Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread

Shocky-FM · 12 Sep 2009 at 12:48

CK61938 said:
a dissing failure of pure epic proportions...

I thought it was funny, good effect imo not that it takes any effort with kyle, he doesn’t need any assistance to look like a fanboy. Plus all the people I have marked on my ignore list appear to sticking up for him, fanboys tend to stick together on here, strength in numbers I guess.

But enough with teasing the fanboys, why are there no benchmarks for this card yet? Since when do all the review sites respect the NDA?

hernaldo · 12 Sep 2009 at 12:50

Duran said:
yeah you got a problem? that was my experience with ati at that time but of course i'm going to give them another chance sooner or later. when you buy the top cards from both ati and nvidia you can come as well and give us your impressions.

Pot Kettle Black

(and a hypocrit too)

kylew · 12 Sep 2009 at 12:50

Shocky-FM said:
I thought it was funny, good effect imo not that it takes any effort with kyle, he doesn’t need any assistance to look like a fanboy. Plus all the people I have marked on my ignore list appear to sticking up for him, fanboys tend to stick together on here, strength in numbers I guess.

But enough with teasing the fanboys, why are there no benchmarks for this card yet? Since when do all the review sites respect the NDA?

How's it hanging ebilcake?

LoadsaMoney · 12 Sep 2009 at 12:55

Didaco said:
sorry if this info has been previously posted but its new for me and might save people sifting through like 58 pages
it looks like we are gonna be waiting till the end of this mounth
http://vr-zone.com/articles/-rumour-amd-dx11-cypress-is-radeon-hd-5870--hd-5850/7469.html?doc=7469
dont ask me about the reliability though its just a rumour

Yeah been posted before, its wrong, the cards are due out the 23rd.

Fenris · 12 Sep 2009 at 12:56

Shocky-FM said:
Since when do all the review sites respect the NDA?

Since they don't want to get sued?

ebilcake · 12 Sep 2009 at 12:56

kylew said:
How's it hanging ebilcake?

Good, thanks.

Fenris said:
Since they don't want to get sued?

Never stopped results being leaked before in some form or another.

mrbios · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:02

michaelmk86 said:
congratulations Kylew you win the fanboy of the year award!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=18043396

Your a bit deluded really, your the biggest nvidia fanboy i've seen on here in a long long time from the looks of your past 30 posts

either stay neutral or stay out.

kylew · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:06

mrbios said:
Your a bit deluded really, your the biggest nvidia fanboy i've seen on here in a long long time from the looks of your past 30 posts

either stay neutral or stay out.

To be honest, I think he doesn't care either way, I think he's just trolling to get reactions really.

I've seen him over at other forums with a completely different attitude.

kylew · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:08

ebilcake said:
Good, thanks.

Never stopped results being leaked before in some form or another.

That was quick

Lightnix · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:09

ebilcake said:
Good, thanks.

Never stopped results being leaked before in some form or another.

I think most of the places that usually make card reviews only got the cards a couple of days ago (on the 10th), a decent review can take a couple of weeks to put together. I suspect some of the lower-tier sites (vr-zone, chiphell, expreview, maybe tweaktown, etc.) will release benchmarks to get some hits in a couple of days, though.

Dazboots · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:11

so does this meen if i want to run 3x monitors 1 monitor has to have a display port on it. doh

Shocky-FM · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:14

Lightnix said:
I think most of the places that usually make card reviews only got the cards a couple of days ago (on the 10th), a decent review can take a couple of weeks to put together. I suspect some of the lower-tier sites (vr-zone, chiphell, expreview, maybe tweaktown, etc.) will release benchmarks to get some hits in a couple of days, though.

Here’s hoping something turns up in a couple of days, starting to get a bit impatient now.

Trifid · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:16

Rroff said:
That multi monitor setup fails to inspire me - as the useable distance so you could take the whole image in would be indistinguishable from a high res projector image - which has no distracting bezels... .

I think you've missed the point a bit. For a non-flightsim gamer 6 monitors is not so good but 3 monitors is perfect to fill your peripheral vision.

Look at this video, and stare at the centre screen: http://www.vimeo.com/2678373 1:45 in - look at how the sense of speed is vastly improved. Your much more immersed in the action. And if he had the real mirrors enabled he'd also be able to see his side mirror.

Do the same for a game of counter strike but this time you can keep an eye out on a much wider range, like you can in real life. It's all about immersion into the game.

MR.B · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:16

michaelmk86 is a bit of a troll but he's right about kylew, and we all know this.

kylew said:
To think this guy's 26 as well eh? Unless the 86 represents his IQ? I know what I think

You're talking about IQ and yet you think someone born in 1986 would be 26 now??
They would be 23 or 22 depending what time of year.

Thats so good I almost feel like putting that in my sig...

Shocky-FM said:
I thought it was funny, good effect imo not that it takes any effort with kyle, he doesn’t need any assistance to look like a fanboy. Plus all the people I have marked on my ignore list appear to sticking up for him, fanboys tend to stick together on here, strength in numbers I guess.

I was about to say that but see you already did, theres a little ATI 'fanboy' gang that roam these forums.
Sad really, being a fanboy for any company.

TheRedZealot · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:17

4870 just bluescreened and fan whacked up to full on restart with a black screen

just crapped myself but it seems to be working now. roll on 58xx

kablooey · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:17

Dazboots said:
so does this meen if i want to run 3x monitors 1 monitor has to have a display port on it. doh

I think you can just use an adapter.

It doesn't look like you can run CF and EI at the same time, hopefully that will get sorted with drivers.

edgedemon · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:20

=VTA=MANFACE said:
I hope so. Nv milked us with the 8800 series.

ATI have been very customer friendly with prices and performance, and made Nv drop their very high prices.

Not really - how many people are still running 8800GT's - at their price point, these cards were unbeatable. I still have mine, but dx11 will finally tempt me to upgrade to something else..

Duran · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:21

kylew said:
To be honest, I think he doesn't care either way, I think he's just trolling to get reactions really.

I've seen him over at other forums with a completely different attitude.

you know whats the funny part? michaelmk(and probably me as well)is getting 5870 crossfire if the early benchmarks are confirmed on the other hand you'll just keep drooling and defending ati for no reason.

chaparral · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:23

edgedemon said:
Not really - how many people are still running 8800GT's - at their price point, these cards were unbeatable. I still have mine, but dx11 will finally tempt me to upgrade to something else..

Same here...Been using my 8800gtx SLI setup for over 2 years (Order Date: 21 Mar, 07) and it still rans all the games i have tryed fine at 1920x1200

Alexrose1uk · 12 Sep 2009 at 13:24

Im interested to see how those prior mentioned Broadway mobile chips turn out; especially given the low idle power usage predicted from these new chips [well for a high end gaming chip]; could be rather nice for gaming laptops.

I doubt I'll be able to get them, because my M17 is MXM2.1 not MXM3, but if the performance is there, and an MXM2.1 version becomes available, I'd certainly be interested; they might end up a fair chunk faster than the current 4 series desktop cards as well which would be...nice

A real shakeup of the mobile market would be appreciated; I mean the current fastest cards are the GTX280Ms (basically an 9800 Desktop card) or the 4850Ms (basically 4830s), if the new broadway chips can remain cool, while running decent clocks without cutting the core to shreds, they'd be very welcome amongst performance laptop owners; especially if they become more widely available than at current, its not like the current penryn architecture core2 mobile chips at decent clocks are going to be massive bottlenecks even without without I7(et al) based mobile cores; laptops age in the GPU department much faster than anywhere else.