Here you go, one very expensive pyramid - ATI's Flagship Card!

Surveyor · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:39

Phoenixdancer said:
Im a student and i get 2.6k in may

Plus i said if i get a good price for my 5970+block.. Soo if i got £350ish i would only have to spend £150 (the 6990 might drop in price by may)

so not much money IF the performance is worth it at my res

Good to see our tax being put to good use for your education :rolleyes:

Omega · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:47

I bet they will still sell out by the end of the week -_-

trigger-happy · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:49

wait wut? I can buy two amd 6950's unlock it and then xfire it, it should then meet the performance of the amd 6990?

Marvin · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:51

trigger-happy said:
wait wut? I can buy two amd 6850's unlock it and then xfire it, it should then meet the performance of the amd 6990?

If you meant 6950s then yeah. Crazy isn't it.

trigger-happy · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:54

Marvin said:
If you meant 6950s then yeah. Crazy isn't it.

yea thats what I meant.

413x · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:57

i have 2 unlocked 6950s at 880 core and 1375 memory at tad over volt, less than 6970 stock volts and using the shaders of the 6970

Pr0SteR · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:06

If and only IF the price is right on "here", I will consider it getting this time, rather than elsewhere (like it happened with 5970), come on people, do not disappoint.

Squark · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:13

The card's a foot long :eek:

Cleeecooo · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:15

Squark said:
The card's a foot long

Like my......

Subway sandwich

GJ02 · 8 Mar 2011 at 05:43

Need to change the description slightly Gibbo

there is no card more powerful in existance on the planter compared to the HD 6990.

infernox · 8 Mar 2011 at 07:49

700W minimum PSU required (1000-1200W recommended for Crossfire with with four 8 Pin connectors

HOLY NAN ! :O

RavenXXX2 · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:08

The Radeon HD 5970 was a loud card, the GTX 580 SLI was even louder, but nothing tops the 6990.

HEADRAT · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:09

trigger-happy said:
wait wut? I can buy two amd 6950's unlock it and then xfire it, it should then meet the performance of the amd 6990?

I thought there was a benefit of the way the 6990 deals with its memory in Eyefinity over dual 6950, or maybe I'm wrong

Vega · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:27

I was hoping the 6990s would be pretty sweet but it ends up being kinda disappointing. I think they tried to go too far with one card. I've read most of the 6990 reviews with some cliff notes:

Expensive, hot (some reviews the 6990 actually shut down the computer from overheating), incredibly loud, microstutter noted, poor 2x 6990 scaling (quad-fire) in many titles.

Basically you are better off in virtually every way if you opt for traditional single GPU card X-Fire/SLI setups. Pretty much what I expected. One review had the 6990 noise level twice that of GTX580 SLI setup. Thats just lol.

One of my favorite review quotes: "In order to keep the card at 90 degrees or less, the fan then speeds up to 3600 RPM, or what I call Charlie Sheen F-18 mode."

MooMoo444 · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:29

70+ decibels

Oh lord

AdamN · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:42

That's pretty. Call I get a call of Crossfire anyone?! :cool:

CK61938 · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:43

Yowzers...so erm...should I cancel the order of 4 of these then?

In all seriousness, that is just madness. I mean ok, I understand the pricing side of things. But the reviews really don't leave much in the way of "wowness". Think I will stick with my 4870X2 for a little while longer. Thank you.

AdamN · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:44

+1 On the noise thing... Don't you all like the sound of the world coming to an end while playing BF2 or COD?

CK61938 · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:45

Surveyor said:
Good to see our tax being put to good use for your education

And they're the ones complaining about how expensive student fees are :rolleyes:

RavenXXX2 · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:46

AdamN said:
+1 On the noise thing... Don't you all like the sound of the world coming to an end while playing BF2 or COD?

Guess it could add to the immersion when flying jets in BF3...