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Hi,

Is it guaranteed that it will be in stock on the 6th of May?

Do you deliver to the Republic of Ireland and/or Northern Ireland? If yes, what would the prices be for the above card?

Thanks.
 
Shamikebab said:
I don't understand the ATI naming system, how could the 5850 be faster than the 6870?

I thought the first digit was generation, 2nd digit was sub generation and the last two indicated power (30 being low, 50 being medium, 70 being high and 90 being top end)
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Because for some strange reason, AMD jiggled it around for the 6 series. The 5 series had the 5850, 5870 and the 5970 as the x2 version. For the 6 series, they basically added +1 to the second digit, so the 5850 became the 6950, the 5870 became the 6970, and the 5970 became the the 6990.

Some say it was a ploy to trick people into buying the new cards assuming the naming had stayed the same, much like you did.

Side note, how much better would one of these be compared with my 5770? Its starting to struggle a little at 1920x1200, and I was planning on waiting for some 2Gb cards as graphics memory is fairly important at these resolutions, but at this price I would be tempted to use this as a stepping stone!
 
meathman 007 said:
Hi,

Is it guaranteed that it will be in stock on the 6th of May?

Do you deliver to the Republic of Ireland and/or Northern Ireland? If yes, what would the prices be for the above card?

Thanks.
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I rang your sales line and they said it would be about £12 to Ireland which is fine.

Just one question on the card itself. Does it come with any connection leads (DVI etc) and/or power leads to connect to my PSU?

Thanks.
 
meathman 007 said:
I rang your sales line and they said it would be about £12 to Ireland which is fine.

Just one question on the card itself. Does it come with any connection leads (DVI etc) and/or power leads to connect to my PSU?

Thanks.
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This review lists it as having:

Graphics card
Driver CD + Documentation
DVI Adapter
Mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort Adapter
2x PCI-Express Power Cable
3x Voltage measurement cable
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Further to my above question, how would this card perform compared with a 6950 unlocked to 6970? The 6970 has the 2Gb of ram, and has more shaders and so on, while the 6870 has more raw power, and lots of overclocking potential, and is slightly cheaper. But the 1Gb of memory is just making me hesitate :(
 
To give you guys some sort of idea what you are looking at here

This is as close to a 6870 Lightning as you will ever see. It has many of the same components on a custom PCB with the same cooler.

It has crazy OC headroom, so much so that we have created a special BIOS that breaks the CCC limitation of R6870 Hawk, changing the maximum oc limit from 1000/1250 to 1400/1500. With the triple overvoltage support of Afterburner, GPU clock of R6870 Hawk can go to 1050MHz easily and improve performance.

Obviously this BIOS is not factory flashed and will be a "use at your own risk" release but I will make it available soon to those of you who want to give it a go ;)

With this sort of OC headroom, comparing it to any existing standard card is a bit silly :p
 
ScottiB said:
To give you guys some sort of idea what you are looking at here

This is as close to a 6870 Lightning as you will ever see. It has many of the same components on a custom PCB with the same cooler.

It has crazy OC headroom, so much so that we have created a special BIOS that breaks the CCC limitation of R6870 Hawk, changing the maximum oc limit from 1000/1250 to 1400/1500. With the triple overvoltage support of Afterburner, GPU clock of R6870 Hawk can go to 1050MHz easily and improve performance.

Obviously this BIOS is not factory flashed and will be a "use at your own risk" release but I will make it available soon to those of you who want to give it a go ;)

With this sort of OC headroom, comparing it to any existing standard card is a bit silly :p
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For a PC gaming NOOB, can you explain what impact it will have having no Cuda and Physx on this card?

Does it only impact on gaming on not on general PC tasks?
 
physx support means that the card can be used to calculate game physics but doing this on a single card configuration impacts FPS, many people disable physx or use a second card if they want good performance. So basically, in Physx supported games you will often have lower CPU usage but also lower FPS when using a single Nvidia card.

CUDA is more of a micro-architecture thing intended to allow the GPU to act as a CPU for certain tasks. Not really a game related feature.
 
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Greg0986 said:
WIll the payment be taken when stock arrives or as soon as you order it? What are the chances of stock arriving early?
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Anyone? :rolleyes:

Also, when you pre-order it, Should I just leave all the delivery setting to normal because it says delivery on the 28/04/11 for next day delivery but stock doesn't arrive till the 06/05/11?
 
ScottiB said:
To give you guys some sort of idea what you are looking at here

This is as close to a 6870 Lightning as you will ever see. It has many of the same components on a custom PCB with the same cooler.

It has crazy OC headroom, so much so that we have created a special BIOS that breaks the CCC limitation of R6870 Hawk, changing the maximum oc limit from 1000/1250 to 1400/1500. With the triple overvoltage support of Afterburner, GPU clock of R6870 Hawk can go to 1050MHz easily and improve performance.

Obviously this BIOS is not factory flashed and will be a "use at your own risk" release but I will make it available soon to those of you who want to give it a go ;)

With this sort of OC headroom, comparing it to any existing standard card is a bit silly :p
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This sounds very interesting...shame there isn't a similar 6950 version. This card could be more than good enough to max out what I want to play until the 7xxx cards are out....
 
review samples have been available for a while but mass production was delayed for a couple of weeks.
 
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