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** Official omg I just got my 5870 thread **

It's fast and it's new. What else do you need to know?

but have you made the right choice.. have you brought this card too early?....because only you can answer this......

because the GTX 300 will be more powerful than this, as will the 5870 X2 and what happens if we get a GTX 300 X2....will you regret buying this lower spec card?

i'm not too jealous :D, because this is counterbalanced by the feeling that you lot have purchased far too early
 
but have you made the right choice.. have you brought this card too early?....because only you can answer this......

because the GTX 300 will be more powerful than this, as will the 5870 X2 and what happens if we get a GTX 300 X2....will you regret buying this lower spec card?

i'm not too jealous :D, because this is counterbalanced by the feeling that you lot have purchased far too early

Bear in mind a lot of 5870 owners on here will buy the GTX380 also when it comes out in 6 months :D
 
Damn work kept me off this thread all day

Those are some solid temps there, but who is gonna be the first Crysis guinea pig really hoping someone is gonna put it through that soon.

Virus did you get yours yet, how late!!!

I'm itching to get mine ordered now seeing all these great pics! (new rig) but cant do anything til next wednesday baahhhh :D
 
lol hes had no sleep whatsoever I think he deserves them today, he's probably installing them! I know where i'd be if I had 2 delivered I'd be getting wrenchin and fitting em!
 
I dont know who mentioned it earlier (maybe tom) but, I also think there might be quite a few ppl that wont be able to fit into their case.
I didnt realise this before but the 5870 is actually longer than a 4870x2, I am doubtful about whether a 5870 could fit into an antec 900.
 
I dont know who mentioned it earlier (maybe tom) but, I also think there might be quite a few ppl that wont be able to fit into their case.
I didnt realise this before but the 5870 is actually longer than a 4870x2, I am doubtful about whether a 5870 could fit into an antec 900.
It fits in just fine, although you'll need to move the placement of your hard drives if they occupy the middle cage. The card is slightly longer than a 8800GTX.
 
Should receive my sapphire card tomorrow. just found out some other place are also selling around 30 quid less than everybody else here got one for :o but out of stock.

Btw anybody know if the cards can be soft volt modded yet like the ASUS cards?
 
because the GTX 300 will be more powerful than this, as will the 5870 X2 and what happens if we get a GTX 300 X2....will you regret buying this lower spec card?

If the GT300 is significantly faster than a 5870 and not an obscene amount of money then I'll buy a gt300 :-)

In the meantime, I'll enjoy the fastest single gpu card on the market while others wait for the coming of the messiah :-) Time waits for no man - if you hold off buying a computer part because there is something faster around the corner, you'll never buy anything!

Regards X2 cards - I don't care for them - waterblocks are very expensive for them and I always crossfire/sli cards as when I upgrade one goes into the spare machine and one gets sold. In this instance the spare pc gets a 4870 and the other is already on the bay.
 
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One thing is for sure, when the GTX380/360 come out if they are significantly better than the 5870 they will be a lot more money as ATI will drop the price.

Ran vantage on extreme 5870 still @ stock
X8213
GPU score of 8033

3Dmark06 at default
20010
sm2/sm3/cpu
7596/9921/5379

Probably CPU limited I guess for 06, I had hwmonitor running in the background this time and the highest temp the GPU reached was 77C

Crank the 3dmark06 settings up to 1920x1200/4xAA/16xAF and score is 16408, temp reaches 84C
 
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