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

[TOL247]

Mine says 35 degrees at idle fan at default. Great card btw.

 

[magicroundabout]

he's now set the fan to 34% (can barely hear it apparently) and is now @ 29ºc

 

[craig3000]

mine says 35 degrees at idle fan at default.

Well that means no need to change to a manual fan setup, yay!

 

[Vakas]

Doing the same, getting my 5870 tomorrow and going to sell my 4870.

how much is a 4870 worth now?

 

[Vakas]

Well I couldn't resist, sold the 260 and picked this beast up, test her out after, she looks great in the case..

So you got it to fit in you Mid Tower case

 

[Jakus]

not impossible.

my mate has just installed his and said



can't wait to get mine installed

Ok , I see people don't read what was posted !!, The OP said he "loaded it up" and got 36 degrees

Clearly You Guys understand loading it up as "installing" whereas "loaded up " Hardware is under working Load....not idle

Still quite reasonable temp for a big GFX card that maybe spends 80% of it's life at idle and nice it comes factory STD like that without bios editing Just hope the load switching is totally seamless unlike older 3XXX powerplay !

 

[RavenXXX2]

So you got it to fit in you Mid Tower case

Yeah lian li cases..made for the enthusiast..

 

[maxilive]

I love that case, so well laid out. Mine has also been performing really well a huge upgrade over my 3870 (both in FPS and size)

 

[IceShock]

thread should be called

*** Official, i have photographic evidence that i own a block of porn ***

great thread.

 

[faugusztin]

Got my HD5870 today...

1. Big. Damn big. Even compared to my Palit HD4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition :

2. I hate the fact that the holes for fixing the card NEVER fits to the holes in case - i was "forced" to use only 1 thumbscrew to fix the card.

3. Silence in idle. Just WOW .

4. Minimum FPS @ 1920x1200 max AA max AF max details got above 100 FPS.

5. Power usage in watts - another WOW :

Setup / Idle / Furmark / OCCT / OCCT+Furmark
E8400 + HD4870 1GB / 190 / - / - / - (my old setup i had before)
I5 750 + HD4870 1GB / 160 / 250 / 235 / 306
I5 750 + HD5870 / 117 / 303 / 187 / 303 ( i guess the Furmark with this card pushed the CPU much more, so there was no power difference between Furmark and OCCT+Furmark run).

The final picture (sorry for the dust and fingerprints, i will clean up when i will get the new CPU cooler or kit for Thermalright, whatever comes first) :

 

[kmufc77]

Well I couldn't resist, sold the 260 and picked this beast up, test her out after, she looks great in the case..

Thats one tidy case,i wish i could get my cables like that ,and ive tried with many psu over the years

 

[Orangey]

Tidy cables but methinks Kim & Aggie would have something to say about the dust

 

[ViRuS2k]

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/56695/Asus.HD5870.1024.090915.html

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK PEOPLE!

this asus official refrence 5870 bios has higher CCC clock limits 1200 core 1400 memory instead of default 900 core 1300 memory
flash it to your 5870s and never worry about not hitting the max your graphics cards can do when overclocking.

this bios will also let your cards keep there atpowerplay intact when overclocking the cards with MSI overclocking tool instead of useing that crap AMD GPU tool as that tool breaks ATIpowerPLAY.

 

[kmufc77]

Here is my poor effort lol:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8903/pict0011c.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2128/pict0011k.jpg

Awful cable management

 

[craig3000]

Here is my poor effort lol:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8903/pict0011c.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2128/pict0011k.jpg

Awful cable management

I think I might get myself a modular PSU next time try to reduce cables, there so damm annoying

 

[kmufc77]

I think I might get myself a modular PSU next time try to reduce cables, there so damm annoying

from my pics you would never think i had a modular psu!,must have another go at the cables soon

 

[wiak]

Sounds awesome Thorpedo! I'm quite jealous! I love building a new system. I have a spare PSU and my 4850 lying around now... really tempted to build a whole system just to fit them in

So what is everyone using to test out their new 5870s? I tried Crysis Warhead, but it crashed. Also tested GRID, and it was exactly the same Anyone found a massive improvement in a game?

so you forgot to reinstall windows?, didnt you?

 

[kmufc77]

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/56695/Asus.HD5870.1024.090915.html

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK PEOPLE!

this asus official refrence 5870 bios has higher CCC clock limits 1200 core 1400 memory instead of default 900 core 1300 memory
flash it to your 5870s and never worry about not hitting the max your graphics cards can do when overclocking.

this bios will also let your cards keep there atpowerplay intact when overclocking the cards with MSI overclocking tool instead of useing that crap AMD GPU tool as that tool breaks ATIpowerPLAY.

have you used this on your cards?

 

[ViRuS2k]

have you used this on your cards?

not, yet im still researching if atiflash support cypress yet.
i dont think it does.
becuse i cant find the dam thing lol

 

[craig3000]

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/56695/Asus.HD5870.1024.090915.html

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK PEOPLE!

this asus official refrence 5870 bios has higher CCC clock limits 1200 core 1400 memory instead of default 900 core 1300 memory
flash it to your 5870s and never worry about not hitting the max your graphics cards can do when overclocking.

this bios will also let your cards keep there atpowerplay intact when overclocking the cards with MSI overclocking tool instead of useing that crap AMD GPU tool as that tool breaks ATIpowerPLAY.

AMD GPU TOOL breaks atipowerplay? Lame oh well won't be using that, I'll just use the MSi thing