Mine says that too.
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***The Official ATI Radeon HD 5850 / 5870 Reviews and Discussion Thread***
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Mine says that too.
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For no reason other than the fun of a launch day, I am so very tempted by one of the last 7 Sapphires... MUST RESIST... NO NEED AT ALL!
Must have had better core yields ?, I did see somewhere the 5870 was planned to be first to launch
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looking at competitor prices i'm very pleased with OCUK's pricing.
good work lads.
Have seen a competitor selling @ £349 - now thats a price hike.
good work lads.
Have seen a competitor selling @ £349 - now thats a price hike.
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noticed techpowerup's review are using this setup
surely 32bit vista is holding that system back no?
and without checking, what drivers are others using to test these?
CPU:
Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.8 GHz
(Bloomfield, 8192 KB Cache)
Motherboard:
Gigabyte X58 Extreme
Intel X58 & ICH10R
Memory:
3x 2048 MB Mushkin Redline XP3-12800 DDR3
@ 1520 MHz 8-7-7-16
Harddisk:
WD Raptor 740ADFD 74 GB
Power Supply:
BFG ES-800 800W
Software:
Windows Vista 32-bit SP2
Drivers:
NVIDIA: 186.18
ATI:
Catalyst 9.6
HD 58xx: 8.66 RC6 (AMD recommended reviewer driver)
Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.8 GHz
(Bloomfield, 8192 KB Cache)
Motherboard:
Gigabyte X58 Extreme
Intel X58 & ICH10R
Memory:
3x 2048 MB Mushkin Redline XP3-12800 DDR3
@ 1520 MHz 8-7-7-16
Harddisk:
WD Raptor 740ADFD 74 GB
Power Supply:
BFG ES-800 800W
Software:
Windows Vista 32-bit SP2
Drivers:
NVIDIA: 186.18
ATI:
Catalyst 9.6
HD 58xx: 8.66 RC6 (AMD recommended reviewer driver)
surely 32bit vista is holding that system back no?
and without checking, what drivers are others using to test these?
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Too late
That's saved me about a grand mate. These wouldn't fit in my case, so was speccing an i7 build to go with it, that I really don't need at all.
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Great card just a shame about the noise.
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Hmm, the question will be, will there be any chance of 5850's and unlocking streams, I would say with yields as they are, initial thought would be no, but with yields so low and supposedly 4:1 ratio of 5870/s to 5850's then maybe not. Its quite possible the ones that work, work fine, and the ones that don't work, simply don't work and can't be salvaged as 5850's.
Last gen they had memory to significantly differentiate the performance between the cards, and cost, with the same memory, and probably cores capable of the same speed they had to cut SP's to cut performance. Would be very interesting if we got 5850's that could be unlocked.
Same memory and same memory type, waits for some nut on xtremesys to flash a 5870 bios to a 5850.
Last gen they had memory to significantly differentiate the performance between the cards, and cost, with the same memory, and probably cores capable of the same speed they had to cut SP's to cut performance. Would be very interesting if we got 5850's that could be unlocked.
Same memory and same memory type, waits for some nut on xtremesys to flash a 5870 bios to a 5850.
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news coming in from america.
hd5870 buring out after 1 hours gaming !!
hd5870 buring out after 1 hours gaming !!