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***The Official ATI Radeon HD 5850 / 5870 Reviews and Discussion Thread***

LeJosh said:
After some reading fornowagain, you'll get x16/x16/x16 with eclipse plus as it has the nf200 chip. :) But I can't find anything on it about crossfireX.

Edit - doesn't make a single bit of difference though :p
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Yeah see my edit, I was trying to explain it a little clearer (or not). So the third slot in that review was probably at x4, I think x4 may slow it down a bit, x8 not so much.

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=510
MSI has provided a very good PCI/PCI Express slot layout. The Eclipse features three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (two x16 and one x4 electrical), two PCIe x1 slots and two PCI slots.
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fornowagain said:
Yeah see my edit, I was trying to explain it a little clearer (or not). So the third slot in that review was probably at x4, I think x4 may slow it down a bit, x8 not so much.

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=510
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Is that just the eclipse or eclipse plus as tomshardware said it was x16/x16/x16. Might have been bull I must admit. But from x16/x8/x8 makes no difference. x4 does lower it a little bit.

As we see tri-fire having good scaling. I'm curious as to how a 5870X2 and a single 5870 would run. :) Time will tell, thanks for explaining the pcie stuff. :)
 
LeJosh said:
Is that just the eclipse or eclipse plus as tomshardware said it was x16/x16/x16. Might have been bull I must admit. But from x16/x8/x8 makes no difference. x4 does lower it a little bit.

As we see tri-fire having good scaling. I'm curious as to how a 5870X2 and a single 5870 would run. :) Time will tell, thanks for explaining the pcie stuff. :)
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No problem. Bear in mind the 5870X2 has its very own pci-e bridge, so not quite the same thing, at least not if its pci-e bandwidth starved. The Eclipse plus is a different beast. That would have been a better choice for a reviewers test bench.

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PCI-E Gen Gen2 (3x16, 1x4)
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That was the one I was going on about sorry I should have made that clear. It does look like a very nice board.

I really want a 5870. :( But I'd need to revamp my computer as I'm sitting on a very dull spec in comparison. Good enough though. :p
 
...I'm on G41...

I will either go AM3 or 1136 by christmas me thinks. Or even better if we get money from the mortgage. Again, time will tell. Or I could just steal yours. :p
 
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My cards should come today, does anyone know if the XFX 5870's come with the crossfire connector cables? Are these still even needed?
 
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I think he means the bridges and yes they're still needed. 1 is enough for 2 cards, although you'll often see 2 used. Going by the Sapphire accessories you should get a bridge with each card.

 
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THE MOST POWERFUL CARD ON EARTH!

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That thing is gonna need support struts :eek: Is there a story to accompany the pics?

edit: looks like the X2 has a full width exhaust judging by the position of the DVI sockets.
 
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Apologies as its doubtless been asked somewhere within this thread, but when can we expect the 5850 reviews?
 
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