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***The Official ATI Radeon HD 5850 / 5870 Reviews and Discussion Thread***
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Caporegime
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they are $379, not $399, and thats a hair under £265 if they were bought in the past week/two at an exchange rate of 1.65 which its been roughly over the past month, only the last couple days have seen the rate drop to 1.61, which is still only £270 INC vat.
They shouldn't be close to £300, thats over a 10% bump on their RRP.
Well Techpower says $399.
I very much doubt it will, DP - DVI is not as simple to convert a HDMI - DVI. They dont share the same electrical signal.
The adapters are more expensive, about £15.
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Anandtech say $379, no idea which is right tbh, though even though Anand aren't as good as they used to be, I'd still take them over techreport and most other sites.
AS for DP-DVI, as said doubtful, its a shame they haven't done a dongle esque thing, I'd far prefer lower noise with a wider/better exhaust than a crapload of connectors I simply don't need, frankly two options, a break out dongle to attach to another pci slot with more connectors or a adaptor of some kind to give more signals would be more useful as the majority of people will only ever use 1 screen, quite a few 2 screens and next to no one will use 3 screens anyway. Oh well, when I do get one(or the x2/5850) I'm sure after testing it works the first thing will be to whip off the shroud, disconnect the fan and stick a silent 120mm on it for instantly silent and far superior cooling, as I've done for every card in the past 4 years Nvidia or ATi and never failed to have a silent, overclocked and cooler card by doing so.
Who decided shrouds and **** fans were a good idea?
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Soldato
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Just ordered the Powercolour 5850 as it was showing 10+ in stock hopwfully i will get it tomorroow... 
Its just not really worth £300, its not really worth £270 tbh, and if TSMC didn't suck and they were getting not far off double the yields we'd see a much much lower price
I agree it's all about minimum framerates but the above statement is wrong. It doesnt matter how much cheaper ATI could have made the 5870 for, they would still charge $400 for it.
Indeed.
From a business point of view they have priced these great. When Nvidia brings out their new cards they can just drop the prices and release the HD5870X2 and wack Nvidia again.
I really want a HD5850 but can't justify buying one.
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well im on the fence now,right in the middle of a new build and these new cards are not all they are cracked up to be i read,so i got to make a decison on what route to take from now as this is a long time build and not going to upgrade within the next 2-3yrs,so where do i go?
HARDOCP interesting comment;
We already have retail video cards on their way to us for evaluation. ASUS is sending us their new EAH5870/G/2DIS/1GD5/A, which is a Radeon HD 5870 at AMD specified frequencies. Uniquely, the ASUS EAH5870 will utilize voltage tweaking technology in software to overvolt the GPU allowing possibly very high overclocks. We will certainly be testing this out with great focus. The ASUS EAH5870 will be selling for $379.99.
We already have retail video cards on their way to us for evaluation. ASUS is sending us their new EAH5870/G/2DIS/1GD5/A, which is a Radeon HD 5870 at AMD specified frequencies. Uniquely, the ASUS EAH5870 will utilize voltage tweaking technology in software to overvolt the GPU allowing possibly very high overclocks. We will certainly be testing this out with great focus. The ASUS EAH5870 will be selling for $379.99.
Looks like I'll be waiting for a used 5850
Why? 200 sheets is pretty good I reckon.
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