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

Bought!

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366)
OCZ Reaper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-14400 (1800MHz) Tri-Channel
Corsair TX850w SLI PSU
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
Roccat Kone V2 Max Customisation Gaming Mouse
Akasa AK-FN053 120mm Smart fan (Blue)
Akasa AK-FN051 80mm Smart Fan (Blue)
Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable

And another 5870 in a month or so when the price drops :-)

Now, lets see how long EK take to get their waterblocks out :-)
 
OMG!!!! look at that 5850 go! getting too excited!

must....... resist........ urge...... to get money out.

Seriously with more mature drivers that 5850 is going to be a beast who would need a 5870 with that going for a lot less
 
Samiad said:
I think it was missed earlier, techPowerUp have NOT tested a 5850, they've only estimated based on :
We simulated the performance of the HD 5850 by taking our HD 5870, reducing the clock speeds and disabling two SIMDs, which results in exactly the same performance as HD 5850.
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A bit sneaky, but to be fair that's pretty much how the 5850 is going to work, going by the specs released, so should be a reasonably accurate representation with any luck.
 
booyaka said:
damn 5850 out of stock already!
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it was never in stock, if you click on the powercolor link it seems to be in stock but no one is 100%.
When the cards went up the only ones that were deff available were the sapphire and xfx 5870.

tbh a member of staff really needs to clear up whether that powercolor 5850 is in stock or not
 
yeah i couldnt justify the extra £100 for the 5870 for my needs, sell my gtx 260 and i will upgrade motherboard and i5/i7 :D

edit: you can buy the powercolor one, the rest say preorder but if you click into it you can buy the powercolor one :)
 
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Phoned OCUK

5850s power color cards are out of stock that buy now is a error on there website
the cards are ment to be arriving at OCUK today/thismorning

but currently there not in there warehouse.

as for my 2x saphire 5870s they will be with me tommrowo WOOOOOOOT :D

also my cards come with DIRT II :D
 
D13 said:
it was never in stock, if you click on the powercolor link it seems to be in stock but no one is 100%.
When the cards went up the only ones that were deff available were the sapphire and xfx 5870.

tbh a member of staff really needs to clear up whether that powercolor 5850 is in stock or not
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I put it in the basket went to the order and pay bit and it was defo showing - out of stock.
 
Ah man, I really hope those 5850's get to OCuK today. Probably would've bought the 5870 if I knew I'd have to wait for the 5850!
 
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