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Quote: Originally Posted by mattspalace Everything actually. Nvidia doesn't have a new card out, AMD does.. any potential split in demand is nearly all going to AMD at the moment. I just called ya a fanboy cuz I know it gets a rise out of ya. Doesn't bother me one bit, cause it just ain't true. Once the 5870 hits MSRP I'll be buying one myself. If that's Nvidia fanboyism, color me green

Good to hear. I actually paid more for my last card, GTX 285 FTW, than I've paid for any of the four 5870's I have. I just need a new mobo with four slots now, or sell one and go with three in tri-fire. Although it's all overkill once you pass two. Or I might go with a 5970 + 5870.. I need to search out some benchies for that combo.. 5970's are even harder find, and are price gouged even more.

There is actually a thermalright cooler that points up , by that i mean , regularly a cooler takes a bottom slot below the card , this thing has heat pipes bend upwards so that the cooler takes up the the slot above the card . am not sure of the exact model but am sure google will assist

Wow that sucks. Where did you buy it from? Did the vendor site have a picture or anything, or list the model number? And non-standard mounting holes? I was under the impression they had been carried over from the 4800 series as far as that goes. Maybe it was only the 5850 and 5870 that can take existing heatsinks?

HD4890 has more horsepower, so I would go with that. Here is a review for you to chew on: http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...review-test/14 For the record I just searched 5770 reviews in google and chose Guru3d's review.

i had read something that one of the buddy buddy companies close to ati (saphire or HIS) has a version heatsink that looks like this new standard version but its different getting better temps, although not hugely better

yeah. I dont want to pump too much money into it. Im trying to sell it so i can build a new system. Just wana spruce it up a bit

Well, I have only RMA'd 2 motherboards, in the 12k I have spent on this hobby since I got into it. I would not feel bad about sending the card in, not 1 bit. I have read of a few others, with my particular Asus card, that had the exact same troubles as me. I did not say I would RMA the card, because that wont help, because the other fellows, still had the same problem when their cards came back. LIke the guys who had 295s like mine,...

One thing I noticed about my 5870 is that it is very quiet. My 4870 X2 would rev up immediately and was twice as loud as the rest of my rig. My 5870 however never goes above the rest of it, you can't tell from the sound when it's running a game or idling at desktop, there's just no difference. This card is amazing and I haven't even touched the ocing yet, it's much better than my 4870 X2.

Yeah the 5870 looses 1% at 8x 2.0 (or 16x 1.x) PCIe. Your cpu is the cause of your low scores, that GPU is far, far overpowered for that cpu and 1280x1024. The only time default 3dmark06 is really relevant is if you have an old monitor and you actually game at 1280x1024 (i do ).