It's not photoshopped, I made it in MS paint. The 5870 six & 5870 vanilla have the same shroud, fan, pcb, & gpu. All that differs between the two is 6 mini dp vs. 2dvi,dp,hdmi, 2gb vs. 1gb 5gbps samsung.4ns, and 8+6pin vs. 2x6pin
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Jesus, they keep reducing the size and power consumption on all other components only to transfer all that to the card. But n/e who, when when when, and will the AC 4870X2 cooler fit? Finally, I can buy something this long. All hail 5870X2.
It looks like 15-18" long. It's kinda heavy.
ati Really Beats Nvidia :)
Any source about the above.
The HD 5870 is 10.5" long, the same length as HD 4870 X2 and single GPU nVidia GTX 8800.
I had Mid Tower Antec P160W and the cards did fit in with at least 1cm to spare.
Anyway now I have the CosmosS case so the size is not going to be any problem, even if much longer.
prepare for it.....
its over 9000!!
I don't think there's a PLX chip onboard...
After driver issues with the 4870x2 I'll be skipping this card.
Although I hope ATI can work out most of the bugs berfore they released this X2.
There's room for one:
http://i36.tinypic.com/11l79jt.jpg
I don't think so.
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Holy sh**:eek:
Depends on your definition of play. If 30-35fps at 1920x1200xVH with no AA works for you, even 1 HD5870 can "play Crysis." If you are talking about 60+ fps, a pair of 5870X2s should handle it even with terrible CF scaling; I think Triple SLI GTX 285s are in the mid/low 50 fps range.
They better get crossfire working w/ eyefinity pretty fast. That's going to be a killer requirement for multi-monitor setups.
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7902/62915902.jpg
HD58x0X2 :cool: - notice soldering space for 2x8pin PCIe, but it's using 1x6 and 1x8
any pics of the other side?
Glad they fixed their BIOS on the 58XX, about time they figure that memory caused the heat and adjust it's speed to 300Mhz when Idle. Been doing the Rivatuner Autotuning fix for a while after getting my 4870X2, 40c Idle 67c Load on stock cooler :D. Before doing that i had a room heater as others mentioned, 78c idle 105c Load...
I got my Accelero Xtreme cooler for it in June, temps are now 37 Idle and 55 Load @default powerplay clocks and SILENT, yes that stock cooler sucks and would hope my AC cooler still fit the new X2! :D