The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[Jamesrt2004]

If that's the pic of a single HD5870, I can't imagine the lenght of a hypothetical HD5870x2, maybe 12"?

ahh that cards only very slightly if not the same size as 4870 so i expect it do be the same as the 4870x2 atm...
you can see if you get a pic of a 4870 from google, from a similar angle, line them up under each other and you can see =)

It might but i think it would be worth it, they are going to charge $399 for a chip with 256bit memory interface, doesnt look too good. To have 2GB of ram without more bandwidth might be a bottleneck.

no.. no bottleneck hence why the 4890 2gb cards are fine.. honestly you could up the clock 200mhz on the memory and no difference in performance maybe 1/2 % the performance was all in the core clocks etc..

is it me or is that vent/exhaust for the card a little small?

Nah it's fine the vapour card iirc, uses half slot vent, the difference it makes is neglible so its all good