Quote Originally Posted by Kimi View Post
I am thinking to buy a 5870 or 5850 for gaming instead of upgrading to a 1156 platform. Right now i have an E8400 E0 and a HD4870 512 MB. How much should I OC my E8400 so it won't bottleneck a 5870 or 5850? I use my PC for gaming, Internet browsing and watching movies. No program that require the power of a Quad.

*I use 1920x1080 resolution.
Buy a good air cooler OC to around 3.8-4.0Ghz, at this level you are around the performance of a 3.6-3.8Ghz i3.

Quote Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides View Post
Today is the 15th, are we REALLY not going to have any reviews before release?

So early consumers will be blind buying?
We got benchmarks so early consumers are not blind buyers, the 5870 seems more or less like a 4870 x2 in performance. There is still like a week for release maybe we will get a review sooner than one may think.

Quote Originally Posted by villa1n View Post
On top of that FUDs solution is to use downclocked 5850 cores... highly unlikely since the cores are shader neutered this time around... I think FUD is adding numbers together and making up some news for hits because aside those leaked benches info is sparse.
lol, ya they took the nvidia's solution for the GTX 295 "2*GTX 275 instead of 2*GTX 285 aka asus mars " and applied it to ati's card. 5870 x2 with 5850 core's.