The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[Lightman]

My Sapphire on the way ...

I have a request to anyone with ASUS HD5870! Rip the BIOS and post it! I will most likely need Voltage Tweak for this weekend!
I just hope ATiFlash/WinFlash recognises these new cards

Regarding obvious bottlenecks for HD 5870:
- memory bandwidth
- probably still 1triangle/clock for geometry (CF can do 2/clock)
- immature drivers (similar internals to RV770, yet different which means some optimizations can't be transferred/new can be created)

[OC Nub]

anyone trying to order a 5870, newegg has xfx 5870 as of 5:20 pm eastern time today. will sell out fast.

[Jowy Atreides]

OK, so like a 5870 costs around $700 in the uk

off. Seriously, that's ing gay.

[{WFH}+SLAYER+]

anyone trying to order a 5870, newegg has xfx 5870 as of 5:20 pm eastern time today. will sell out fast.

yea should of waited, I seen the pre-orders on TigerDirect in the morning and jumped on that XFX. Oh well, I can wait a week or 2 for it, at least I get 40$ cash back with that order, so thats one good thing about it

[Andrea deluxe]

virtual vapor x (maybe the pcb is under costruction)

real vapor x with pcb reference

[xXxDieselxXx]

OMG! The Jizz edition! I want one!

[rkgriffin]

yea should of waited, I seen the pre-orders on TigerDirect in the morning and jumped on that XFX. Oh well, I can wait a week or 2 for it, at least I get 40$ cash back with that order, so thats one good thing about it

I thought the same thing but Newegg charges me tax so TigerDirect was $80+ cheaper.

[Origin_Unknown]

OK, so like a 5870 costs around $700 in the uk

off. Seriously, that's ing gay.

300.00 GBP

=

489.858 USD

http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduc...odid=GX-214-SP

and thats with rounding up to the nearest hundred.

[lithpiperpilot]

My asus 5870 is on the way. Should get here tomorrow

[Jowy Atreides]

300.00 GBP

=

489.858 USD

http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduc...odid=GX-214-SP

and thats with rounding up to the nearest hundred.

£379 with 15 nwd shipping
that's nearly 400 pounds

What's the difference? Well ocers suck and don't have stock, they're lying. What they do is keep the price low on out of stock parts and pump the price of what they have.

so you can look and say 'holy sht that's a rip off, but at least they have other vendors at a reasonable price'

..oh wait..

[Origin_Unknown]

£379 with 15 nwd shipping

that's nearly 400 pounds

£298.99 inc VAT
£259.99 ex VAT

im assuming that nwd means next working day...

so thats DPD Next Day Parcel £9.00




either im wrong as its late or its not ANYWHERE near the $700 you said above ... or the 400 with your revised random figure?

[Jowy Atreides]

£298.99 inc VAT
£259.99 ex VAT

im assuming that nwd means next working day...

so thats DPD Next Day Parcel £9.00




either im wrong as its late or its not ANYWHERE near the $700 you said above ... or the 400 with your revised random figure?

..not in stock

they keep the prices low on cards they say they have in stock and pump the ones they actually do

only novatech had legit sales of a card at a decent price (£320) and they were nearly all preorders

And I bought 2 of them for nearly 400 each after getting ing fed up of order delays, I placed 8 orders before I managed to get REAL in stock
so bite me

...maybe you forget that small independant retailers overcharge and the fact that all the big retailers right now sold their cards out in minutes means buying online from small, lesser known stores

again, bite me

[Origin_Unknown]

so how is that nearly 700$ as stated earlier? that is the point.... and because you paid more to get them now what's that got to do with the price of fish?

[eric66]

anybody played with voltage ? i wonder whats the highest clock with volt tweak since asus has program hopefully we will see some results soon c'mon xtreme ppl :P

[***Deimos***]

There was link above somewhere rumouring about 1000Mhz @1.3V (over std 1.1V), and 1050Mhz @1.4something...
IMHO, that's crazy. We're talking 40nm here, not 130nm Northwood P4. If at std volt its 180W, OC with overvolt can easily be pushing 300W+.

Hope you have big copper pot and big tank of LN2

[dekruyter]

Just ordered XFX 5870 from Newegg.....quickly out of stock minutes later. Will report back after it's installed. I like the XFX warranty...we'll see about any good or bad fan noise. Can't wait.




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[gmod]

are they coming out with a 5870x2 too...if so might be time for me to move to the darkside from my 2 295's

[rkgriffin]

ati 5850 at zipzoomfly. Also have the 5870 instock if anyone is still looking. Please note that they seem to add $20 to any card that is in stock.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...dlist=celebros

[Mabyboi]

are they coming out with a 5870x2 too...if so might be time for me to move to the darkside from my 2 295's

ill buy one of thoe when you put em up for sale

[Zorlac]

I got the XFX 5870 from Newegg today. No tax, Bing cashback and a $20 off promo code.

Anyone heard if Thermalright will have a cooling solution soon for the 5870?

[GoldenTiger]

I got the XFX 5870 from Newegg today. No tax, Bing cashback and a $20 off promo code.

Anyone heard if Thermalright will have a cooling solution soon for the 5870?

Doh I forgot to use Bing... what was the promo code though?

My XFX is coming in tomorrow, already shipped via overnight delivery .

[thatdude90210]

Tigerdirect currently has the XFX 5870 listed as "order today, ships today" instead of the pre-order they had this morning. I just ordered one, after just missing it at newegg earlier this afternoon.

[JohnJohn]

heh... check this out

Why is AMD focusing so much on DX11 when most games are on DX9 console ports?

Today and over the life of the Radeon HD 5000 series, dozens of triple A titles will leverage DirectX11 features. If NV was able to produce a DirectX11 card today, they'd be delivering a much different narrative on DirectX 11 to the press. If NV really believes that DirectX11 doesn't matter, then we challenge them to say that publically, on the record.


Aren't they punishing PC gamers by pushing out the schedule of PC titles such as Dirt 2 in order to support DX11?

Proprietary standards punish gamers, not industry standards like DirectX11. Why is NVIDIA punishing gamers by putting in proprietary and closed standards like PhysX in games?


When are GPU-accelerated Havoc titles going to be shipped? Do they have a list of games that will support Havoc?

PhysX has been around for years and years, but today, GPU-accelerated PhysX titles are still in the single digits. The physics experiences that many of those titles delivered have disappointed gamers and were widely panned by the press worldwide. GPU accelerated game physics will only be accepted in the marketplace when industry standards are embraced.

AMD respond to NVIDIA's tough Radeon HD 5800 questions

[rkgriffin]

Tigerdirect currently has the XFX 5870 listed as "order today, ships today" instead of the pre-order they had this morning. I just ordered one, after just missing it at newegg earlier this afternoon.

It seems TigerDirect is doing physical inventory right now so any new arrivals are showing up as "backordered" intil they are counted. They might very well have other brands in stock too. They say it will be up to 48 hours before inventory is correctly listed on the website.

[Mad1723]

I can't even imagine the length and the power consumption of the 5870X2!!!
I'll take a wild guess saying they will:
a) use 5850/5870 mix cores to avoid too much heat and power consumption and avoid too long PCB
b)Make a dual PCB card
C)Go for the homerun with a single, extremely long PCB and enormous power consumption!