Quote Originally Posted by dekruyter View Post
Gotta say, I love this response, and agree. The 5870 is what it is....a "product", build on design, manufacturing, cost, and marketing/sales limitations. If the components are not equally matched, and thus there is hidden performance, so what. It is what it is. No one could ever claim that the 5870 components were perfectly tuned....to say within a few % of each other. It is "technically" interested what these test show, but in the real world what do they mean......they certainly have nothing to do w/ the decision to buy, or not buy.

And for disclosure's sake, I get my XFX 5870 on Monday.
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This got everything to do with buying the best product and overclocking it to the max . We are on xtremesystems here ..
Most people here want to get the most of of the product which they have bought . And not only that , but we want to learn more about this product and squeeze every last bit of perfomance out of it .

You seem to be one of those few people on here that is not interested too much in this material . But that's ok too