HD5970 Reviews

[Sam_oslo]

Additional differentiation would be really nice. Until now, most partners only manged to differentiate the logo .

The best would be to use some really good coolers on these high end cards (both air and water-blocks), but very few (if any) seams to be willing to go that far. Everybody can OC a cool card.

[initialised]

Their nice way of saying : We gotta account for the noobs out there with crappy psu's trying to run this.

No, it's more so system integrators can carry on using cheap and nasty PSUs to keep their margins up. If a PSU says it is 850W you'd expect it to run this card OC'd. Think again, I've destroyed dozens of supposed 850W units with GTX275s, 4890s, even 4850s with an aggressive over clock and a couple of hours of full load.

The main concern for the card vendors is that the cards will comeback for RMA after crashing due to power issues in systems with PSUs that meet the minimum standard but have degraded over time.

So yeah, they are taking the risk that those who know will see it as a 400W card and overclock it to or beyond 5870 limits and that those who don't can be fobbed off with 'buy a better PSU' when their system wont do the new thing.

The length issue helps as generally people who have case's that will take it will have decent PSUs so should reduce the number of incompatible returns.

[Crazystang01]

@ initialised EK is working on a water block according to their News post.

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index.p...t01returnid=17

[kadozer]

No, it's more so system integrators can carry on using cheap and nasty PSUs to keep their margins up. If a PSU says it is 850W you'd expect it to run this card OC'd. Think again, I've destroyed dozens of supposed 850W units with GTX275s, 4890s, even 4850s with an aggressive over clock and a couple of hours of full load.

The main concern for the card vendors is that the cards will comeback for RMA after crashing due to power issues in systems with PSUs that meet the minimum standard but have degraded over time.

So yeah, they are taking the risk that those who know will see it as a 400W card and overclock it to or beyond 5870 limits and that those who don't can be fobbed off with 'buy a better PSU' when their system wont do the new thing.

The length issue helps as generally people who have case's that will take it will have decent PSUs so should reduce the number of incompatible returns.

Pretty much what I just said.. ok then

[Manicdan]

No, it's more so system integrators can carry on using cheap and nasty PSUs to keep their margins up. If a PSU says it is 850W you'd expect it to run this card OC'd. Think again, I've destroyed dozens of supposed 850W units with GTX275s, 4890s, even 4850s with an aggressive over clock and a couple of hours of full load.

The main concern for the card vendors is that the cards will comeback for RMA after crashing due to power issues in systems with PSUs that meet the minimum standard but have degraded over time.

So yeah, they are taking the risk that those who know will see it as a 400W card and overclock it to or beyond 5870 limits and that those who don't can be fobbed off with 'buy a better PSU' when their system wont do the new thing.

The length issue helps as generally people who have case's that will take it will have decent PSUs so should reduce the number of incompatible returns.

thanks for bringing back memories of my HD2900 making my old PSU sound like a fax modem.

[Monstru]

I really dunno what PSU's you guys are using but I never had any problems back in the day when I was running my good trusty PC P&C 610W, even with high-end monsters. Now I only use >1KW PSU's for testing, so I cannot see anymore issues as far as the PSU is concerned, but I used to overclock some high-end beasts with the little PCP and never had any issues.

[LinkinParkBoy]

- CORSAIR OBSIDIAN 800D
- CORSAIR HX850
- Asus P6TD DELUXE
- Intel CORE i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz
- CORSAIR H50
- ATI HD5970 2GB GDDR5
- 6GB CORSAIR DDR3-1600 Tri Channel
- SAMSUNG F3 1TB sata2 32MB cache
- Sata DVDRW 24x




Fresh beta drivers as you can see in the results








It won't fit properly on a P6T or P6T SE as it touches a few capacitors on the motherboards













Video: Here

[initialised]

@ initialised EK is working on a water block according to their News post.

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index.p...t01returnid=17

Cool so we can expect some Powercolor 5970 LCS cards soon.

thanks for bringing back memories of my HD2900 making my old PSU sound like a fax modem.

The first card to make watercooled graphics really appealing!

I really dunno what PSU's you guys are using but I never had any problems back in the day when I was running my good trusty PC P&C 610W, even with high-end monsters. Now I only use >1KW PSU's for testing, so I cannot see anymore issues as far as the PSU is concerned, but I used to overclock some high-end beasts with the little PCP and never had any issues.

I'm not talking about the units most people on here will attach to these beasts, I'm talking about cheap rubbish with really bad Engrish on the box, the kind of '850W' PSU that only has one PCI-E 6-Pin adaptor and blows up with a mild OC and a midrange card in a case with poor airflow.

That heaven score is only 3 more than the 32fps I was getting with 5870 LCS, you sure crossfire is kicking in?

[Manicdan]

wow that obsidian case really has no problem with such a GPU

[Manicdan]

The first card to make watercooled graphics really appealing!

yeah i really had to inorder to use the thing. right now my current card is RMAd so i put that one back in, but was lazy so i put on the stock cooler instead of redoing the water loops.

back on water i had it up to 940Mhz core at 1.35v. had to do a bios mod to get that voltage though, so even with the stock cooler it will still run 1.35v in any fullscreen game. i decided to test that out really quickly, and was up to 93c just loading a game, not even showing any graphics. i was scared to do anything past the menus and quickly quit. for now i play in windowed mode so i dont melt any copper. but it sure was one beast (and i dont get why so many hate it, with the right settings its great)

[-Sweeper_]

It won't fit properly on a P6T or P6T SE as it touches a few capacitors on the motherboards

is this confirmed?

[LinkinParkBoy]

Yep, i test it

[Monstru]

I'm not talking about the units most people on here will attach to these beasts, I'm talking about cheap rubbish with really bad Engrish on the box, the kind of '850W' PSU that only has one PCI-E 6-Pin adaptor and blows up with a mild OC and a midrange card in a case with poor airflow.

Well in that case yes sire, you are right. BUT, that has allways been the case with high-end cards and PSU's built on a ship between Taiwan and China. A PSU like that pops with GTX 295, 4870X2 too

[Trembledust]

the second review hit a limit and crashed, not a CCC limit. they mentioned they believe drivers are causing problems

Gee what a surprise @ drivers

[onethreehill]

Radeon HD 5970 Overclocking Guide
http://www.guru3d.com/article/overcl...on-5970-guide/

[-Sweeper_]

Yep, i test it

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...eviews/?page=2

http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphi...eon-HD-5970/p3

both used the P6T vanilla, now I'm confused

[D749]

Did anyone grab a copy of the AMD Overvolt Tool? It was up on Guru3D site but was removed.

[dan7777]

Did anyone grab a copy of the AMD Overvolt Tool? It was up on Guru3D site but was removed.

overvolt tool is here....http://downloads.guru3d.com/ATI-Over...load-2434.html

[gumballguy]

overvolt tool is here....http://downloads.guru3d.com/ATI-Over...load-2434.html

No, it isn't.

[dan7777]

No, it isn't.

oppp sorry been looking around for it and cant find it myself will keep looking and if i find it will post it here ok.

[gumballguy]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...eviews/?page=2

http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphi...eon-HD-5970/p3

both used the P6T vanilla, now I'm confused

Could be a newer rev board. Often boards change without those changes being announced, particularly revs for things like caps being in the way.

oppp sorry been looking around for it and cant find it myself will keep looking and if i find it will post it here ok.

Thanks, appreciate it

[mak1skav]

It won't fit properly on a P6T or P6T SE as it touches a few capacitors on the motherboards

In the video you have linked i can see the VGA working so i can't understand what the problem is.

Is it compatible with P6T Deluxe but not with P6T and P6T SE?

[onethreehill]

Eyefinity benchies at 7680x1600
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=4

[LinkinParkBoy]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...eviews/?page=2

http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphi...eon-HD-5970/p3

both used the P6T vanilla, now I'm confused

i'll take some shots for you today

In the video you have linked i can see the VGA working so i can't understand what the problem is.

Is it compatible with P6T Deluxe but not with P6T and P6T SE?

The board pictured in the video is a P6TD Deluxe

[wez]

No, it isn't.

Read in the OC guide pasted above that AMD had requested the over voltage tool to be taken down from the site...