looks very nice in person - though more difficult to manufacture as pcb i very special ;) in taipei now getting ready to go home after msi oc workshop :)

This looks damn good, maybe I'll upgrade to this one day. When I have water cooling assisted with TEC cooling...

3volvedcombatWhy are people saything this and that about the 2x8 pins people.........

HAVE YOU SEEN THE PHASES ON THE CARD, They want users to have the MAXIUMUM AMOUNT OF POWER to be able to stream right to the gpu..... Its not for just showing off, its for getting the 1.5Ghz core with double the regular voltage people....

When kingpin gets the sucker does a little cap mods, he will do something insane with the card, and it helps to have 2x8 pins on that card for maxiumum power transfer.

So lets not just go cry babying and putting negatives on the 2x 8pins on the card, This card was specifically maid for overclocking, And if you just want to only have a 1 Ghz HD 5870 then go purchase other offerings. But if you want some insane speeds, the best quality, the best power thruput, and are trying to get a benchmark world record, then just buy MSi's offering of a extremely pimped out HD 5870.


**** Basicly***** To sum it up, this isnt a card the average user and video card overclocker would even buy, they might, but they wont push massive volts and they wont use extreme cooling like fully water or up. But i want to see in the right rig how far this HD 5870 can go ;D

Except the 8 pin connectors don't provide any more power than 6 pin connectors. The extra pins are both grounds.

Wile EExcept the 8 pin connectors don't provide any more power than 6 pin connectors. The extra pins are both grounds.

Needs... more... shineys! :laugh:

Hopefully this card can perform, with all the extra work its been given. extremely overclocked edition seems like a gamble, because they either have to water block it, or give it an insane cooler. Then, someone's gonna be crazy enough to crossfire/SLI it.

This card both excites and saddens me...if MSI release this card in the next couple of weeks...it doesn't make sense for a refresh of the 5870 to be done as well.

Given the missing phase on the reference PCB, Cypress doesn't consume alot of current. There is either issues @ higher voltage(current ramping up more than normal), and given that HD5970 runs jsut as many shaders, but less clocks, and less volts...

I wonder how MSI are binning gpus for these boards, or if they will at all. It's a very interesting product that I'd love to get my hands on. I haven't even put my 5870s in a system yet, but wouldn't mind leaving them in thier boxes for a cxouple of these.

why 2x8 pin?

could it the OCers version(like the 285 classified)

I guess we'll see someone hitting 1.3 Ghz stable with this thing(ok, not 1.3, maybe 1.2 hehe)

any word on price?
$499?

Cool but...

MSI needs to come out with these cards a LOT earlier. They get a pass with the GTX ones because that was their first, maybe they came up with the idea relatively late, but this is coming out what like 5 months after the initial launch? (Figure it's out a month from now.) I know design and whatnot takes time but they ought to be able to do something pre-launch with custom designs to a certain extent. 5 months is so near the usual half-cycle update it might make sense to see how those work out, not that we know anything certain on those yet but still.

SteevoHow much memory?

+1

I want my 2GB 5870 ALREADY.

I cant wait to see a 5970 Lightning Edition! should probably give us dual 1.2Ghz :D

What cooling system does it have??? I bet, with standard cooling, and freqs ovr 1.2GHZ the GPU can go way up over 100C...maybe liquid...??

TAViXWhat cooling system does it have??? I bet, with standard cooling, and freqs ovr 1.2GHZ the GPU can go way up over 100C...maybe liquid...??

There lightning cooler, its a dual fan heatpipe cooler.

afwAny news about the length of this card ... ??? ...

EDIT : 2 x 8-pin ... hmm .... why would it need so much power just because its clocked at 1000mhz ... i've seen people achieve those clocks with reference cards ...

+1 for why 2x8 pin

pantherx12Its shorter then normal, hence being wider then normal.

afwi know its shorter ... just wanted to know the exact length ... :D

shorter is better to fit and take small room in cases, in same time short one not mean expect lower performance or more heat , i have palit 4850 it's shorter than normal but it have great performance very stable overclocking and lower heat