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AMD Radeon HD 5870 1 GB GDDR5
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to W1zzard! Tear-down pics make a review so very complete. Worldwide, TPU is the first stop for many. I've quickly come to understand why. Awesome pics to complete an excellent review.. 
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True, 317 euro's is still 460 dollars, but at least it's not a 1 on 1 conversion.
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love that power consumption 
Would work nicely in a low power gaming rig
Would work nicely in a low power gaming rig
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Nice review as always W1zzard.
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Just slightly disappointed with the performance. Everything else just looks amazing tho. I'm definitely grabbing a HD 5850 when I get a job. I bet the performance will be even better after some good drivers come out for it
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Now, what does a 5870 score in Furmark at default settings (SXGA, no AA/AF)?
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Hahahahahaha Nvidia fans r in denial... ATI's new series = Winrar!!! The single 5870 comes extremely close to outperforming the 295... and thats 2 cores vs 1
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their is no need to bring fanboi ism into this. this is a review it doesnt need to become an argument. but if you want the god honest truth look at the facts. and if you want more god honest truth if you want the 295 to get more of a lead clock the shaders up the 5870 wont be able to keep up.
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Dayum, i think the 5870 does very well my self. Not as well if you put it against the 295 but thats a dual GPU card.
For it to beat and come even close to the 295 is some thing real good as when the 5870 x2 comes out it's going be way past the 295.
This card is against the 285 not the 295 and still gives the 295 a run for it's money and $100 cheaper which will change v soon i bet..
For it to beat and come even close to the 295 is some thing real good as when the 5870 x2 comes out it's going be way past the 295.
This card is against the 285 not the 295 and still gives the 295 a run for it's money and $100 cheaper which will change v soon i bet..
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So should i sell my 4850s for like 200 euros (with musashi s on) and grab a 5850?
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Depends, what do you do with it?
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if that is your only problem with the whole review then i'm happy and have done my job well.. when i put it there i was aware that there would be a few people complaining about it.
but it is a fact that both technologies can be useful to you, depending on what you plan to use the card for. since i didnt mention it with any word in the text you can imagine how important it is for the general user in my opinion
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Too bad reviews around the web confirm 5870 OCs like crap. No 4770'ish easy 1GHz. <50MHz gain is pathetic. Also, memory error correction is bad for OC'ers. I'll likely skip 5800s and see how G300 does.
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wait till later today. memory error correction is there and i'm also looking into turning its feature to our [overclockers] advantage
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Excellent review, as always. Love the power consumption figures.
Any hints when the 5850 review is coming out. I'd love to see it's temts, noise level, power draw and overclockability.
Any hints when the 5850 review is coming out. I'd love to see it's temts, noise level, power draw and overclockability.
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as soon as there are cards. afaik noone has any yet
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Next to the nice review it's also good to see you're right here giving and receiving feedback
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i just had an extremely refreshing nap (while the 5870 cf is benching) .. getting up at 6 am to post the review = sucks
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What's the stock GPU voltage?
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Looking forward to see how well the CF scales. And also, as you mentioned, to the "new" way of memory clocking.
I'm under the impression that some reviewers report the OC results to be bad because they didn't actually notice the error correction kicking in. Plus, imo it's absolutely an added bonus to not brick your card with artifacts when overclocking too wildly.
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Found a typo:
Fact is, error correction is not good when OC'ing. Unless it's just the freq you're interested in, not the performance. Now, if there's a way to rig an app to report EC events to the user, that would be useful. But as long as the user can't easily know whether EC is active it's just simply a bad feature with no gains, only potential for decreasing performance.
Originally Posted in the review
Basically the card can drive six TMDS signals that can be combined in any way (a dual-link DVI consumes two TMSD lines).
On the contrary, not noticing EC kicking in would result in a "false OC", where the achieved OC freq is artificially higher, while real throughput is lower compared to a truly stable freq where EC is not active.
Dunno what you mean by "brick your card"...
Fact is, error correction is not good when OC'ing. Unless it's just the freq you're interested in, not the performance. Now, if there's a way to rig an app to report EC events to the user, that would be useful. But as long as the user can't easily know whether EC is active it's just simply a bad feature with no gains, only potential for decreasing performance.
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they more than likely overclock so badly because ATI probably dropped the vcore and mem volatage to a minimum to keep the temperature in check and didn't want to take chances on the cards release, now since the card supports software voltage control then maybe wiz can push it to its limits . . . ..
unless he has to send it back to ATI or another reviewer.