Powercolor HD 5870 PCS+

W1zzard · Feb 5, 2010

PowerColor's brand new HD 5870 PCS+ comes with an overclock out of the box and an amazing cooling solution that makes the card quieter than any other card in this performance segment. For a price increase of only $10-$20 over the reference design this seems like a great deal.

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air_ii · Feb 9, 2010

Nice and thanks! On a side note, my Sapphire does 1 GHz default voltage on Furmark

! That's on water though...

ArkanHell · Feb 9, 2010

Thats a beautiful piece of hardware imo.

inferKNOX · Feb 9, 2010

IMO Club 3D 5850 Overclocked Edition = Powercolor HD 5870 PCS+ = Sapphire 4870 toxic as far as cooling kit goes.

Quite unimpressed with that.
For good custom cooling Sapphire VaporX/Toxic & HIS IceQ FTW!!

pantherx12 · Feb 9, 2010

I hate the cooler, looks so cheap, especially with the heatpipes sticking out messily like that.

W1zzard · Feb 9, 2010

pantherx12 said:
I hate the cooler, looks so cheap, especially with the heatpipes sticking out messily like that.

except that it delivers the best combination of noise, overclocking, temps of all 58xx cards that i tested so far.

pantherx12 · Feb 9, 2010

W1zzard said:
except that it delivers the best combination of noise, overclocking, temps of all 58xx cards that i tested so far.

Still doesn't make it pretty or better then after market :laugh:

dir_d · Feb 9, 2010

Good review but i really wanna see the 5870 lightning review. 1000Mhz is great i can get my current 5870 to 1000 but its hard

Mescalamba · Feb 9, 2010

I think that beside not exactly stunning look, its great card. 1000MHz on GPU at 70°C load? Thats nice..

Delta6326 · Feb 9, 2010

Nice review, nice card to bad it isnt 2gb cant wait to see some of those

im waiting for a 68*0

Fourstaff · Feb 9, 2010

Batmobile looks much better, but this is a better product than the reference design, and we wouldn't spend our a lot of our time looking at the innards of our pc, so I would pick this over the reference.

pantherx12 · Feb 9, 2010

Fourstaff said:
Batmobile looks much better, but this is a better product than the reference design, and we wouldn't spend our a lot of our time looking at the innards of our pc, so I would pick this over the reference.

Tell this to people with sidewindows that take up 90% of the side panel :laugh:

I'm constantly looking at my rig, its purty :laugh:

W1zzard · Feb 9, 2010

Delta6326 said:
Nice review, nice card to bad it isnt 2gb cant wait to see some of those im waiting for a 68*0

i can tell you the conclusion of the 2 gb card review "looks nice on paper, but the extra gb of memory doesn't do anything"

dir_d said:
Good review but i really wanna see the 5870 lightning review. 1000Mhz is great i can get my current 5870 to 1000 but its hard

once msi has cards they will send me one for review, dont worry

Mescalamba · Feb 9, 2010

W1zzard said:
i can tell you the conclusion of the 2 gb card review "looks nice on paper, but the extra gb of memory doesn't do anything"

once msi has cards they will send me one for review, dont worry

2GB should be usefull for hi-res Eyefinity. (6x LCD and such)

Steevo · Feb 9, 2010

W1zzard said:
i can tell you the conclusion of the 2 gb card review "looks nice on paper, but the extra gb of memory doesn't do anything"

once msi has cards they will send me one for review, dont worry

Wha wha wha what!?

Not even for GTA4?

W1zzard · Feb 9, 2010

Steevo said:
Wha wha wha what!?

Not even for GTA4?

gta4 programmers fail

Steevo · Feb 9, 2010

W1zzard said:
gta4 programmers fail

U make me sad.

I guess it's time to order the 5870 and get some new coolant and memory for my system.

DOM · Feb 9, 2010

W1zzard said:
gta4 programmers fail

Steevo said:
U make me sad.

I guess it's time to order the 5870 and get some new coolant and memory for my system.

i play it on my asus 9600GSO Q at 3.6GHz 6gb ram not max cuz the card only has 384mb

Steevo · Feb 9, 2010

I thinkI am out of memory and bandwidth on my 4850 1Gb increasing the memory clock increase frame rates, but it doesn't overclock so well. i didn't know if the extra vmem helps with the small stuttering with high view distance, right now I am at 32 with all other settings maxxed and get occasional stuttering and some decal and texture corruption from the memory I believe.

I wanted a card that could handle a 50 or better draw distance and some better high res textures and decals.

mrcmark · Feb 9, 2010

nice review!

Im really excited for the MSI 5870 lightning and 5850 cyclone to come out. 1000 ghz ftw!

Zubasa · Feb 9, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Tell this to people with sidewindows that take up 90% of the side panel

I'm constantly looking at my rig, its purty

You really won't see much of the heat-pipes because you are looking at the top of the card from the side panel

I own one such case, so you can take my word for it.

mrcmark · Feb 9, 2010

they should make vc's gpu on the revise so we can adore them. just a thought

mlee49 · Feb 9, 2010

Holy CRAP that card must be insanely quite! Are those numbers right? 27dba idle 32dba load? Really? WOW!

W1zzard · Feb 9, 2010

mlee49 said:
Holy CRAP that card must be insanely quite! Are those numbers right? 27dba idle 32dba load? Really? WOW!

yep it really is insanely quiet for the performance offered

erocker · Feb 9, 2010

Steevo said:
U make me sad.

I guess it's time to order the 5870 and get some new coolant and memory for my system.

Yes you should. While yes the programming does suck for GTAIV, DLC for PC is on the way!

So does ATi need a bigger memory bus for 2gb's of RAM?

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