Here are the winners of the MSI TechPowerUp GPU-Z Hardware Giveaway, for the month of October 2010. panning across September and October, the contests gives six lucky winners some epic graphics hardware from MSI. This is the closing month of the contest. The winners for this month are:

• Kamil from the Czech Republic, wins MSI R5870 Lightning
• Thomas from Denmark, wins MSI N460GTX HAWK
• Damir from Croatia, wins MSI R5770 HAWK

Congratulations to the winners. MSI will contact them directly and arrange for the shipping of the prizes. TechPowerUp would like to thank the nice people at MSI for making the giveaway possible, we will return with more such awesome giveaways to the GPU-Z community.

Presenting the winners of the MSI TechPowerUp GPU-Z Hardware Giveaway, for the month of September 2010. Spanning across September and October, the contests gives six lucky winners some rad graphics cards from MSI. The winners for this month are:

• Patrick from United States, wins MSI R5870 Lightning
• Ken from Taiwan, wins MSI N460GTX HAWK
• Oskar from Poland, wins MSI R5770 HAWK

Congratulations to the winners. MSI will contact them directly and arrange for the shipping of the prizes. There's one more month to go. If you haven't participated yet, download the latest TechPowerUp GPU-Z and follow the instructions on the "MSI Giveaway" tab. If you've already filled up your entry, please don't resubmit, it will still be part of the October draw, multiple entries are disqualified. Good Luck!

Seen on numerous occasions and teaser videos as in either its prototype form or just plain CGI drawings, XFX seems to have finally made a working, ready for release iteration of its HD 5970 Black Edition 4 GB graphics card in its wacky retail packaging, which it hype-marketed through teaser videos. TweakPC got to lay its hands on one of these limited edition packages, and went ahead un"boxing" it. The package is actually a bag meant to carry small sniper-rifles (good luck getting it through customs). Inside, the actual graphics card is enclosed inside a case shaped somewhat like a Belgian P90 submachine gun. If that wasn't enough, the magazine pockets on the bag contain accessory boxes that look like magazines.

The card itself has a redesigned cooling assembly, that looks different from what the first iteration looked like. It has grooves on its top, and a badge with a limited edition serial number. Internally, the GPUs are pushed far apart, each has its own heatsink. The fan is located in the middle, it blows air to those heatsinks located on either sides. Power is drawn in from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. Display connectivity includes 6 mini-DP (DVI adapters included), supporting Eyefinity6. Each GPU carries the same clock profiles as the Radeon HD 5870, 850 MHz core, 1200 MHz (4800 MHz effective) memory, but addresses 2 GB of memory each. XFX seems to have commenced selling, expect it to be priced over $1000.Pictures of the card follow.

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announces the first graphics solution which can support up to 6 monitors: the HD5870 Eyefinity 6. The HD5870 Eyefinity 6 features multi-display Eyefinity technology, enables up to six monitors to be operated from one card through its six mini displayport onboard design. This unique feature allows gamers to expand real estate and delivers incredible HD gaming.

The HD5870 Eyefinity 6 has an unparalleled 1600 stream processors and equipped with 2GB onboard memory, clocks in at 850MHz core speed and 1200MHz of memory speed, easily boosting PC's with nearly 3 teraFLOPs of computing power. It delivers the intense gaming performance and unrivaled image quality with lifelike 3D visual effects.

Gaming has evolved into a leading growth industry and dynamic motivator for the technology sector, as CeBIT 2010 further illustrates. It's a massively popular pastime drawing people, all united through thrilling entertainment. ASUS shares the passion, maintaining a tradition of ingenuity aimed at meeting the needs of gamers both with the hardcore Republic of Gamers brand (ROG) and powerful mainstream solutions. It seeks to innovate and introduce new exciting ways to enjoy gaming, believing it should be natural to take up rather than complicated.

MSI's GX740 and GX640 gaming notebooks come equipped with Intel's newest Core i5 processor with the ATI Radeon HD5870 (GX740) and HD5850 (GX640) discrete graphics cards (1GB GDDR5 VRAM) for the ultimate gaming experience. Taipei-The GX640 and GX740, the latest, greatest members of MSI G-Series, are now available on the market. They boast Intel's newest Core i5 processor with the most advanced ATI Radeon HD5870 (GX740) and HD5850 (GX640) discrete graphics cards with 1GB GDDR5 VRAM and SRS Premium Sound. Unleash your gaming potential with their superior speed, smooth visuals, and gamer keyboards.

MSI Director of Marketing Sam Chern points out that the GX640 and GX740 are MSI's newest gaming notebooks. To provide gamers with the fastest processing performance and best display effects available, MSI incorporated Intel's latest Core i5 processor with ATI Radeon discrete graphics cards with 1GB GDDR5 memory, providing three times the performance of conventional display memory, while using less power. Gaming notebooks don't come any better.

ASUS is known to toy with bleeding-edge technology to give out high-end products. Earlier, ASUS put two GeForce GTX 285 GPUs into one accelerator to give out a custom-design product that outperformed NVIDIA's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295. According to o.v.e.r.clockers.at, ASUS might be doing something similar, this time around with AMD's Cypress GPUs in its Radeon HD 5870 avatar. It is said to be working on a dual-HD 5870 graphics card, codenamed "Ares".

While the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 uses full-featured AMD Cypress GPUs (with all its stream processors and memory bus width available), ASUS will attempt to use the one disparity between an HD 5970 and two HD 5870 to its advantage: clock speeds. The Cypress GPUs in HD 5970 feature lower clock speeds (725/1000 MHz core/memory) compared to the single Cypress GPU on the HD 5870 (850/1200 MHz). Electrical constraints are probably the reason behind this. It is likely that ASUS will use stronger VRM circuitry to power the two GPUs to run at higher speeds, while also providing some overclocking headroom.

AMD in a recent conference call to the press said that it didn't expect to see custom-design HD 5970-like accelerators till Q2 2010, although we don't infer there to be any sort of restriction in place, as was the case with NVIDIA and its GTX 295. Ares is likely named after the Greek God of warfare by the name. An apt successor to Mars (which also happens to be the name of the Roman God of war), ASUS' previous attempt at an extreme high-end graphics card of its own design.

The Dutch techsite tweakers.net set a new world record for 3Dmark03. While the old record (180,349) was set using four 4890s the new record uses only three 5870s and a Xeon W3540 clocked at 5231 MHz. The 5870s ran at 1200 MHz with only slightly overclocked memory at 4900 MHz.