Now I'm by no means an Intel Fanboy if there is such a thing. I've owned three gens of AMD cpus.

I think there is a good reason why Intel was chosen. First AMD chips are slower.. at least in gaming benches. If you have been keeping yourself up to date, you'd know this.

In these days where CPUs seriously limit the performance you can squeeze from a GPU. To review a monster such as this, you'd need a platform of equal strength or at least close to it. A slower platform would only lower the accuracy of the review. The performance difference would be harder to show on a slower platform.

The same applies 2-3 years back when AMD was king for gaming.

Great new card the 5870 is but, why is it that not 1 review has a AMD processor been used in the test systems. Come on when is comes to games AMD can hold its own. Not everyone is running OCed i7 9** series cpu's.

Wibbling on Future, 5770 & 5750 are Half SIMD, well slightly less than half, & Half Cost. Half Stream Processsors & well, Guess, ?Half Vantage, that Wibble Is Next month. Probably bit better, maybe even crossfire capable from Size of Card point of view.
then again, maybe You where Born to suffer, You got ? Drashek. OMG.

AnyWay, Here:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/-rumour-ati-radeon-hd-5700-series-sum-up/7717.html?doc=7717

Looking Closely at 5870 Crossfire Pics, Notice Sata Ports Are Completely 100% Blocked, Not Even Dell right angle connector will fit. So Forget Crossfire of Any flavour. At Least for Now.

Uncle Adolf, How Do You do It? Chicago Wasn't enough, Now Its entire world Again, Good Way to round Up German viewers....hahaha. hehe.

New Name: THOMAS STEWART Von Roberts Magee..... Same Ha,Ha, Same He,he.

DRASHEK

That DFI Hybrid MB is an awesome idea. I hope they release it in the UK, I want one now...

Nice round up. It's going to be an awesome round of first gen Dx11 parts, IF nvidia ever pull their finger out.

*cricket chirps*