The whole list of ATI Radeon HD 5870 reviews
OK, IT’S JUST IMPOSSIBLE to avoid. We’ve rounded up everything we could find on the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card. Having trawled through the reviews and picked up more information than you can shake a stick at, the results are pretty conclusive: there’s nothing out there right now to match it. Put in two and you’ve got the veritable king of the hill in graphics right now.
We’d point out the Tech Power Up articles that cover a bit more than the usual gaming benchmarks and power consumption tests. You get PCIe scaling and the überpowerful Crossfire setup.
Here’s a list of not-so-random reviews from the world wide wibble:
Tech Power Up + PCIe Scaling + Crossfire
and a little bonus for the patient ones...
Youtube (warning - NSFW if someone's looking over your shoulder)
But wait… there’s more!
Ironically, a Chinese site published some instructions on how to unlock SLI on just about every chipset, from P35 to X58 through 790X chipsets. You can find the offending translation on Xdevs.com. Definitely worth your while, is it not?
DFI has come up with something very strange. The Hybrid Motherboard HD combines two full systems on a single motherboard. P45 and Ion chipsets sit on the same PCB and can be seen on TweakTown’s exclusive video preview.
Asus’s 13.3-inch UL30 CULV notebook has grabbed some attention at Hot Hardware. It’s shapely figure and specs have it pegged as a serious candidate for a Xmas sales hit. A quasi 5-hour battery life with a Core 2 Duo processor says loads about it.
iXBT Labs on a different note, revisits several cheaper processors from Intel and AMD. The results are inconclusive as the performance offered by current budget processors put to shame many older “high-end” solutions. It all comes down to the almighty buck.
SSDs are growing more popular by the minute. Not only has performance gone through the roof, but prices have come steadily down. Ninjalane tests the Super Talent UltraDrive ME 32GB SSD. It’s small, granted, but it packs a punch and doesn’t really break the bank, according to Jim.
Benchmark Reviews has a review of the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 motherboard. Their angle is just how this faces-off with the X58. It actually outperforms the X58, offers a TPM module and has all sorts of enthusiast components… expensive though.
Intel does put out the occasional effort to make a decent retail mobo. The DP55KG Extreme provides you with a decent bed for your enthusiast components, even for overclocking. Benjamin was quite pleased and even gave it an Editor’s Choice award. µ
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Nice round up. It's going to be an awesome round of first gen Dx11 parts, IF nvidia ever pull their finger out.
That DFI Hybrid MB is an awesome idea. I hope they release it in the UK, I want one now...
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
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
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.
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.