HD 5870X2 Pictured!

Kornowski

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Behold AMD's, and soon aimed to be the industry's most powerful graphics accelerator: Radeon HD 5870 X2 "Hemlock". Armed with two "Cypress" Radeon HD 5870 graphics processors, this dual-GPU monstrosity packs twice the shader compute power. From the looks of it, the card is slightly longer than its single-GPU sibling from the series, and is better ventilated, although the cooler design more or less resembles it. It draws its power from one 6+2 pin and one 6 pin PCI-E power connectors, just like two of its ancestors in the R700 and R680. Listed for pre-order on a European online store, a Radeon HD 5870 X2 by Club3D is priced at 677 EUR (incl. applicable taxes, 568.9 EUR excluding).

http://www.techpowerup.com/104586/AMD_Radeon_HD_5870_X2_Pictured.html

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Daaayum!
 
Shane

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OMG.....I want! :D


I wonder what the power consumption is on that thing though :eek:

Looks like we will be needing a bigger cases!:p
 
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ScOuT

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677 Euro:eek: That is $994 by the exchange rate today!

That's just a stupid price...all to play a $30 game.

Look at the bright side, instead of running 70 FPS in the new Call of Duty...you can run 400 FPS!

What a joke
 
Shane

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I agree with scout...It is over the top and no game even realy needs all that power yet.

But it is nice!!! :D
 
lovely?

lovely?

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but look at it. it would be the fastest concrete block in the world! not that there is much competition... :rolleyes:
 
voyagerfan99

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I can barely fit my 4870 in my case, let alone that mofo. If I didn't have a form actor HDD as my primary drive, it wouldn't fit!

And $933 is overkill. But Crysis would be begging for mercy!
 
Twist86

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Skorax said:
I'm still a bit knew to the computer world. other graphic cards usually even near that size?
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Well each new generation of card seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

Take a look at 7600GT - 8800GT and GTX 260 the size seems to go like 2-3 inches each time ^-^

Sounds like these new cards will need a full tower :p

My antec 900 will fit it though because its how it does buisness.
 
linkin

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My case has just enough room for my 3870 and enough for the 4850 that should be arriving next week, but there is no was i could fit that mofo in my case. the 4850 is 9" and i think it's huge! that 5870x2 must be like 11-12"

EDIT: seeing as it's a full height card why don't they just make the PCB taller and cut some length off of it?
 
bomberboysk

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ScOuT said:
Rumor has it...you have to plug it straight into a wall outlet for power.
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Nah, it has pcie power connectors on it:p

Also, where you guys getting pricing info from? The only thing i saw about 677 euros was some article from february, which is totally inaccurate as it was still talking about DX 10.1, not DX11. This thing is supposed to retail for $599 from what i have heard from people. ATI wouldnt retail a dual gpu card for more than what two of the standard gpu's themselves retail for...
 
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