5970 is out on HIS

The Chad

The Chad

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Was looking on ths HIS website now and saw that they have a 5970 listed, check it out for yourselves. (Sorry if this is already posted)

http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-493.shtml

Some noticeable features from it are:
-3200 stream processors
-2GB 512bit (2x 256) GDDR5 memory
-725Mhz clock speed
-4 Teraflops of processing power
 
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I'll be pissed if the 5850 drops dramatically in price now.

This has only just come out under a week after I bought my 4890 lol.
 
The 5770 shouldn't come down too much in price, because the 5970 is something like $600. Thats an insane amount of money, only the top enthusiasts out there will really consider one.

4870x2 is still super powerful! If I had one I'd stay with it, put another in and your running quad CF :)
 
Leopold Butters said:
What is this card? A dual GPU? What 2 cards make up this one?
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It's specifically two binned 5870 cores (ones that don't need much voltage) clocked at 5850 speeds--the reason they do this is because spec is that you can't pull over 300 watts from the PCI slot, a 6 pin, and an 8pin--so ATi downclocked it to come right under that margin. However, they are providing voltage and frequency programs so that you can set it to higher clocks--more around the 5870 speeds. They have all the power circuitry and cooling in place so you can do this. However, you'll have to have a really amazing PSU--it will be pulling close to 400 watts!
 
You're going to need at least a 650 (which would leave 350 for the rest of the computer), but Ati is recommending 750--all of the 300-400 watts is coming from just two PSU connectors!!
 
Hot hardware did a review, total system pulls just under 400W, you could technically go with a Corsair 450W, a well built 400W at the bare (BARE) minimum. That would be ill-advised and you'd have to be an idiot to go down that route too!

But it would theoretically power the system, pulling around 460W from effiecency, and using the units peak power (right at the edge of its limit).

If you wanted to pick one up I'd go with a minimum of 550w for a basic system with one included. 600W would be good anything extra is an advantage, stick 2 in & were talking 850w bare minimum.
 
Bootup05 said:
Hot hardware did a review, total system pulls just under 400W, you could technically go with a Corsair 450W, a well built 400W at the bare (BARE) minimum. That would be ill-advised and you'd have to be an idiot to go down that route too!

But it would theoretically power the system, pulling around 460W from effiecency, and using the units peak power (right at the edge of its limit).

If you wanted to pick one up I'd go with a minimum of 550w for a basic system with one included. 600W would be good anything extra is an advantage, stick 2 in & were talking 850w bare minimum.
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It really can vary depending on the system: http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3679&p=16

Anandtech measures 529 watts system consumption at stock, and 642 watts at overclocked--add some headroom in there, and you should at least have a 600w if you aren't overclocking (I'd go with 650 or 700), and more like 750w if you are. Add in another card, and you're at ~900 watts for non-overclocked and more like 1150w for overclocked cards (though you'd want water cooling to handle the heat)!
 
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