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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:25 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I guess thats cool and all but how bout they fix the shortage of like all the 58xx series before they jump into another card... I mean like 100 people have 5850s... I want one =(. _________________
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:31 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| The HD5970 is a dual gpu card, so it drawing more power isn't a surprise. |  | 
	
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:46 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Well shit. 
 It weights over 1kg. Being able to jack the core frequency to whatever I want is pretty enticing, but that $600 price point completely turns of me off. =\
 
 It's like the PS3 price announcement at E3 all over again...
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		| kls85 I post too much
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:09 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | ArcaneKnite wrote: |  	  | Well shit. 
 It weights over 1kg. Being able to jack the core frequency to whatever I want is pretty enticing, but that $600 price point completely turns of me off. =\
 
 It's like the PS3 price announcement at E3 all over again...
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 About 3-4 years ago a single gpu card starts out at $600
 For a video card to have 2 gpus and start out at $600 is consider cheap.
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		| hcavolsdsadgadsg I'm a spammer
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:10 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| it's $600 because it's basically double the performance of a $300 card. you're getting what you pay for. 
 it looks to be VERY overclockable, don't know what OP means.
 HardOCP went from 725 / 1000 stock to 900 / 1350 with simple software voltage tweaking.
 
 24% difference in engine speed alone. ffff
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:50 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | kls85 wrote: |  	  |  	  | ArcaneKnite wrote: |  	  | Well shit. 
 It weights over 1kg. Being able to jack the core frequency to whatever I want is pretty enticing, but that $600 price point completely turns of me off. =\
 
 It's like the PS3 price announcement at E3 all over again...
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 About 3-4 years ago a single gpu card starts out at $600
 For a video card to have 2 gpus and start out at $600 is consider cheap.
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 Yeah I know, but $600 for just a gfx card is a bit more than I can handle.
 
 I'll probably just grab a 5850 when I build my next rig either this Christmas break, or next year during summer holidays.
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		| superweapons Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
 
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				|  Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:59 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| @slovach: I was probably thinking of the HD5770 (~950 core at stock volts). 
 AMD's lineup is still a bit expensive IMO. Price to performance is not that great around the HD5750/5770 vs. the GTX 260 (although the former offers DX11, lower power usage, etc).TSMC needs to fix its 40nm yield issues.
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