Hardware Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 4GB Toxic Review

I hope not, as if that would be "the preferred" standard; monstrous powerconsuming hardware. Where does it end ? 2000watts? 3000watts? 4000watts? Isn't there a moment you think; wow; this is going way out of hand ?

Yeah, maybe when your electric bills start to show enormous figures....that will help.

 

The big con of this cooler setup is that it doesn't blow the hot air out of the case. Having a fan in the case's side wall is mandatory here. I know what I am talking about: I had once been cooling a HD4870 with a similar AC cooler, and had to add a fan to my case's side wall to keep it from overheating (and since the case didn't have a fan grill in the side, I even had to drill holes in it myself).

 

SLI GTX480s cost around this much, could we get benches vs that aswell?[/QUOTE]

pointless they would use alot more power and the temp would be alot higher as well prob cook them selves

 

lol sharpe

this isnt about heat or power this is pure performance

i want sli 480s benched agaist this.

If you can pay £1k on graphics cards your power bill isnt the most relivent part of your month lol

 

It will do, if your bill equals the price you've paid for them ...lol

 

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Other reviews have SLI GTX470's/480's against this, and they score about the same, mostly won by the 470's/480's. Overall, the power draw is lower on the 5970, temps are lower but, it is louder (subjective analysis). It costs less than than the 480's, but more than the 470's. (Taken from hexus, not my material.)

 

pointless they would use alot more power and the temp would be alot higher as well prob cook them selves[/QUOTE]

They won't. The temps of a GTX480 in Tri SLI was only 3 deg more than a lone card.

 

So that's 103 as opposed to the ice cold 100 degrees they normally run at?

 

+1

There are people on these boards who are fine with high bills and extreme performance.

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Finally something worthy to replace my 4870x2!

If I can get my hands on two, ill post the benchmarks.

Also to the BT reviewers, what is with testing gpus at ultra-low resolutions like 1,680 x 1,050. Your time would have been better spent hooking up 3 27" and 3 30" monitors in an Eyefinity setup, THAT is the exact reason this wonderful Beast has 4Gb of ram. So do a follow up review with eyefinity.

1100$ is a reasonable price point for gear of this level, I do hope the run is more than 1000 units though.

 

i have put an order in with my local shop for one of these beast anyway

and may order a second 0ne have not made my mind up though

 

I - for one - use 1680 x 1050, but I follow you. I probably won't be gaming with a card like this at such a low resolution.

 

They're designed to run at those temps?

 

Where can i buy this graphic card..?
Is it really already sell on market...?
Or just sample from sapphire for review only..?

 

Designed?

I'm sure if Nvidia could've made them run cooler, they'd be running cooler. The high power consumption (and thus high heat output) are the main cons of the Fermi series.

 

No kidding ? People who don't care much what's happening with our envirement, you know, that silly planet we live on. What do you care, you will be long dead, right ?

Me, me, me, more, more, more... does that sound familiar ?

 

Oh thats great. I recycle like a *******. Compost everything I can. And you come here wasting my precious carbon savings with worthless BS. Cheers.

Oh and while you are on your 'save the cheerleader world' crusade can you have a word with China?

 

Mmmm. This in CF with a 980x, 24gb of 2200 Mhz ram, OCZ vertex 2 solid state drives in raid 0. Excuse me while i go rob a bank =]


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