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ATI Radeon HD 5970

 
 
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      20th Nov 2009
Indistbutably the fastest graphics card on the market now, anybody here in the market for one of these?

Here they are, for your perusal

Seems the only way they've been able to usurp Nvidia's GTX295 is by bunging two of their fastest GPU's together and supporting them with 1Gb of memory each.

But I think, for the price, I'll be sticking with my GTX9800 for a whiles longer.

Interestingly, with all the kerfuffle going on with top end vid cards, if you take a look at the middle market, there are some bargains to be had with some very respectable graphics cards.

 
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      20th Nov 2009
These things are silly money. and they are huge too!! About 300mm long or something? Its getting a silly now.

 



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Yep it is one heck of a card.

Me I wouldn't mind a 5850 mebees even a crossfire set up

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...ew-crossfire/8

You can Boinc on the 5000 range of cards.

 

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