 best card on the planet. |
| Review Date: September 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: W. Chu, DIAMOND BAR, CA USA |
| ordered when amazon first had it for pre-order. surprise to see it actually arrived in less than a week. i did have 3 LCD ready to try the 3-monitor set up. *one has to be display port. so far, everything works great, and i cannot wait for the Dirt 2 game to be released. * game coupon is included for free with this. there is another game, battlestation, pacific inside the box. game performance and image quality are much better than my evga 295 boards which cost over $150 more. sapphire is in, and evga is now on ebay... |
Best single GPU card out
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| Review Date: October 9, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Divine, |
| You can throw pretty much any current game with max settings at it, and this card will give you a smooth experience. While the 295 GTX has a lead in some games, it is by only a couple of frames. As the 5800 drivers mature, this card will likely beat the remaining scores. Also, this card is a lot less costly than a 295. The only precaution to purchasing this card or any of the other 5870's, make sure you have sufficient room in your case. It's long, around 11.5 inches. I had to do a little bit of case modification to get it to fit. Other than that, it's cool, quiet, fast, and DX11 capable. |
Great BIG Card w/Slightly Too High Price
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| Review Date: November 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Smith, Alaska |
I'm using a 24" Dell LCD and a Core 2 Duo 3Ghz processor. I really can't stand playing games without Vsync on, which often drives my frame rates into the ground, but I have been able to play a host of titles (Borderlands, Prototype, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Red Faction Guerrilla, Fallout 3, Oblivion) all at relatively high Anti-Aliasing (8x) without the tearing affect and no noticeable dip in framerates at 1920x1080.
The card itself is really big, about an inch more than my ATI 4870, so many mid-tower cases may need to be completely rearranged for it to fit. The card itself is quite quiet, even when running under load. It rivals the 4870 while idle and completely blows it out of the water (quiet wise) when running pell mell. I'm running this card with a Crucial 520w power supply and it is working like a champ, so either I am getting really lucky or there is even more power hiding under the hood somewhere.
My only concern is the price which seems high to me, especially when this card is supposed to be the next-gen version of the 4870, which debuted at $299. That is only a knock on ATI for their pricing scheme, not that of Amazon or Sapphire. There is a good chance that the 5770 may be just as good, and cheaper, so definitely look into that when thinking about buying. This card is definitely overkill for me, but I don't want ANY slow down in games at a quiet noise level... so maybe it isn't!
Overall, great card that does what I want, quiet AND big and somewhat overpriced. I hope this helps.
PS - Amazon shipping is what made me buy from here... $25 bucks from just about any other store to Alaska PLUS handling fees? No thanks! |
great Card, best so far october 2009
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| Review Date: October 29, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Grover Washington, |
| Defintely the best videocard so far this far into Oct. 2009. Superior graphics, eyefinity etc. ATI is definitely kicking NVIDIA's butt this time around. Runs at low temps, easy overclockability as well. |
Rocks! except for the DP port
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| Review Date: January 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: G. Shuman, |
This card is outstanding! I love everything about it except for the DP port. I understand that this is the "wave" of the future, but for ATI(AMD) to disable the ablity to use three monitors at once from one card unless you either have a DP capable monitor or spend another $100 to buy a active DP dual link dvi adapter (passive adapters will not work!) is pretty chessy IMHO.
But once you drop the money and buy an active adapter or a DP monitor, it works great! I run FSX, DCS Black Shark, COD: MW both 1&2, X3:TC, Sins of a Solar Empire and many others, all at the highest resolutions on three monitors and it is just amazing.
My system is an i7 920 overclocked to 3.2GHz (V8 Cooler), Asus PT6 WS, and 6 gig of ram, Win7 x64, WD 1T drive, in a CM Sniper case.
If it were not for the DP issue, would have given it five stars. |
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