HD5870X2 and 5850X2 Photos

Looks like the added heat from the second GPU required a full-sized vent on
the slot bracket, so the HDMI port is deleted. The DisplayPort connector is
now the mini type. Interesting dual-orb cooler on the 5850X2; I believe it's
a first for a reference design.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...mages-surface/

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"First of One" wrote in message
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Looks like the added heat from the second GPU required a full-sized vent
on the slot bracket, so the HDMI port is deleted. The DisplayPort
connector is now the mini type. Interesting dual-orb cooler on the 5850X2;
I believe it's a first for a reference design.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...mages-surface/

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."



you'd have thought they could get a decent camera or at least get the pics
in focus.

And the 8+6 pin power connectors are back, and at 376 W TDP per card, for
good reason.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"First of One" wrote in message
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Looks like the added heat from the second GPU required a full-sized vent
on the slot bracket, so the HDMI port is deleted. The DisplayPort
connector is now the mini type. Interesting dual-orb cooler on the 5850X2;
I believe it's a first for a reference design.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...mages-surface/

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"First of One" wrote in message
...
Looks like the added heat from the second GPU required a full-sized vent
on the slot bracket, so the HDMI port is deleted. The DisplayPort
connector is now the mini type. Interesting dual-orb cooler on the 5850X2;
I believe it's a first for a reference design.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...mages-surface/

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."



I can't think of any games worth throwing this level of hardware at. My 4870
runs Crysis on a 22" monitor just fine. I haven't seen anything come down
the pipe line worth purchasing for the 5870 to run on. In fact, the game
industry seems to be stuck in a holding pattern for the last two years. On
top of that, you can's 'purchase' the software any more, you only get to
rent it for limited use only.

I think that until the game industry gets this DRM out of the way it's not
going to go anywhere, and the hardware isn't going to get pushed as much as
it has in the past. That's to bad, because it's the games that have pushed
innovation in the graphics market more than anything else out there.

So games, and the hardware that run the games, are at a standstill until DRM
is reduced to a level that gamers are willing to tolerate. No more phone-in
or Internet registration, and no more live Internet connection required to
run the games. Screw Steam, I want a piece of hardware in my hand today,
and a year from now, that when I purchase a game it requires no outside
registration or server to run.

William

"William" wrote in message
acquisition...
I can't think of any games worth throwing this level of hardware at. My
4870 runs Crysis on a 22" monitor just fine. I haven't seen anything come
down the pipe line worth purchasing for the 5870 to run on. In fact, the
game industry seems to be stuck in a holding pattern for the last two
years. On top of that, you can's 'purchase' the software any more, you
only get to rent it for limited use only.

I think that until the game industry gets this DRM out of the way it's not
going to go anywhere, and the hardware isn't going to get pushed as much
as it has in the past. That's to bad, because it's the games that have
pushed innovation in the graphics market more than anything else out
there.

I think this is partly the reason for AMD to develop Eyefinity: since the
games aren't becoming more demanding, it's better to increase the immersion
and push three times the resolution.

The crazy thing is, the 5870X2 still has a Crossfire connector on top, so
quad-GPU setups are possible, with hypothetical 752 W TDP if the game scales
properly.

So games, and the hardware that run the games, are at a standstill until
DRM is reduced to a level that gamers are willing to tolerate. No more
phone-in or Internet registration, and no more live Internet connection
required to run the games. Screw Steam, I want a piece of hardware in my
hand today, and a year from now, that when I purchase a game it requires
no outside registration or server to run.

So download a no-CD patch for it from either megagames.com or
gamecopyworld.com .


--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

William wrote:
"First of One" wrote in message
...
Looks like the added heat from the second GPU required a full-sized vent
on the slot bracket, so the HDMI port is deleted. The DisplayPort
connector is now the mini type. Interesting dual-orb cooler on the 5850X2;
I believe it's a first for a reference design.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...mages-surface/

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."



I can't think of any games worth throwing this level of hardware at. My 4870
runs Crysis on a 22" monitor just fine. I haven't seen anything come down
the pipe line worth purchasing for the 5870 to run on. In fact, the game
industry seems to be stuck in a holding pattern for the last two years. On
top of that, you can's 'purchase' the software any more, you only get to
rent it for limited use only.

I think that until the game industry gets this DRM out of the way it's not
going to go anywhere, and the hardware isn't going to get pushed as much as
it has in the past. That's to bad, because it's the games that have pushed
innovation in the graphics market more than anything else out there.

So games, and the hardware that run the games, are at a standstill until DRM
is reduced to a level that gamers are willing to tolerate. No more phone-in
or Internet registration, and no more live Internet connection required to
run the games. Screw Steam, I want a piece of hardware in my hand today,
and a year from now, that when I purchase a game it requires no outside
registration or server to run.


It seems that Bethesda is going in the right direction. While Fallout 3
required an internet connection to activate, the subsequent mods removed
the necessity of even needing a CD in the drive to run. Of course the
first thing I look at now is the mention of internet connection needed
either to run or activate. If it is present I move on. Maybe if enough
people refuse to buy games that require the internet to run the
manufacturers will get the hint. Even Microsoft does not require an
internet connection to activate their OS or use it, unless they changed
that in 7.


William

* Michael W. Ryder:

It seems that Bethesda is going in the right direction. While Fallout 3
required an internet connection to activate

Did it? I'm pretty shure my Fallout 3 for Windows didn't need online
activation.

, the subsequent mods removed
the necessity of even needing a CD in the drive to run.

IIRC you never needed the DVD in the drive if you started the game via
fallout3.exe instead of fallout3launcher.exe.

Benjamin

"William" wrote in message acquisition...

"First of One" wrote in message
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Looks like the added heat from the second GPU required a full-sized vent
on the slot bracket, so the HDMI port is deleted. The DisplayPort
connector is now the mini type. Interesting dual-orb cooler on the 5850X2;
I believe it's a first for a reference design.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...mages-surface/

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."



I can't think of any games worth throwing this level of hardware at. My 4870
runs Crysis on a 22" monitor just fine. I haven't seen anything come down
the pipe line worth purchasing for the 5870 to run on. In fact, the game
industry seems to be stuck in a holding pattern for the last two years. On
top of that, you can's 'purchase' the software any more, you only get to
rent it for limited use only.

I think that until the game industry gets this DRM out of the way it's not
going to go anywhere, and the hardware isn't going to get pushed as much as
it has in the past. That's to bad, because it's the games that have pushed
innovation in the graphics market more than anything else out there.

So games, and the hardware that run the games, are at a standstill until DRM
is reduced to a level that gamers are willing to tolerate. No more phone-in
or Internet registration, and no more live Internet connection required to
run the games. Screw Steam, I want a piece of hardware in my hand today,
and a year from now, that when I purchase a game it requires no outside
registration or server to run.

I couldn't agree more about Steam, although once games are registered
and updated they run just fine without an internet connection, or even a
CD. Just set Steam to offline mode.

It's a far more intelligent approach than other protection schemes, e.g.
Midway and their horrid StarForce protection. The sons of bitches
squeezed their ass cheeks so tightly together, they greeded themselves
straight into bankruptcy. As if gamers would be willing to watch their
CD and DVD drives die premature deaths and have their system
security and performance severely compromised, just to run 20 year
old arcade games? Simply astonishing stupidity and greed.