New Graphics Card !

[Raptor25k]

Well i have a friend who wants my ATI Radeon 4870

I think i'm gonna let him buy it from me and then i'll turn around and get the new ATI Radeon 5870

http://www.xfxforce.com/ecms.ashx/14c9f88a-9ad3-4b8f-9fc2-f04836ed15e0/RelatedGraphicCardSeries_RelatedGraphicCardModels1/HD5870M1354x312.jpg

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870
STEP INTO OUR REALITY
Taking 3 enormous steps towards realistic gaming, the The XFX Radeon HD 5870 with Eyefinity Technology, gives the first-ever wrap-around in-picture experiece to fully immerse yourself in the game, or maximize your productivity at work. Additionally, with ATI Stream Technology, boost your systems performance by offloading tasks originally sent to your CPU, to your GPU and max out your settings with the first ever full support for Microsoft Directx11.

1GB GDDR5 memory
ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays (1,3)
Window 7 support
ATI Sream technology (2)
Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) (2,4)
Compliant with DirectX® 11 and earlier revisions
Supports OpenGL 3.2
40 nm Process technology
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (5)
ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology (6,7)
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology (6)
Display Port, HDMI, 2xDL-DVI
PCI Express® 2.0 support


(1) Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector.

(2) Requires application support for ATI stream technology.

(3) ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for spanning across three displays

(4) Digital rights management restrictions may apply.

(5) ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect(s) and may require a specialized power supply.



:rolleyes:

[Loki951]

One of the hardest decisions for me to wait to go for Gen 2 DX11 cards... is that they also do have that "ATI Eyefinity" I have the Sony SDM-P234 and want to get two smaller monitors to place around it to make my Tri-monitor complete. Its definitely on my todo list but maybe not quite in my budget bracket as of yet. >=)

P.S. Awesome Raptor!

[Ghotimeal]

Awesome!!!

[Praetorian999]

very nice!

[[Team] BilltheBrute]

wow, that is almost more powerful than my whole computer! THats awesome man

[tinybobdfa]

Nice one raptor But here is my Graphics card I SSSOOOOO much want 2 but the noise would kill me ;);)
I have the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800

GPU Specs: CUDA Cores X 240
GPU Memory Specs: Memory Size Total 4 GB
Memory Interface 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 102
Display Support: Dual Link DVI-I 2
DisplayPort 1
# of Digital Outputs 3 ( 2 out of 3 active at a time )
# of Analog Outputs 2
Stereo (3-pin Mini-DIN) 1
Maximum Display Resolution Digital @ 60Hz 2560x1600
Feature Support:
Shader Model 4.0
OpenGL 3.1
Microsoft DirectX 10
3D Vision yes
NVIDIA SLI Multi OS Support yes (This is why I want 2)
NVIDIA CUDA Architecture yes
SDI Option yes
SLI Frame Rendering Support yes
Genlock/Framelock yes
NVIEW Display Management Software yes
FSAA (maximum) 32x
Number of Slots 2
Thermal and Power Specs: EnergyStar Enabling Yes Maximum Power Consumption 189W (Bloody Hell how much power lol)

The following video is a demo of this graphics card rendering in real time!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyg9HgiD8X0&feature=related

And yes It makes mincemeat out of all the games I have.
I finally get my copy of Bad Company 2 tomorrow lets see what it can do to that.

Oh yeah and as for the fan on this thing Nvidia made a small instructional video.........;);)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVjZqC1AE4

See they do have a sense of Humour lol!!!!

Here is the Official Link for the card so you can see for your self what you want to make of it.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_quadro_fx_5800_uk.html

[Ghotimeal]

Bob that card is actually meant for cad, like what it did in the first video you posted. But whatever works right? You got any benchmarks on that? Ive always wondered what a $4000 card would do in games.

[[Team] Kilemal]

Ive always wondered what a $4000 card would do in games.




I haven't . . . .

I think the most I ever paid for a video card was $200

:(

[tinybobdfa]

I never paid for the one I have I got it for nothing! :D:D :eek:

A few months ago they had me testing 2 of them in SLI format I was running CRYSIS in maxed out mode on 3 screens at 1,899 FPS :eek: it took quite abit to get used to the noise but it was worth it.
I just plugged in my headphones and I was fine after that. :D
Hey Ghotimeal it's about to get a re-release over here in the UK.
It's new price is £899.99
So in Nvidia's new mode you can have 4 of these cards linked up, it will sound more like a turbine than a PC lol!!!!
I never got the chance to benchmark test them.
But I will download a benchmark program and see what silliness comes back on the scores.

After I had tested them both my bosses said I could keep 1 as I was a hero being able to take the noise of 2. :D
Stuff having 4 SLIed I would be just as happy to have 2 in SLI.
There is a new card coming out from Nvidia that will put this card to shame.
I never got the chance to test them but I Know the person who did, all I got from his was strange and manic laughter down the phone from him.
Not seen him since he tested that card, I think he's in a NUT house now LOL!!!!!

[Raptor25k]

Yea well personally i think anyone who pays over $500 for a dam video card belongs in a nut house anyways.

And if we were just givin cards like that then a few of us would prolly have one or 2, but unfortunatly most of us are'nt as fortunate as you are.

[tinybobdfa]

Sorry Raptor I did not explain myself to good, I am a hardware tester.
The company I work for (Part-Time) Has me testing mostly for AMD but sometimes I get Nvidia items too. At the odd time every now and then I get a game or two to play with but mostly if it's games it is just one section of a game.
I have the first part to Diablo 3 played it to death and then some, the first patch they sent me was like swiss cheese, Full of holes (bugs n gliches) but since the first patch back in 2008 it is now the finished level and all I can say is.
I can't wait for the full game.

[Raptor25k]

Done a 3d Benchmark with my current ATI Radeon 4870 Compared to a ATI Radeon 5870

Everything in green is my system, everything in red is some other guy with the 5870, the only thing is i don't know if he is using crossfire or not.


http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4831/3dmarkz.jpg

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3152/3dmark2w.jpg

[[Team] Jenifearia]

Yeah I choose by seeing if it is on sale, not expensive, and will work with what I want to do.

[Ghotimeal]

Its the processor speed! Thats a mighty fine bench Rapt. If he had 2 cards it would have specified. Im gonna run again with 1 and the both cards and see what I get.

[Ghotimeal]

He was running multiple cards... I got 15080...:(

[Raptor25k]

Heres my new score after overclocking my 920 to 3.6 ghz

3DMark Score 16899
SM 2.0 Score 6257
SM 3.0 Score 7394
CPU Score 6408

[Raptor25k]

This one is overclocked to 4.0 Ghz

CPU Temp

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2522/tempvd.jpg

3DMark Score 17159
SM 2.0 Score 6302
SM 3.0 Score 7405
CPU Score 6920
Result name Untitled
Date Mar 04, 2010 18:13 UTC
Pro user No
OS Windows 7
CPU Intel Core i7-920 Processor
CPU Speed 4000 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 4870
Memory 8192 MB
Case Not specified
CPU Cooler CoolerMaster V8

I just jacked her up to see what she'd do :D

taking her back down to 3.0 Ghz

[Ghotimeal]

wow ow! NICE!

[Raptor25k]

wow ow! NICE!

That test you did was that with or without crossfire ?

I'm sure your fps were better then mine if your crossfired

[Ghotimeal]

:( crossfired. Im afraid to run it with one card.

[Raptor25k]

Well dam, I figured you would have been higher then me, I wanna see what kinda bench that NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 comes up with

Would be nice to see some benchmarks from other users as well

If you wanna benchmark your pc then download 3D Mark 06 (http://www.gamershell.com/download_55762.shtml) once you have installed it then you need to patch (http://www.gamershell.com/download_55764.shtml) it.

Then just click the Run 3Dmark and let it do its thing, once done click view online results.

[Ghotimeal]

no way jose. All my stuff is a about a year old.