News - AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 X2 "Hemlock" poses for the camera

[HEXUS]

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[marshalex]

how is anyone going to be able to fit one of those inside their case, its HUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!!!!

[Namor]

Make sure you have a HUUUUUUUUUUGE case

I have a TJ07 and it has bags of room for it.

[Fraz]

how is anyone going to be able to fit one of those inside their case, its HUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!!!!

Only way it'd fit in my case is if I took a crowbar to my hard-disk cage...

[Biscuit]

Il be getting the ATCS 840 soon i reckon itl squeeze in there too

[watercooled]

Powered by 6 and 8 pin PCI-E connectors which will mean lower heat output/noise/power draw compared to the 4870x2 hopefully...

[FatalSaviour]

how is anyone going to be able to fit one of those inside their case, its HUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!!!!

Corsair 800D...simples

[laywill]

I want some...

Oh wait, cheap ATX case from Maplins

What beasties!! I think cost isnt going to be the limiting factor with people buying these, its case real-estate!

[OilSheikh]

Bot ATI and Nvidia need to think about power usage issues.
Building powerful cards isnt good enough if they make my electricity bill go high. IMO, they should somehow have a powerful card powered by a single PCIE power

[watercooled]

This one has one 6, one 8 pin which is an improvement over the previous generation at least. Maybe they will release a revised/die-shrunk version with reduced power consumption and maybe only one connector...

[ABCx86]

Size is indeed the main compatability problem. My case has room for a 10.5 inch GFX card, any more than that and the top HDD Cage would have to be removed.

IMO the PCI-E power connectors are not that much of a problem because you can get adaptors anyway. (molex > PCI-E).

[watercooled]

That's not what we're saying - we are talking about power consumption and less connectors implies lower consumption which is a good thing obviously.

[ABCx86]

That's not what we're saying - we are talking about power consumption and less connectors implies lower consumption which is a good thing obviously.

Yes I understand that, but I wasn't talking about power consumption, I was only talking about compatability with most case's and PSU's.

[K404]

This one has one 6, one 8 pin which is an improvement over the previous generation at least.

Its just the same as their last generation. The 4870X2 had the same power connectors on the reference PCB




The thermal limit for GPUs isnt really power or PCB size... its how much heat can be dissipated by a dual-slot cooler. Thats the accepted maximum for them. A tri-slot cooler would be commercial suicide for a reference card, else nV and ATi WOULD be making even more power-hungry cards.

Im glad to see though... that they're making the effort to reduce idle power consumption

I'd like to see both companies introduce tweaked high-end-of-last-gen stuff on new processes re-designed explicitly to use as little power under load as possible. Carbon copies of the specs and MHz. I know that tweaked last-gen stuff, refreshed already exists... but with little/no power reduction

e.g... (for nV) the GTX285 or 295 shrunk right down. Before that, would be the 8800GTS 512 and/or the 8800 Ultra

Lets be honest... CPUs are the bottleneck, there arent any games that cant be played on existing gear....who really needs this much power for gaming.... REALLY

[watercooled]

By bad I actually thought they all had 2 8 pins. I know at least a few did anyway but they might have been OC'd versions or something.

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