me thinks all the leaked benchmarks were all FAKE to generate hype!
it gets beaten by gtx295 in heaps of tests!
disappointed, but I knew it was too good to be true lol!
I think that's why not THAT much people outside of tripleheaders want to get it or over excited about it.
but for me the 5870 at
$372.40 (asumming no shipping charges and with Bing cashback).
is not bad
it is still a faster card than the 9800gx2 and most importantly I can get 1920x1200x3 in games (assumming it works like it should)
it should make my system less hot since i replace a X2 card and allow me to remove my other video card and still have triplehead + 3 monitor independant support
In short for $373 I get the following benefit:
1- better performance
2- less power draw
3- less heat in my system
4- frees up my pciex1 and by allowing me to remove my secondary videocard
5- frees up a USB port used by the Th2g (now I don't have to have a usb hub just because I am just short of one usb port)
6- 1920x1200x3 support in games
7- I don't have to manually flip between DVI and HDMI input buttons on my monitors to switch from single large monitor mode (th2g) to 3 independant monitor mode.
and after selling my 9800GX2 and Th2go I don't really have to pay anything for it. and now I also got a spare FireMV video card (4 dvi monitor support) and a usb hub.
I'm waiting all night for this if I have to. I'm just refreshing the page in hopes of being able to order.
I already sold my Th2g for $255 and extracted + listed my 9800gx2 on ebay a few days ago (auction ends on sunday)
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