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..please post 'em as you find 'em :)

If your Italian is good, or you can translate google translate the first review I have seen is here

Seems to be better than a 285 but not much of a jump over a 295 :( (on the 30" res anyway)

Looking forward to the 2gb reviews. And I really want answered- if I get 3 of these and run one display of each- without CF, will it work and what performance?

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sigh mach beat me to it, ill try and watch for "here" little links, change it to something a little more descriptive like "Radeon 5870 Review (Toms Hardware Itali)" as the link please and sorry again.

...aahhh did you check my link LOL?

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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!

guru 3d review is up

update: HardOCP + amandtech

Radeon 5870 Review (Guru 3d)

Radeon 5870 Review (Hardware Canucks)

Radeon 5870 Review (HardOCP)

Radeon 5870 Review (Amandtech)

A good set of review links up at DailyTech

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Hexus: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20289&page=1

and there is one CF there as well.

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Oz PC World: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/pc_components/amd/ati_radeon_hd5870/319629

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I read legit review & anandtech, a bit of info on there.

It was mentioned with this first release of the 5870 card that has 2x dvi, 1x hdmi, and 1x DP that you can not use both dvi ports + hdmi at the same time because the hdmi port shares something with one of the dvi ports. So you have to use an active display port --> dvi adapter.

Anybody know how much one of those cost?

Im looking at the 5870 as both a Matrox and a GPU in one, its the only way I can justify upgrading from my dual 4850's since the performance gain while higher wont be huge.

I know the 4870 is just a tad faster than the 4850, so they have the 4870X2 in a lot of tests and that is basically just two 4870's so thats how I figure my baseline of performance. Infact with my OC my dual 4850's = a 4870X2 and its only right behind the new 5870.

I do get to reduce my idle power a lot though, so that should mean a cooler room and that was another reason I wanted to go from 2 cards to just 1.

I have a feeling eyefinity will boost the number of people interested in surround gaming, and hopefully that in turn produces the demand for more games to support ultra wide fov and resolutions out of the box.

I really wonder what this is going to do to Matrox though.

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I am pretty sure you won't need an active adaptor unless you are using a res higher than 1920x1200, so the adaptors aren't that much.

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