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Old 25th August 2010, 16:56   #1
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Default XFX lets loose the $1,200 Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition graphics card

XFX's limited edition DirectX 11 card comes in an assault rifle-shaped enclosure and is offered with a P90-themed LAN bag, and no less than six display adapters. Spec wise, the dual-slot Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition Limited has 3200 Stream Processors, a GPU clock of 850 MHz, a 2x256-bit memory interface, a memory frequency of 4800 MHz.


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Ditch the packaging sillyness and reduce the price
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Ditch the extra 2Gb sillyness and reduce the price even further
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Ditch the card ?
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Buy the card and ditch it on ebay with a higher price
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For starters review the card so we know if it's any good.


3200 shader processors, my god what a beast!
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http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...fications.aspx
it's an oc'ed HD 5970, surely to be quick.

but at $1200 you can buy 3x480GTX in SLI which will simply destroy this card in every benchmark known to man; 2x480 GTX already beat 3xHD5870 @ high res



this card at $1200 makes zero sense;
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...f_6.html#sect4
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XFX lets you loose $1,200 with their Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition graphics card?
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