Radeon HD 5970 Seen in All Its Might [Expreview.com]

[Killswitch]

A buddy sent me this link over MSN tonight. What a monster of a card at 13.5 inches long!
I'm not sure if anyone else posted this here yet, but if so I apologize.
Beware this could be a bunch of BS though since it's mentioned that the fan runs up to 4700rpm when the card is under load. That's a tad much. lol

Radeon HD 5970 Seen in All Its Might - Expreview.com

[Spaceman-Spiff]

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[Sushi Warrior]

5970 is the 5870X2. So it's already been posted.

[Killswitch]

Originally Posted by Sushi Warrior

5970 is the 5870X2. So it's already been posted.

Yeah I knew that but I didn't see it was already up. Ah well.

http://alienbabeltech.com/abt/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17968 supposedly has benchies up though. It's giving me a message saying "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."

[ayah]

The length of that card.. is scary. Won't the PCB flex if it's only held by one side? Just the PCI-E x16 slot, and a screw in the bracket by the connectors.

[FiXT]

lol@ bandwidth limit exceed

[ImmaPC]

Holy snap. Will they make the 5970X2?

I don't think it would flex because it has what looks like some little plastic thingie that keeps it straight. I don't like the design of the shroud for the thing, it's all...funky. I don't like the slots in the shroud either. Lots of heat going to get dumped into the case, especially if you have two chips on full load, and a lovely 4700RPM fan.

If I were to buy this thing I'd honestly tape those slots shut, and then cut a bigger hole for the air to go through. Not so that the vent is all slotted, literally so that it's one big hole where the outputs are. WIN.

[ayah]

Originally Posted by ImmaPC

Holy snap. Will they make the 5970X2?

That'd be terrifying. I guess it'd have to be dual-PCB and 2 GPUs per PCB. 6 power plugs on it. I wonder how hot it would run at load

[ImmaPC]

Nah, I'd betcha somehow they'd manage to do it with 2 8-pin plugs. The idiotic dual-PCB thing has been done before, now they only have to step it up to 2 GPU's / PCB. Fking WIN!

[ayah]

Originally Posted by ImmaPC

Nah, I'd betcha somehow they'd manage to do it with 2 8-pin plugs. The idiotic dual-PCB thing has been done before, now they only have to step it up to 2 GPU's / PCB. Fking WIN!

You'd need like chilled watercooling just to keep it from turning the air around it into plasma :P