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nope i agree it is a great card for a good price no doubt
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5770 & 5750 are out on newegg now.
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Yeah if you plan on to game on it... you'd probably be hard pressed to find something with a lower power consumption with that type of performance on the market currently. Not sure what nVidia will come up with but that will be well into the future for mainstream cards.
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Say you have a HD3300 in the chipset that handles Bluray and Netflix/Hulu (I know, prolly CPU doing those) streaming just fine, and added a 5750 to that system. Would the 5750 stay at 'idle' power levels when the 3300 is doing that sort of stuff, or would it take over the decoding from the 3300 and use more power?
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If anyone buys one make sure to post in this thread, we need some reviewers 
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It's unfortunate that these cards only have a 128bit bus, which is what they think is killing performance (should be higher than high end 4xxx's). Is there a bus width between 128 and 256?
Still nice cards though, cheap way to get eyefinity / DX11 / LPCM 7.1 audio decode at once. Excellent power efficiency too! (Looks in the area of 25-30% more power efficient than 48xx).
Still nice cards though, cheap way to get eyefinity / DX11 / LPCM 7.1 audio decode at once. Excellent power efficiency too! (Looks in the area of 25-30% more power efficient than 48xx).
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Is there a bus width between 128 and 256?
Sure, I think the 8800GS/9600GSO had one.
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I have the 5850. Great card. If I would've waited I could've gotten me 2 5770 and Xfired those in my rig. Oh well I guess I'll have to get me another 5850 so I can go X-fire.
I'm happy with my XFX GPU. I play Crysis Warhead at the highest res. and never lag. It's amazing.
I'm happy with my XFX GPU. I play Crysis Warhead at the highest res. and never lag. It's amazing.
I think these cards are pretty decent for the price point, and will become pretty great once the price drops come in a few months. So much power with so little power draw. 
wickedout: If you don't mind my asking, why are you interested in getting another 5850 for crossfire when you're already playing, with one 5850, Crysis at the highest resolution with no lag? Are there plans down the line to move to a higher resolution display?
wickedout: If you don't mind my asking, why are you interested in getting another 5850 for crossfire when you're already playing, with one 5850, Crysis at the highest resolution with no lag? Are there plans down the line to move to a higher resolution display?
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Well the 4770 had a big problem.... not the card itself but they never got a decent amount of stock. It was always hard to find. That doesnt help lowering the price tag. Another issue with the pricing was that NVIDIA had nothing to fight it with. The 4770 was a great card, too good for the price range.
Also, another good point to consider... 100 dollars 6 months ago isnt the same as 100 dollars today. So prices might appear to be more expensive when in fact the dollar is getting weaker.
Right now I live outside of the US. 6 months ago I was able to buy/sell dollars for 3.23 now I can do that same at 2.81. So the dollar is losing value.
Just giving an outside look for others to see.
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I think these cards are pretty decent for the price point, and will become pretty great once the price drops come in a few months. So much power with so little power draw.
wickedout: If you don't mind my asking, why are you interested in getting another 5850 for crossfire when you're already playing, with one 5850, Crysis at the highest resolution with no lag? Are there plans down the line to move to a higher resolution display?
I have plans to get a better monitor. I'll probably end up with a another Samsung or an Acer. I would like to get a better monitor for higher resolutions. But right now my Samsung T220 is working well.
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Yeah no competition sucks. They launched around $105-$115 and have pretty much stayed there. Only now can you get one for $95, and the 5750 has obsoleted it. If they (4770) ever went down even to $85 I would have been all over it.
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I bet ATI will do a 5830 to fill the price gap between the 5770 and the 5850. I'm gonna call it and say 1000 or 1200SPs. and of course the 256bit memory bus.
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It's unfortunate that these cards only have a 128bit bus, which is what they think is killing performance (should be higher than high end 4xxx's). Is there a bus width between 128 and 256?
Still nice cards though, cheap way to get eyefinity / DX11 / LPCM 7.1 audio decode at once. Excellent power efficiency too! (Looks in the area of 25-30% more power efficient than 48xx).
It doesn't scale linearly with memory speed increases so no the bus width doesn't hold it back. Dang that's a myth that just won't die
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Review of Xfire HD5770's vs GTX260's in sli:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20684
At the moment, the GTX260 still is very strong and manages to get overall better framerates in most games still with sli than the HD5770. Weird how they made the 5770 slower than the HD4870, I am sure they could have made it the same at least :S
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20684
At the moment, the GTX260 still is very strong and manages to get overall better framerates in most games still with sli than the HD5770. Weird how they made the 5770 slower than the HD4870, I am sure they could have made it the same at least :S
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/facepalm
5770 is not a high end part it is mainstream .4870 is a high end part and so is 5870 .Also ATI cards been overclocking rather solidly and most reviews site large improvements once the card is overclocked.
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What I meant was, it has the same sp's as a HD4870, higher core and memory clock speed, and is basically a HD4870 with DX11. I would have thought with the same amount of cores + higher clock speed would mean a faster card, no?
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