I know a lot of people do not put much stock into The Inq and The Register but when it comes to stories like this, I've seen them right often enough since ~2000 to believe them more often than not.
I have seen them break news that other sites didn't pick up for a week, and they are the ones who broke the story about the massive Layoffs at EDS when HP bought them out. This directly affected the people I deal with on a daily basis since EDS has the IT contract where I work. They weren't even aware that they would lose 50% of their staff until I showed them the story...
When The Inq tells you you are losing 50% of your staff before your own company tells you, it speaks volumes not just about how ****ty a company you work for, but also the ability of the Inq staff to liquor someone up and get them to spill the beans early, lol
As for the graphics cards, I suppose I "could" Xfire a pair of 5870s, and the performance would be better than a 5970, but that damn fan sound would kill me.
I need to see if Scythe Musashi fits the 5870 cards. (I sold my 4870s and the guy had me reinstall the OEM Heatsinks on them so I have the two Musashi kits on a shelf)
The one "con" of those musashi heatsinks is that you cannot use both Xfire bridges if you have musashi coolers on both cards because one of the bridges gets blocked
I'd have to run 1 musashi and leave on the OEM heatsink on the other...I think I could live with that, ot maybe take tin snips to the other musashi to make it accespt the other bridge...