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Then who stolz my Mhz?

He said "tentacles". That's a tough word to find good use for :p

2x HIS Radeon HD 5870's here, both running smoothly. In fact, since I'm running them on the EVGA P55 SLI, they're literally stacked on top of each other with little room between them. Manually running the one with restricted air flow at higher fan speed to compensate. The only issues I've had...

Voodoolights was my last screensaver as well! I had forgotten that one! Been a long time since I used a SS.

I'm with Steve on this one. What's wrong with saying ALL of the greetings? It's more merry that way anyway, everybody gets in on the fun!

It's also the country with lowest poverty rate, you have to REALLY want to live on the streets to end up on them, unlike here where you can be laid off, unable to find work that paid as well, lose your home and everything else and end up on the streets. Go figure. They're doing something right.

I think more war crimes issues raised in gaming would be great actually. It would add a level of realism and stress that combat games are still missing to this day. Some sense of "If I shoot that civvy, I could lose my freedom if I get caught" kinda thing would just make it more intense...

The GTX295 was dissapointing because having a few games that don't support SLI at all, the rendering drops back to single GPU, and a single GPU of the GTX295 is only about 2/3's as fast as a 5870. Plus, the image quality just looked better out of the box. With the GTX295 (and every Nvidia card...

A short story: I bought my new setup 2 weeks ago. Originally, it included a single Diamond Radeon HD 5870. That card died after 3 days use. Since I bought it all at Fry's, I took back the 5870 and used the store credit to buy the only comparable card they had in stock, a EVGA GTX295. After 2...

If the difference were between, say, 50 and 63, I'd be sweating it. But we're dealing in the double of that, right now at least. Next years games may make that a different story, who knows, eh? :D

I covered that point. It's not a point at all. Not at my resolution of use. If I was pushing out 2560+ resolutions, sure, it could be an issue. But Eyefinity isn't something I intend to invest in at this point, nor is a 30" monitor.

Without trying to sound like I'm trying to play off of your words, this is a big issue. The 5870 is indeed a sizable card and even my Antec Twelve Hundred finds the cards blocking drive bays. Anything of a smaller case and the cards would be IN the drive bays!

I don't have SLI 5870's. I have CrossfireX 5870's :p And the reason is that when I do choose to overclock my CPU eventually, the new 860 hits 4Ghz so easily it's silly. My 920 is a C0 so gets flaky over 3.8Ghz, runs best at 3.6Ghz. So, whenever I do get ready to pour on the steam, I'll have...

Honestly, monitor size will be the best determination of that answer. If you have a 26-30" monitor, then yes, the 5870 will be worth the extra 100 bucks. Granted, I have a pair of 5870's on only a 25" monitor, but I'm thinking that my good fortune right now may not continue throughout the year...