DAAMIT HD5xxx (Evergreen)

[Arcmanov]

Waaayyyyyy...supplies SO bad?

I knew there was a reason why I just didn't want one.  I'm kida glad now that I went the 5850 route.
When everybody realises the uber price/performance value of 2 x 5850, those will become extinct as well.

[Spazosaurus]

Even the 5850s keep going in and out of stock. Nowhere can you find it below $300us now. That $274 I got them for was a fluke just as i suspected.

I thought TSMC yields were improving.

[Arcmanov]

Check THIS one out...



Eyefinity in action at CES 2010.

...I think I just shat myself. 

[Spazosaurus]

2 4870's gave me high frames, but the 5850's giving me buttery smoothness that the 48 could not always supply. Not to mention maxed out aa and textures.

Pure bliss.

[TriniXaeno]

5850 @ $285 @ the friendly neighbourhood amazon

This is a buy or no buy @ that price?

http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-100282SR/dp/B002R5AB8W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1263044276&sr=1-1

hmm, I see a single 5850 beats a 4870x2 @ 1920x1200

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd5850/15.htm

[Spazosaurus]

definitely worth it if you can spare the coin.

[TriniXaeno]

my 4870 might be hitting the trading grounds soon yes.

but then again, I just being greedy...all my games running @ max already.

Think I'll hold my hand till Christmas yes. Change cpu and gpu then.

[Kraeoss]

hrmm i say wait an get the 5870... worth the wait...imo

[Arcmanov]

More ting from AMD?

[Spazosaurus]

Well, the tigers are out of the bag now its time for thealley cats to be liberated.

[Spazosaurus]

HD 5670 confirmed and review is out.

maybe 9800gtx+ class performance for less than $100us

Sounds like a sweet deal to me.

[Arcmanov]

...wow...not to mention DX11 too.

GJ AMD...once again.

[W1nTry]

The WIN just keeps on rolling

[W1nTry]

Well folks the stop gap for the 5770-5850 has arrived in the form of a 5830. Here's a review on Tom's Hardware

The long and short though: (The Good)

With the introduction of its Radeon HD 5830, AMD has now filled the most obvious price gap in its DirectX 11-capable lineup. The company has also given us another powerful card that takes the torch from the Radeon HD 4890, as it is sent out to pasture.

(The Bad)

What's the worst thing we can say about the new Radeon HD 5830? Well, its launch price is $80 higher than most of the Radeon HD 5770 cards in the wild, and only $60 less than most of the Radeon HD 5850s available. Based on relative performance, this relationship should probably be reversed, as the new card performs much closer to the 5770 than the 5850.

[Spazosaurus]

I shook my head when I read this article this morning. At $240, all one needs to do is put another $60us ($35us in my case when I bought mine) and get a 5850.

The 5830 is not smaller, cooler,quieter in fact it sucks MORE power than the stock 5850 because it is clocked higher to compensate for the lack of ROP's.

Bottom line, there is no excuse for getting this inferior part. If you run out of money in your budget, cheap out on the memory, get a slower cpu, forget the sound card or whatever it takes to get you at least the 5850.

Im a bit surprised at the price point this thing is at, but then again not so much because OBVIOUSLY tsmc is still having serious issues with yield for the 40nm process. We're in March basically and availability of parts seem to be no better than it was at Christmas.

Come end of March when (if?) Fermi does indeed see the light of day, I predict a new set of games called the Browser Olympics will be born where only the best Browser Olympiads will be able to get their hands on one of those cards.

I call dibs as founder of this sport. I cant wait to say "let the games begin".

[W1nTry]

Wait... i'm sure in the review despite the 5830 having a higher power rating, it was better at full load than the 5850.... (temp and power wise) also keep in mind it's a crippled 5870 not a crippled 5850...  That's just me. I have to agree though why not find the extra few buck and spring for the 5850... let's wait to see if there is a 'soft mod' 5830-5870' in the pipe, yuh know with these limited release products it'd be good publicity when ppl can do that (at least sometimes) it give ppl things to write about and rave about.... just food for thought.

[Spazosaurus]

Indeed, interesting thought. Maybe we can have a repeat of the nvidia 6800 vanilla 12 pipe card with 4 unlockable pipes that put the card VERY close to the 6800gt and within spitting distance of the gtx.

Only then would it make sense...in fact, that will be something of a wet dream for those who get their hands on one.

[Prowl]

Browser olympics, lol capt that began with ebay, this just makes it a non pro sport and now a consumer feeding frenzy.

BTw I got my 5850 for $260 off amazon, now waiting for it to get close again for another

Oh my 920 just came in, the broswer olympic athletes beat be to the $499 960 tray special, there were like a 1000 going for that price and in less than 10 min all were gone, meh the lagg between Trinidad and amazon was enough for me not to get one I guess.


Oh a cool note on the 5850 oc ability, I had a crazy idea of using a vacuum cleaner to SUCK air from the vent ports

crazy but it did work to allow this

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/aungn/

990 core 1215 ram, tho the card caused a bosd ass soon as I hit submit and complete cause I wasn't holding the vacuum to it

[TrinireturnofGamez]

  AMD-ATI supposedly have a refresh of Evergreen ready in case Fermi turns out to be a monster , if they can get their refreshed gpu to run at anywhere near Prowl's overclocks ^^ they may have nothing to worry about from fermi, even if fermi is 30% faster than a 5870 , a superclocked evergreen card would shrink that margin to 15 or 10% and still be sold at a lower price point than Fermi.
 
  Plus the new 'Northern islands' architecture at year end .

[Prowl]

your assuming that fermi even gets off the ground.