VPN: 21165-00-51RSapphire Radeon HD5970 725MHZ 2GB 4.0GHZ DDR5 PCIe 2XDVI 1XMINI DisplayPort CrossFireX Video Card
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/01/10 |
Sapphire Radeon HD5970 725MHZ 2GB 4.0GHZ DDR5 PCIe 2XDVI 1XMINI DisplayPort CrossFireX Video Card
Cons:
- Size? haha NO, the bigger the better!!! If you can't fit this card in your case than you need to do your card justice and get a case worthy of it... that simple.- Can only crossfire 2 of these cards!!! PLEASE READ THIS. That means only a total of 4 GPUS (2 per card) because there is only ONE CROSSFIRE BRIDGE!
Pros: - Stock cooler by Sapphire (plate in particular) works very well to keep VRM and GPU temps reasonable considering the performance.- Sapphire quality, forget XFX and whatnot these guys know what they are doing, nice to have that piece of mind.- Sapphire driver support from Sapphire website, these drivers are better than ATI's in term of stability... at least from my experience.- Fan noise is extremely quiet, I don't know how they did this without sacrificing cooling but this is way way more quiet than my previous 2 XFX 4870's in crossfire. I don't know what the previous post is talking about, i have never had this issue with a rattling noise. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/24/10 |
Sapphire Radeon HD5970 725MHZ 2GB 4.0GHZ DDR5 PCIe 2XDVI 1XMINI DisplayPort CrossFireX Video Card
Cons:
-The fan.-The fan.-The ******* fan rattle at low speed.
Pros: -Stellar performances.-Very respectable amount of noise from stock cooling at mid and full speed.-Good bundle overall : DP to HDMI connector, DVI to HDMI connector, Dirt 2. Comment:
I was using an old Asus GeForce 8800GTX before. This is my first ATI card since I bought an MSI TI-4200 way back in the days.The performances are great, the fan does less noises at mid and high speed than my old 8800GTX which is kinda great.Overall, it's really a great, great video card.The only bad things about this card, and it's a major one, is that the fan rattle at low speed in games. Just like that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvewfaXJevgAnd it's not an isolated problem. It looks like that you have 50% of chances that the fan will do something like that just right out of the box.So I decided to not bother with the RAM and I bought this baby : http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=53749&vpn=ACCELX5900&manufacture=Arctic%20CoolingIf you have the money to buy this card, you should have the money to buy this cooler and I highly recommand it for this card.Now, it's dream come true! |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/16/10 |
Sapphire Radeon HD5970 725MHZ 2GB 4.0GHZ DDR5 PCIe 2XDVI 1XMINI DisplayPort CrossFireX Video Card
Cons:
huge, i doubt this will fit in anything but a full tower case
Pros: 2 gpu's one card2gb vid memorydirectx11 Comment:
amazing performance, but you have to pay for itbfbc2 and metro2033 are the only games I can see a difference from my previous 9800 gtx + sli setup |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/28/10 |
Sapphire Radeon HD5970 725MHZ 2GB 4.0GHZ DDR5 PCIe 2XDVI 1XMINI DisplayPort CrossFireX Video Card
Cons:
somewhat loud at full blast (expected), included game sucks (DIRT), FPS still drops in metro (badly coded IMO every other game flies)
Pros: most powerful card on the market, cooler is very efficient, chicks on card are sexy. Comment:
Most powerful GFX card available. High tech cooler (vapor chamber, FDB fan). about 100$ more than 480 and 30-40% more performance gives it amazing performance/cost ratio. also less expensive than dual 5870s and physically identical (same cores and memory), only clocks are lower. |
We saw the launch of the NVidia 470 & 480. Now considering the 5970 has 2 GPU's that stay cool under stock clocks and stock ram and out perform their rival NVidia cards you must give credit to Sapphire for making this card with no over heating issues. I got Dirt 2 free with it, nice Sapphire case badge, some cables, everything you'd expect. Down the road I plan to get one more of this card and water cool both of them. This review was modfied by poster @ 08-01-10 02:11 AM