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Dentlord 04-16-2010 11:49 AM
480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)

Hondacity 04-16-2010 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by dentlord (Post 35840)
480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)
+100000000000000000000

MaadDaawg 04-17-2010 02:08 PM
I wish Amazon would ship my dammed preorder so I could find out :morpheus:

Jor-El 04-17-2010 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Dentlord (Post 35840)
480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondacity (Post 35846)
+100000000000000000000
I only recommend this card for people that hate nvidia and without any 3d scores (like me). It's a great start and if it hits 1400/1400 it's easy to sell. :thumbsup:

Neuromancer 04-17-2010 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Jor-El (Post 35984)
I only recommend this card for people that hate nvidia and without any 3d scores (like me). It's a great start and if it hits 1400/1400 it's easy to sell. :thumbsup:
You are telling me to buy a 480?:ohcrap:

Jor-El 04-20-2010 05:06 AM
^^ Yes!

Another big disappointment on the retail OC ed. 5870 department:

- Gigabyte choose to lock the SOC Tuner for retail version (no IC support), in other words you will get the 5870 SOC retail edition with a bundled software called SOC Tuner that will not work!!!!

No voltage tunning on the retail cards.

Only hardmods. The good news is the hardmod is easy and the Hynix memory runs 1420Mhz on air with stock volts.

ReverendMaynard 04-20-2010 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Gunslinger (Post 35803)
If it takes 14 to bin 4 good ones, these will be no better than the lightnings :blink:
I'll say that it takes 40 to get 4 cherry examples.

FACE 04-20-2010 05:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Jor-El (Post 36271)
^^ Yes!

Another big disappointment on the retail OC ed. 5870 department:

- Gigabyte choose to lock the SOC Tuner for retail version (no IC support), in other words you will get the 5870 SOC retail edition with a bundled software called SOC Tuner that will not work!!!!

No voltage tunning on the retail cards.

Only hardmods. The good news is the hardmod is easy and the Hynix memory runs 1420Mhz on air with stock volts.
Wouldn't a bios flash rectify that?

Jor-El 04-20-2010 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by FACE411 (Post 36276)
Wouldn't a bios flash rectify that?
It's still very odd why Gigabyte choose not to unlock the SOC Tuner for retail, I mean the card ships with the software but it doesn't work.

I posted on Hwbot and would like you guys to chime in that this is a deal breaker and if Gigabyte doesn't review the software these will go back to RMA as 'defective' item.

Where I came from this is false advertisement. :thumbdown:

Splave 04-20-2010 05:32 AM
jesus christ, what are these companies doing


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