LIGHTNING competitor - Gigabyte SOC2 5870
 

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22657

gigabyte ...also has something similar to msi afterburner ......not sure if its like the afterburner extreme edition...

it has pwm for voltage control too :)

with the binning they're doing..these might be good :)

and gigabyte competitions on hwbot....they might be opening some competitions for these cards....

I think Fugger and Mike benched this card a few days ago if i'm not mistaken

yep its the one they clocked really good on vantage...

GIGABYTE GV-R587SO-1GD Radeon HD 5870
 

Got mine today with the Lightning money, let's see how it clocks under Ln2! :thumbsup:


Now I only need Asus to send me a Rampage III Extreme...


Edit: Not bad on the hands of Andre: http://hwbot.org/community/submission/988590_

Just short of 1.5ghz.. nothing to sneeze at for sure!

Man I want one, but still delaying as I will not be back in action until June

The Matrix may change the ladscape ....

4 please :D

fixed ;)

lol, I would be happy with 2

If it takes 14 to bin 4 good ones, these will be no better than the lightnings :blink:

480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)

+100000000000000000000

I wish Amazon would ship my dammed preorder so I could find out :morpheus:

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:

^^ 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.

I'll say that it takes 40 to get 4 cherry examples.

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:

jesus christ, what are these companies doing

Shitting where they eat?

More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves... :ohcrap:

seriously, where is my toothbrush

this is bad....

the pre-release...like andreyangs card seem to have an unlocked bios...

i think even the pre-released lightnings have an unlocked bios....

lucky prerelease card owners....doing lots of advertising..:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:

Advertising gimmicry. They know we're a drop in the bucket and they'll never make any money off us. Especially since what we buy will likely get killed and need replacing over and over.

Give a few guys cherry picked unlocked stuff with data sheets and mod suggestions, grab some headlines, then sell all the gamers a bunch of cards with software and BIOS intentionally crippled to prevent mass RMA's.

Sounds feasible and fixable if its just a matter of getting the bios from the "Pros". :ohcrap:

msi and gigabyte has been tight lipped about special stuff...unless given to their posterboys hicookie and some.

:ohcrap:they're partners with hwbot!!!

RMA time if that don't work dispute with CC company. My CC company is all to happy to revrse charges and returning the product is not a requirement. I just haveto prove I requested an RMA and they refused.

BenchZowner:
"I'm 98% sure that it's a change from the engineers that made the "old" software not to function properly.
The Vddci, Vpci-express & Vmem work just fine, so unless I'm mistaken and my info is bad about Gigabyte fixing this, this shall be fixed soon with a new version of the utility by Gigabyte".

Hopefully!

Scratch that ^^

Tested my retail today and OC Guru software works fine, you can tune vgpu and vmem there, it's very good.

Did some air testing 1100/1400 today.

sweet!

Nice results on air Jor ............ :thumbsup:

In for the clod results bro :cool3:

whats max voltage in the software?

1.30vgpu and 1.70vmem :thumbsup:

I will mod it next week and then you will be able to tune vgpu from 1.40 to 1.65v thru software.

Sick man... wish I had those modin skills

Can't wait to see how it does ....

I am still up in the air on my next global card

Hey Jor,

How does it handle voltage memory?

My lightning artifacts hard at 1.72v.

1.72? damn that sounds high...what was stock voltage on those?

I don't remember. :blush:

Modded, I'm sitting at 1.67v minimum and that only gets me another 20-30 Mhz.....

the mem on SOC is epic, 1400+ probably wont net much gain but damn thats sick

Yeah these Hynix are great...

It does take voltage really well I used 1.70 just to see how it goes and it's really smooth, for 1400Mhz you don't need to raise volts it does that stock.

I well test a little more today on air for PCM5 2x core and then it's time to mod and ln2. :thumbsup: