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What's even more annoying however, is when you ask people what the best single slot video card's available today, they end up giving you a list of 2-slot cards... and then they're like "Oh... I thought you meant one PCI-e slot connection"... and I'm like "Yeah? Show me a card with 2 PCI-e connections you dumba**!"

When the HD 4870 was released, I opted for the single slot HD 4850 which has served me well but I feel that they no longer care for producing single slot cards. :<

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It's safe to say that ATI just gave Nvidia a serious run for their money.]]>Sep 30th 2009 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
The HD 5850 is a bit of a lackluster IMHO, exchanges blows with the GTX275 and for slightly higher price. I fail to see where the joy is coming from. Not that it's bad to have competition from ATI, I'm just not all impressed with the HD 5870 little brother.]]>Sep 30th 2009 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
Thanks for playing though. ]]>Sep 30th 2009 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Other than that, thanks for many reviews in one place :)]]>Sep 30th 2009 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
ATI still works out of Ontario right?]]>Sep 30th 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
Linux users really shouldn't be going with Nvidia anymore. ]]>Sep 30th 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
and can I ask what the point of a gaming card for linux is?]]>Sep 30th 2009 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/09/15/nvidia-gt300-yeilds-under-2/

Teehee.]]>Sep 30th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
The crucial difference between nVidia and ATI is that former always concentrates on higher-end marker, while latter - on mass market.

5850 runs most games at 50fps/higher in resolution 1920x1200/higher. That is where mass market is now. But that also stretches right into higher end territory.

Just like it happened in CPU market - everyone wants to have fastest CPU, yet what the point if 2yo s/h chip run perfectly all your games? - same happening now in GPU market now. And it would stay that way unless display resolution wouldn't increase drastically. (Though with Eyefinity ATI apparently prepared even for that.)

Unless nVidia's next gen starts at $200 (a huge surprise; change of business model) I do not see them catching up with ATI.]]>Sep 30th 2009 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
That actually raised my concern that cards sold by ASUS/Sapphire/etc might differ from the reference design. At least in one area I'm quite interested: noise emission of the fan.]]>Sep 30th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/These cards actually process the audio as well(through HDMI anyway). So it's a two in one.

My next card.]]>Sep 30th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
Seeing the 5000 series makes me curious what they are going to put into the Xbox 360 successor 3 years down the line, considering Xenos was way ahead of all other GPUs on the market at the time.]]>Sep 30th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/I experienced it myself, the ATI driver having issues if the monitor doesn't supply info about itself, and countless other issues on xp64 (including coring on boot with several driver versions) since ATI has no idea what they are doing when working on 64bit windows (including vista64)

Not that this isn't a good card though, just be prepared to work for it and browsing forums for fixes.
But the same is true for nvidia just as much, so there's no escaping it.
]]>Sep 30th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/Sep 30th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/ati-radeon-hd-5850-provides-scorching-performance-for-a-relative/
And hopefully they won't be white!]]>Oct 1st 2009 2:59AM