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but only if Amd could make their Cpu's this nice I would have a reason not to buy Intel for my rigs and laptops

I WANT RAW POWER AMD ]]>Oct 31st 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Almost as intelligent as "first".]]>Oct 31st 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
Phenom II X4 series are great CPU's. The top Core i7's are just too beast though.]]>Nov 1st 2009 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
FURTHERMORE, I don't know how the game-component-importance pie chart works for the average consumer, but for me, graphics don't mean jack-shit if the story is also jack-shit. IMO, we as a gaming community need to focus on story more than graphics.]]>Oct 31st 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
The developers don't really give a crap about what the consumers have at the time..it's up to the game makers to deal with that. The folks who made Crysis were more interested in a future-resistant game engine...which they've clearly accomplished.]]>Nov 1st 2009 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
I think you misunderstood me, or I didn't elaborate enough: I appreciate the existence of the engine. Like a console, it's made to be maxed out over a number of years, instead of on its first game/project. What I'm against is the Crysis aspect: once you think about it, Crysis is barely a game; it's more of a CryEngine demo with a FPS interface. As I said in the end, for the guy with a 8000 dollar rig, he'll be pumped, but since the majority of consumers aren't buying such computers, they won't get to see the graphical improvement. My ideal plan (in this case) would be to have a scaled-down Crysis with a bigger emphasis on story at time of release, and a Crysis 2 or 3 with maxed-out graphics, and since it's an evolution of graphics, there's a greater concentration of story-telling than there would be if they instead focused on just the 'pretty colors'. As the poster we are actually commenting to said, this new card can run Crysis at a fairly reasonable price (I'm assuming he's correct, I haven't checked myself). This is an indication that now would've been the best time to pimp a Crysis game for the bigger base of consumers.]]>Nov 1st 2009 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/You obviously haven't spent much time with either of the games. Also play a few rounds of wars atleast and tell me this is "just graphics".
Also I think the 5970 naming is sligtly odd, I think the X2 monica was one that made product their placement clearer.]]>Nov 1st 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
Sick and tired of games being released with graphics options that you just can't turn up to the max and play at a decent framerate even with the latest technology at the time of a game's release.

Look at Half-Life (the first one)... top of the fps charts for years because they spent more time being creative (with other things like the storyline) instead of filling it with tons of eye-candy that only computers of future generations can enjoy.]]>Nov 1st 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
From a business stand point, developing one engine that will last for 8 years is a serious benefit. How often has a game been delayed because they keep reworking that new engine?]]>Nov 1st 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
we had


CS - back in the days of Voodoo 3
Quake 3
Doom 3
even Supreme Commander

were all games that were REALLY hard to run when they were released.]]>Nov 1st 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/So while Voodoo2's may make every game look like total crap the fact that id optimizes their engines so well is why you can do this:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Doom_3_Voodoo_2_screenshots
lol]]>Nov 1st 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
I also apologize if somehow Risk actually has an actual third leg he was referencing instead of his penis and I was the only one not aware of this.]]>Nov 1st 2009 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
Don't worry, I don't think your a huge nVidia fanboy covering your tracks by saying you love ATI.]]>Oct 31st 2009 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
btw if you have dual HD 5000 cards can you run dual Eyefinity setups? as in 12 monitors? im guessing not but how stupidly awesome would that be.]]>Nov 1st 2009 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
Sure, it'll be faster, but not by a huge amount as hype would want you to believe. Most sites are suggesting the top of line single GPU card will be 10% to 15% faster than 5870, which makes sense considering Fermi is basically gt200 doubled with new features thrown in.

Problem is, Fermi is a larger chip making it hotter and more hungry than 5870 and more expensive to produce. It's gonna be in short supply and cost a bomb.]]>Nov 1st 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 1st 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
TF2 isn't that hard. Load up Crysis at max settings and your crossfire 4870's working hard to keep up. I've got two of them too. A pair of those cards is fairly nice, but they are far from as unstoppable as I thought they might be.

As for your Eyefinity question, I saw a picture of them running 24 monitors off of 4 "Eyefinity" edition cards. So yes, I think you can scale the monitors with each additional card, however, for normal consumers of the non-Eyefinity edition cards, the cards support 3 monitors instead of 6, and the driver's that will make them all play nicely together might need some smoothing out this early in the game.]]>Nov 1st 2009 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/
However, I would like to mount them in portrait formation. Anyone know how to do that with monitors whose stands were not specifically designed for hold it it portrait?]]>Nov 1st 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 2nd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Nov 2nd 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/atis-dual-gpu-radeon-hd-5970-pictured-in-the-wilderness/Oct 31st 2009 9:28PM