Radeon HD 5850 review (CrossfireX)

[L1qu1d]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5850-review-crossfire/1

Enjoy!

Very impressive

 

[wahjahka]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5850-review-crossfire/1

Enjoy!

Very impressive

thanks for posting this, waiting for this to come out

 

[jennyh]

Already ordered mine 😀

Next will be a native display port lcd, at which point I'll take both that and my card to my friends house and hook up her screen and the screen I have up there for 3x1 eyefinity (only at 3 screens 1680x1050, but i reckon that will be pretty nice too).

Overall I'll probably have spent £550, which is a lot on just 'graphics', but it's less than what the gtx295 cost at launch here. I'll add a second card later and perhaps even go with eyefinity at my friends house if she doesn't mind paying the extra electricity bill 😛

 

[era86]

Just ordered mine on Newegg!

 

[EXT64]

Nice.

Can't you go Display Port to DVI so you don't have to get top of the line LCDs, or does that not work well?

 

[jennyh]

No, you must have a native display port lcd and 2 out of 3 from dvi, dvi and hdmi.

Edit - i'm sure you can adaptor the dvi (ie d-sub to dvi) and hdmi ones, just not the display port. One of your monitors must have a native display port.

 

[EXT64]

Interesting. I didn't know that.

Anyway, what i also liked was the TDP, which I think the article said was lower than before. 150-160W, lower than a 4870! Excellent.