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    ati mobility radeon 5870 hands-on...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by johnnyman27, Jan 25, 2010.

  1. johnnyman27

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    johnnyman27, Jan 25, 2010
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    Those guys are daaaaamn lucky!!!

    ASUS rulez
     
    Ahmed_p800, Jan 25, 2010
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    Alexrose1uk Music, Media, Game

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    Not a bad preview, just a shame they only used 06 as that tends to be more CPU bound than anything else nowadays (although they still commented it was the fastest stock mobile system...but that may be thanks to I7), they also didnt tell us much about the performance in detail, or more intricate bits about the GPUs like do they have native overdrive support, what drivers were they using etc etc.
     
    Alexrose1uk, Jan 25, 2010
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  4. Amnesiac

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    Wow, that's massive.

    I really want one of these.
     
    Amnesiac, Jan 25, 2010
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  5. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    I'm guessing 5.8cm includes the rubber feet? Because 5.8cm excluding rubber feet would make it thicker than the Clevo D900F, which packs desktop CPUs.
     
    dtwn, Jan 25, 2010
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    Yeah, probably so, but rubber feet will probably be 5mm, so it's still pretty huge.
     
    Amnesiac, Jan 25, 2010
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  7. OneCool

    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    Looks good.

    I did expect more out 5870 paired with the i7 though.I guess a better review will be in order before I start complaining to much :D
     
    OneCool, Jan 25, 2010
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  8. drfelip

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    But it's a PRE-view, they have to leave something for the actual review :)
     
    drfelip, Jan 26, 2010
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    umm why are there 2 3dmarks?
     
    trvelbug, Jan 26, 2010
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  10. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Sweet, 128 bit GDDR5. :)
    Cant wait for the reviews to show up, and if it stays "cool" in gaming maybe il get one if i can afford it. xD

    Thanks for sharing the link.
     
    DEagleson, Jan 26, 2010
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    One is at stock speed, the other with "turbo boost" mode.
    I think `12k in 3d06 at stock is not bad at all, That's my score with SLI actually... time to upgradE????
     
    italian.madness, Jan 26, 2010
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    One in normal, and one in Turbo mode (OC'ed both CPU and GPU).
     
    bagienny, Jan 26, 2010
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    Yes, outside of the lower clocks, it seems to perform equally to the desktop 5770. I'm scoring almost 17k on 3dmark but that's because my desktop Core i5 is eating the mobile Core i7 for breakfast.
     
    JCMS, Jan 26, 2010
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    Yea not so sure why some people thought this wasn't what it was supposed to be, its scoring about the same as some high end SLI setups while being effecient, although thei7 does help in 06 a lot.
     
    narsnail, Jan 27, 2010
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    The rubber feet add about 2mm to the height.
     
    iaTa, Jan 27, 2010
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    ninja2000 Mash IT

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    I see the GDDR5 is only running at 1000mhz! I wonder why they didnt bump it to 1100-1150 like the desktop 5750 and 5770? It doesnt seem like a massive leap over GDDR3 800mhz
     
    ninja2000, Jan 27, 2010
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    how does this card is compared with 260m gtx??
     
    johnnyman27, Jan 27, 2010
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    GDDR5=twice as fast as GDDR3. GDDR5 at 1000mhz=GDDR3@500mhz
     
    Lanaya, Jan 27, 2010
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    are you sure it OCs the GPU too? I'm fairly sure that Turbo (at least in every single other asus laptop) only OCs CPU.
     
    Lanaya, Jan 27, 2010
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    That's what she said! :D
    Besides it's not Turbo, it's Twin Turbo :>
     
    bagienny, Jan 27, 2010
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    Geez, that laptop almost beats my desktop in '06.

    Also, that site just makes me appreciate notebookreview more, holy crap reading that hurt my eyes.
     
    fifafreak18, Jan 27, 2010
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