So I am not too impressed with the gtx 480. So I want a 5970 but.....

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Where are they? They have not had inventory of these cards for what now? More than 2 months? What the hell is going on? lol I just do not understand why there are NONE of these cards anywhere. I wanted to wait and see how the gtx 480 would perform to see if I would be interested. I am not. OK, so ATI I now want to purchase your product, but ummm yea its not there!! Why? When are we going to see stocks of these cards again?

Also... I am not too sure of the purpose of this 2gb version of the 5870. Isn't that just the 5970? I mean the 5970 is 2gb right? I know the 5870 2gb would be a single card, but is that the sole purpose of it? Just to have a single card that will be 2gb? It just does not really make sense to me. Logic would say that a 2gb 5870 would still be roughly half the speed of a 5970.

Thanks for anyone who can kinda clear this up for me :love:
 
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Yes, however since the 5970 is "crossfire on a stick" it has an effective memory of only 1GB. Each GPU uses 1 GB of ram. So whenever you see a card, divide the ram on the card by the number of GPUs.

Now a 5870 2 GB would have a full 2 GB of usable ram.
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Yes, however since the 5970 is "crossfire on a stick" it has an effective memory of only 1GB. Each GPU uses 1 GB of ram. So whenever you see a card, divide the ram on the card by the number of GPUs.

Now a 5870 2 GB would have a full 2 GB of usable ram.
 
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Ohhhhh I see. Wow I never knew that. I learned something new today. So the gtx 295 for example is not actually 1700 mb of video ram.... interesting. Um yea I run a 2560x1600 reso so a 2gb card might come in handy for meh.
 
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But still I would doubt that a 3x 2gb 5870 setup would out do a crossfire 5970. Unless I get really nuts and go for the 4x motherboard!! I just wish the 5870 scales as good as the gtx 480 does in sli/crossfire :??:
 
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I got a mobo with 3x PCIe just in case I wanted to triple up a card. But right now it def looks like the 5970 in crossfire is the best way to go for a monster set up. I would go 3x gtx 480, but from what I hear the heat that would cause would just be INSANE. Yea I love my 2560x1600 screw multiple monitors. I could not stand the bezel. 2560x1600 is where its at! Worth every penny IMO
 
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OK but here is the thing. How do I get them besides dressing in black and sneaking in one of ur guys houses and stealing it from u in the middle of the night? :non: There are 0 stock levels. I just do not understand this at all :(
 
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The cards are still trickling into the market, you have to put Newegg or whoever you plan on buying it from on the "auto notify". The usually disappear in a couple of hours.

Id guess thats where all the Ebayers are getting them and jacking another $100 on the price tag. Even the ones that "auction" go for 680+35 and up for shipping.
 
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how do u know i dont have an invisible cloak? Exactly... thats what i though... but yea I hope there are healthy stocks of the 5970 soon. I mean why would ATI not wanna take advantage of nvidia as much as they can when they know they have the better card. Crazzzzy
 
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