The video card war IS getting out of control

[DainBramaged]

AMD did make quite a splash by launching the first ever DirectX 11-ready Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, and the Radeon HD 5870 has also helped the company to retrieve the performance crown of single-GPU graphics card by beating NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285. Apparently, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 is something which deserves even higher expectations.

Radeon HD 5970 features a very long PCB which measures 13.5 inch (i.e.34.29cm), making it to be the longest ever. The reviewer actually had some problems fitting it into a full-sized tower case like the Antec 1200. According to them, the fan worked at 4700RPM under load, not unexpectedly, too much noise as well.



http://en.expreview.com/2009/10/30/radeon-hd-5970-seen-in-all-its-might.html

[pokerfan]

1. With that heat sink

it looks like a microprocessor in an old-style dual in-line package (DIP).

[DainBramaged]

2. AHHHHH an 8080, brings back fond memories

[pokerfan]

3. I started with a 6502

A very cool architecture and instruction set for its day. Probably the reason why it found its way into the Apple and Commodore home computers along with home and arcade video games of that era. Well, that and it was cheap.

[hunter]

4. The ANTIC / GTIA chips of the 6502 based Atari 8 bits were awesome and elegant.

Now it's just a game of horsepower which is why they need the fans.