HD 5870

[i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness]

I have an HD 5870 and 5770 lying around. Here are stock images for comparison.

 

The 5870 looks like the 5770 got an erection, haha.

 

I put the 5870 in my rig sideways, looks really clean that way.

 

Why doesn't anybody make blower cards this nice anymore? At 1GHz core and 1400MHz memory the card barely reaches 60c. And it hasn't been cleaned since release...

[TheRandomness]

Because compared to open-air cards, blower style ones tend to run louder and hotter. ATI only got away with cards like this back then because the 5000 series in general were amazingly power efficient for the performance.

[AntiTrust]

pretty damn sexy I agree

[i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness]

3 minutes ago, AntiTrust said:

pretty damn sexy I agree

*ahem*

[W-L]

19 minutes ago, i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness said:

I have an HD 5870 and 5770 lying around. Here are stock images for comparison.

The 5870 looks like the 5770 got an erection, haha.

I put the 5870 in my rig sideways, looks really clean that way.

Why doesn't anybody make blower cards this nice anymore? At 1GHz core and 1400MHz memory the card barely reaches 60c. And it hasn't been cleaned since release...

They're not that amazing as a cooler for the noise they output, I still have a 5870 sitting around and if you really push it you get your airplane simulator kicking into high gear. 

 

18 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Because compared to open-air cards, blower style ones tend to run louder and hotter. ATI only got away with cards like this back then because the 5000 series in general were amazingly power efficient for the performance.

"efficient" don't forget a 250W TDP  

[i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness]

22 minutes ago, W-L said:

They're not that amazing as a cooler for the noise they output, I still have a 5870 sitting around and if you really push it you get your airplane simulator kicking into high gear. 

 

"efficient" don't forget a 250W TDP  

In testing performance was around that of a GTX 460 or GTX 470, and if you think Fermi sucked power...

[TheRandomness]

22 minutes ago, W-L said:

They're not that amazing as a cooler for the noise they output, I still have a 5870 sitting around and if you really push it you get your airplane simulator kicking into high gear. 

 

"efficient" don't forget a 250W TDP  

The 5770 drew about 120W under max load  At 40nm, and for the performance it offered, that’s impressive. 

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

The 5770 drew about 120W under max load  At 40nm, and for the performance it offered, that’s impressive. 

The days where you could by an aftermarket GPU cooler that rivaled the CPU. I still remember my 5870 hitting 80C at max fan speeds on a stock blower cooler, kinda good yet disappointing that the 5870 is superseded way back by the 750ti days. 

[i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

I still remember my 5870 hitting 80C at max fan speeds

Yours must have been broken. At 1.25v and 1050MHz core, mine tops out at 65c after playing Skyrim at 1080p for a few hours. Skyrim is very much a GPU intensive game, on my laptop, which has a GTS 450 (basically), the GPU is maxed out while my dual-core i5 sits around 25-30%.

 

Either yours was broken or mine's just a really, really good bin. If I push the voltage to 1.35v I can get 1.2Ghz on the core and 1500 on memory, and the memory can go higher without artifacting.

[W-L]

Just now, i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness said:

Yours must have been broken. At 1.25v and 1050MHz core, mine tops out at 65c after playing Skyrim at 1080p for a few hours. Skyrim is very much a GPU intensive game, on my laptop, which has a GTS 450 (basically), the GPU is maxed out while my dual-core i5 sits around 25-30%.

 

Either yours was broken or mine's just a really, really good bin. If I push the voltage to 1.35v I can get 1.2Ghz on the core and 1500 on memory, and the memory can go higher without artifacting.

I think I recall overclocking it overly high at one point so that might be what why I was getting such high temps, could also have been the silicon lottery not playing my factor. Good performance though especially for gaming and 3D work back then. 

[i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

I think I recall overclocking it overly high at one point so that might be what why I was getting such high temps, could also have been the silicon lottery not playing my factor. Good performance though especially for gaming and 3D work back then. 

Yeah, it does Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas really well.