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Hey Zeus

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crisium said:
You don't even need SLI 9600GT for that. Isn't 1 fine?
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At 1920X1200 With AA on they perform nicely especially at 4.6Ghz. I bought them for 80 dollars combined waiting for something else to come out. I was waiting on Femi but meh.
 
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Wow, ATI has all the bases covered before Nvidia even shows up to the game.
 
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crisium said:
GT 240 DDR5 is $100, and this is a superior card in virtually every way. Those wanting pure DX10 or less gaming performance at that price range will try to find a 4850 if they can, or a 9800GT. But if you want super low power gaming performance this is the way to go.

It's a 9600GT killer, and that card offered similar performance to an 8800GTS 640MB. Now you can get that same performance (or a bit better) for uber lower power consumption.
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actually benchmarks show that the GT240 barely beats the 9600GT an loses to 9800GT in pretty much everything. It won't be competetive with 5670 at the same price.
 
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Yeah that's what I meant by "this" card - the 5670 is superior to the GT 240. Poor GT 240 had but weeks as the fastest low power card.

Though I still want to see wattage benchmarks on the 550MHz 9800GTs that don't need a power connector. Does their consumption compete with 5670?
 
Hey Zeus

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crisium said:
Yeah that's what I meant by "this" card - the 5670 is superior to the GT 240. Poor GT 240 had but weeks as the fastest low power card.

Though I still want to see wattage benchmarks on the 550MHz 9800GTs that don't need a power connector. Does their consumption compete with 5670?
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According to this review they get stomped.

"For the power consumption, the idle and full load for Galaxy GeForce 9800GT Low Power for our test setup are 151watts and 220watts"

The 5670 had i believe 130watts idle and 183 watts full load
 
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Phynaz said:
Wow, ATI has all the bases covered before Nvidia even shows up to the game.
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That is pretty amazing to me as well. It would appear that by the time Nvidia gets their first Fermi based card out the door AMD will have their entire line up from entry level to dual GPU monster already on the market and have been available for a while. By the time Fermi starts to have decent availability, who knows, AMD may already have a refreshed and tweaked part.

I guess what is so suprising to me about this is that Nvidia had such a huge lead with the 8800 cards compared to AMD's offereings. Nvidia had enough of a lead that they even pretty much skipped doing much of anything for the 9800 series cards, and still had a huge lead.

crisium said:
Yeah that's what I meant by "this" card - the 5670 is superior to the GT 240. Poor GT 240 had but weeks as the fastest low power card.

Though I still want to see wattage benchmarks on the 550MHz 9800GTs that don't need a power connector. Does their consumption compete with 5670?
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Was the GT240 even the 'fastest low power card'? Does anyone have any links that compare the GT240 and 4770? I imagine the 4770 would be a good deal faster, but I don't know how the two would compare in regards to power useage.

*edit - http://www.techspot.com/review/223-gainward-geforce-gt-240-review/

It looks like the GT240 does ues less power overall when compared to the 4770. According to the above link the GT240 uses about 8% less power at load and 14% less at idle. But, that 8 -14% power savngs gets you a card that is only 72% as fast at 1680 res and 67% as fast at 1920 res, going by those benches... and those numbers are a stock 4770 vs. a factory overclocked GT240. Infact the 4770 looks to give you better average frame rates at 1920 res than the GT240 does at 1680 res, if you go by those bench results. So while you save power overall, you get much poorer frames per watt with the GT240 compared to the 4770. So I'd hardly call it the 'fastest low power card'.
 
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I remember reading that the 5670 shouldn't require a 6-pin PCI-E connector. Can anyone confirm? If not, looks like I will be replacing the 4670 in my HTPC. :D
 
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Interested to see some full reviews of the 5670, but i'm sure it'll be a while before it's price effective...unless they EOl the 4850.
 
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Not too bad of performance and I love the reference single-slot cooler. Don't like the high temperature though. I was thinking of grabbing this to replace a 8800GT for my sis's Shuttle, to help it cool down for hot summers, but only if they fix the temperature. Wished there's more mainstream cards with single slot cooler that doesn't get up 90+*C inside a Shuttle.
 
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razor2025 said:
Not too bad of performance and I love the reference single-slot cooler. Don't like the high temperature though. I was thinking of grabbing this to replace a 8800GT for my sis's Shuttle, to help it cool down for hot summers, but only if they fix the temperature. Wished there's more mainstream cards with single slot cooler that doesn't get up 90+*C inside a Shuttle.
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even if it had a better cooler thats still the same amount of actual heat thats getting released. a 5670 uses much less power than an 8800gt so the case will be cooler regardless of the temp of the chip.
 
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Honestly, I'm dissapointed :( I was hoping these would meet and beat my XFX 9800GT EE every step of the way so I could toss out this 9800GT for an HD 5670 but it looks like I'ma be keeping my 9800GT :(

Guess I'll wait for green 5750's
 
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toyota said:
that thing needs to be priced cheaper for sure.
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Considering the 9800GT EE's can be had for $95 - $110 shipped on average I'd agree. I paid $100 shipped for my 9800GT EE and mine OC's to 715/2200 which puts it at the doorstep of 8800GTS performance while using no Pci-E 6-pin. I would have considered OverClocking an HD 5670 a saving grace if OverClocking made as much of a difference with the HD 5670 as it does other cards but the 5670 doesn't seem to get much help from the OverClocking prob because it's pushing the 75w envelope as-is

If the HD 5670 was $80 it would be more at home imho. And don't get me started on the already over-priced GT240 that is also slower than the 9800GT EE but costs the same or more, that is just fn pathetic Nvidia.
 
Hey Zeus

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Can't wait to see what a bios flash and more voltage can be applied to these little cards. 900-950mhz core? We shall see :)
 
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Can't wait to see what a bios flash and more voltage can be applied to these little cards. 900-950mhz core? We shall see :)
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You be the first one to up the voltage and tell us how that BSOD works out for you when the card passes the 75w Pci-E limit :) The 5670 already sits at 61w and nothing ups the power draw and cranks out the heat like am itsy bitsy bit of power not to mention that you decrease your maximum OverClock more than likely as I'd wager that OverClocked to the max on stock voltage a 5670 prob pushes that 75w envelope as-is.

It's like the 9800GT EE, using the 65nm A1 GPU's they become EE cards by droping a mere .5v on the GPU dropping thier board power down to 66w from 110w. Given that thats on a 65nm GPU and the increases shouldn't be that drastic on a 40nm GPU but still, volt modding a board with no Pci-E 6-pin is kind of an act in retardation.
 
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Hey Zeus

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Farfrumhumpn said:
You be the first one to up the voltage and tell us how that BSOD works out for you when the card passes the 75w Pci-E limit :) The 5670 already sits at 61w and nothing ups the power draw and cranks out the heat like am itsy bitsy bit of power not to mention that you decrease your maximum OverClock more than likely as I'd wager that OverClocked to the max on stock voltage a 5670 prob pushes that 75w envelope as-is.

It's like the 9800GT EE, using the 65nm A1 GPU's they become EE cards by droping a mere .5v on the GPU dropping thier board power down to 66w from 110w. Given that thats on a 65nm GPU and the increases shouldn't be that drastic on a 40nm GPU but still, volt modding a board with no Pci-E 6-pin is kind of an act in retardation.
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Shit i can't find the review where it had the o/c results. The sapphire 1GB card went from 775 to 925 core and the memory was at 4.2Ghz if i'm not mistaken :)
 
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Farfrumhumpn said:
You be the first one to up the voltage and tell us how that BSOD works out for you when the card passes the 75w Pci-E limit :) The 5670 already sits at 61w and nothing ups the power draw and cranks out the heat like am itsy bitsy bit of power not to mention that you decrease your maximum OverClock more than likely as I'd wager that OverClocked to the max on stock voltage a 5670 prob pushes that 75w envelope as-is.

It's like the 9800GT EE, using the 65nm A1 GPU's they become EE cards by droping a mere .5v on the GPU dropping thier board power down to 66w from 110w. Given that thats on a 65nm GPU and the increases shouldn't be that drastic on a 40nm GPU but still, volt modding a board with no Pci-E 6-pin is kind of an act in retardation.
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the 9800gt has been 55nm for quite a while and theres no way the power consumption could have been low enough at 65nm.
 
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