5970's worth buying?
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Haha, to clarify what darkseid means is that they do not adhere to the PCI-e specification. With that wording it makes it sound like the GPUs are not compliant with the PCI DSS Tongue But actually the 5970 wasn't too terrible on power consumption, especially for a dual-GPU card. But they are difficult to cool. But what darkseid said absolutely applies to the HD 7990, you should be avoiding that card like the plague.

The big problem with the HD 5970 is that AMD no longer makes a driver for VLIW cards, so HD 5000 & HD 6000 series cards are all but worthless at this point.


Messages In This Thread
5970's worth buying? - by bhoffman20 - 05-20-2016, 08:57 PM
RE: 5970's worth buying? - by unix-ninja - 05-20-2016, 09:08 PM
RE: 5970's worth buying? - by bhoffman20 - 05-20-2016, 09:20 PM
RE: 5970's worth buying? - by darkseid4nk - 05-20-2016, 10:07 PM
RE: 5970's worth buying? - by bhoffman20 - 05-20-2016, 10:09 PM
RE: 5970's worth buying? - by darkseid4nk - 05-21-2016, 05:48 AM
RE: 5970's worth buying? - by epixoip - 05-21-2016, 06:07 AM