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Chimaera
12/05/09

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Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a Radeon 5970 under the other.
The bartender says, "I guess you won't be needing a drink."
Naked lady says...
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FooSchnickens - BPH Free
12/05/09

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Those ain't got shit on the Bitchin' Fast 3D2000
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FooSchnickens - BPH Free
12/05/09

Ok the image ate itself somehow.
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Michai
12/05/09

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I can remember when Voodoo1 was hot shit. Nothing like Age of Empires and Quake 2 at 50MHZ.
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
12/05/09

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It's a 2 GPU card... it's going to be big.
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Noobs-R-Us
12/05/09

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Actually, all of you have it all wrong.

The correct quote is, "How I'm I ever going to fit something that big into my small box?" Followed by "I've never had so much fun with 13.3 inches in my life!"
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
12/05/09

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I remember when sound cards where this big... had this Sound Blaster AWE32 which even had memory slots... for MIDI soundbanks if I'm not mistaken.
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maven2k
12/05/09

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Yeah, remember when they had slots that the back end slid into on the motherboard?
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UnderLoK
12/05/09

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Next thing you know they are going to be releasing the new EISA-X slot to handle these new 2ft long cards... I thought my 280 was bad, sheesh.
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egoods
12/05/09

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13.3" is really big, but I've seen some raid cards that are bigger. The Lian Li case I'm using now has a special bracket to help hold the end of really long cards in so they don't flop around.
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tokugawa
12/05/09

@egoods: I've had an ISA sound card that was bigger. Soundblaster AWE32 with 8 MB RAM expansion...
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JAZ3B
12/05/09

@egoods: well you don't want anything that big flopping around now do you? ;D
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egoods
12/06/09

@JAZ3B: Nope, would hate to have the friction chafe the metal. That's why it has to be secured.
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Gossy... Fortune and Glory
12/05/09

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Looking at the red circles (which I presume are vents) and ignoring the sizes, I'd say the card on the far right was the cheapest and the one second from left is the most expensive. I get fascinated by the way different items in the same product range have different designs that reflect their superiority in the range.

disclaimer: I know nothing about graphics cards but I am interested in design choices.
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Dizznizzle
12/05/09

@Gossy... Fortune and Glory: i don't know if i would consider that a design choice as much as a byproduct of literal space requirements - ie. more stuff requires a bigger envelope.

It is interesting that despite the current paradigm where costs increase to make things smaller - that products in a concurrent line also get more expensive as they get bigger.

I'm currently using an nVidia 3700m and despite my needs, I've yet to push it to its limits. I'm finding limits get imposed by software still running as 32-bit that hit a RAM ceiling, or heavy processing loads that choke even an intel quad-core.

I would think that for the discerning user, real-time GI render cards and supplemental computing cards such as Tesla would have far greater impact than putting the biggest possible single graphics card in one's rig.
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yuriythebest3
12/05/09

@Gossy... Fortune and Glory: I also want the second one from the left
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egoods
12/05/09

@Gossy... Fortune and Glory: Those are fans, really really loud fans. I know when we crank up the 5870s in my roommates gaming rig it sounds like the machine just got cleared for takeoff.
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Evangelion
11/18/09

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I came.
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robinandtami
11/18/09

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Forget gaming... can it bitstream 7.1 lossless audio?
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the facetious feline
11/18/09

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$600 isn't that bad. I was expected to see a price tag over $1k for sure. I'll wait to pick it up next year for $58.
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CmooreInOR
11/18/09

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awesome!!! I was able to get a 5850 and can't be happier. ATI has really kicked it up a notch with this round of cards. I was always an Nvidia guy until now... Well done ATI.
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jessedybka
11/18/09

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Is it wrong that my first thought was that $600 is pretty cheap for the highest-end graphics card? I still remember shelling out about $350 for a used Radeon 9700 Pro, and it was upper-mid-level at the time.
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TheGift73
11/18/09

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Hope this doesn't sound stupid, I can see 2 DVI ports, but why doesn't it have HDMI ports?
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dagamer34
11/18/09

@TheGift73: It has a mini-DisplayPort in the middle that probably carries audio. My guess is that they couldn't put outputs on the top row for cooling reasons.
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satoru
11/18/09

@TheGift73: You can just get a DVI-HDMI connector for a few bucks if you really need to connect via HDMI. There probably isn't a huge need in this category for HDMI since this card is overkill for a HTPC setup, and most people are playing on monitors, rather than hooking it to a tv (in which case you're probably have a PS3/Xbox360 anyways you'd be playing off of)
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