I don't know how often a video card carrying case might be used, but it strikes me as a sort of a "we're still edgy!" move. Obviously, this isn't sanctioned by AMD or Radeon, and is just XFX producing strange packaging as a method to promote their product.
Not that the 5970 is anything to sneeze at: the eyefinity feature is really, really awesome, if you have the dough sitting around to create a wall of displays.
I can't wait to see the performance of these two cards put head-to-head. Moreover, I'd like to see a game released within the next year that takes advantage of super-high-end cards like this. Currently, all we have is Crysis
, which, while no slouch, is almost three years old.In a bit of other news, if you are an amateur scientists, and have been using a PS3
as a cheap supercomputer, you'll want to stay away from the latest firmware update. It disables the "install other OS" functionality, and as most supercomputer users utilize Linux, this is a problem.
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ReplyDeleteCurrently, the fermi-based cards are pretty close to the high-end radeons (and actually do worse in certain cases), only they use way more power, so they're hotter and make a lot more noise. I don't really consider the cards viable, at least until they step down to a smaller, more efficient chip design, as well as refine the drivers.