i was lucky..after searching for 2 weeks I located an open box at at a fry's in San Diego ..They said the card was tested on return ..I hate buying open box items.So I really don't know why the card was returned ...OK ..the card is 10.5 inches long so it runs past the length of the mobo..so i moded my p 182 antec to fit my previous card was a evga 9800 gtx+ my power supply is an 850 watt antec so i was ok the card uses 2 8 pin molex connectors..just to be on the safe side I reformated my c drive to rid my registry of any nvidia files ..i recommend a reformat if your previous card was nvidia ..the card ran smooth as silk after reformatting ..before it would flicker playing movie files using dvx...my processer is amd 9950 4 gigs ram..so i was running cod4 modern war 2 at full res with aa at 4x ..the card would heat up from 37 c to about 60 playing games running temp at rest is 37 c..with a 20 percent increase in speed over the 9800 it is worth the upgrade...next I'll upgrade my processor to a 965 or 955 amd to get more boost one thing that sold me was direct x 11 capabilities
cons ...5870...where art thou
cons ...5870...where art thou
- GPU: ATI Radeon 5870
- Bus Type: PCI-Express X16 (PCI Express 2.0)
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
- 1 GB GDDR5 memory
- API Support: DirectX 9.0 and 10.0, 10.1, 11.0 Open GL3.1
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