Diamond ATI Radeon HD5870 PCIE 1024 MB GDDR5 Video Card 5870PE51G

First, let me point out that so far the only 1 star review for this card is from someone who COULDN'T GET ONE! That says more about this card than the 5 star reviews does! I love this card. It is very quiet, not like the last card I had (a BFG Nvidia 6800GT). It is, however, huge, both in length and width. I built a new computer in my old Alienware Predator case, and I had to cut out 3 of the 6 3.5" drive bays to allow for the length of the card, and for the width of the second card I will be adding eventually (Crossfire, yeah!). I'm playing Bioshock 2 with everything set to the max, and I actually had to turn the card settings DOWN from Turbo to High Performance (the gameplay in High Performance is more fluid, no pun intended).

Get this card. Just be prepared to mod your case to make it fit.

Update: After 3 months of light use this card just died. First, my computer was just idling, and as walked by the screen went blank then displayed "no input". I turned...Read more

Excellent video card, especially if you want to run games at high resolutions and graphic settings. I used to use a GTX280 and it put out a lot of heat. This runs quite cool in comparison. They did a lot of work on throttling back the chip when it doesn't need the power and it shows.

I was running a Tri-Fire combination with a Dual GPU 4870X2 & a Single GPU 4870. This Combination gave me a 3Dmark06 score of 23416 using an Intel 3.0 Quad Core and 8 gigs of DDR3 Memory. It also gave me over 50 FPS in Crysis with all settings maxxed out. The old 4800 series is a 55nm process and sometimes runs a little hot during full load and intense graphics.

This new 5870 is the best I have seen so far. It is built on the new 40nm process and runs 20c cooler. Alone it gives me a 3DMark06 score of 22890. And is able to push Crysis at over 60 FPS with all settings maxxed out, that is impressive. I run all my games at 1920x1200 and 2XAA or 4XAA. All this with just a single GPU. Can't wait to see this in crossfire.