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Review on "DH" ? Trolling on your first post ?
A reference HD 5970 has a loaded power usage of 299w...How does a card with two 6 pin PCIe (75w apiece + 75w PCI-E slot for 225w maximum draw) pull 289w ?
Here's a picture to illustrate...
See how two (2) GTX 460's only draw around 60w more than a HD 5970 ?
BTW: As far as I'm aware, Bit-tech, Techspot and Tweaktown are the only reviews up of the Palit Sonic Platinum card. I also note that the while all GTX 460 cards reviewed have considerable overclocking headroom, 850-875MHz core seems to be the usual stable range...and while a 30% overclock is pretty damn good (enough to beat up on a HD 5850 at 1920 resolution), 900MHz is likely to give a GTX 470 a run for it's money and would certainly beat a HD 5870 in some nvidia favoured titles (Call of Duty, Far Cry 2 etc.)
A reference HD 5970 has a loaded power usage of 299w...How does a card with two 6 pin PCIe (75w apiece + 75w PCI-E slot for 225w maximum draw) pull 289w ?
Here's a picture to illustrate...
See how two (2) GTX 460's only draw around 60w more than a HD 5970 ?
BTW: As far as I'm aware, Bit-tech, Techspot and Tweaktown are the only reviews up of the Palit Sonic Platinum card. I also note that the while all GTX 460 cards reviewed have considerable overclocking headroom, 850-875MHz core seems to be the usual stable range...and while a 30% overclock is pretty damn good (enough to beat up on a HD 5850 at 1920 resolution), 900MHz is likely to give a GTX 470 a run for it's money and would certainly beat a HD 5870 in some nvidia favoured titles (Call of Duty, Far Cry 2 etc.)