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I only recommend this card for people that hate nvidia and without any 3d scores (like me). It's a great start and if it hits 1400/1400 it's easy to sell.
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I only recommend this card for people that hate nvidia and without any 3d scores (like me). It's a great start and if it hits 1400/1400 it's easy to sell.
You are telling me to buy a 480?
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^^ Yes!

Another big disappointment on the retail OC ed. 5870 department:

- Gigabyte choose to lock the SOC Tuner for retail version (no IC support), in other words you will get the 5870 SOC retail edition with a bundled software called SOC Tuner that will not work!!!!

No voltage tunning on the retail cards.

Only hardmods. The good news is the hardmod is easy and the Hynix memory runs 1420Mhz on air with stock volts.
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^^ Yes!

Another big disappointment on the retail OC ed. 5870 department:

- Gigabyte choose to lock the SOC Tuner for retail version (no IC support), in other words you will get the 5870 SOC retail edition with a bundled software called SOC Tuner that will not work!!!!

No voltage tunning on the retail cards.

Only hardmods. The good news is the hardmod is easy and the Hynix memory runs 1420Mhz on air with stock volts.
Wouldn't a bios flash rectify that?
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Wouldn't a bios flash rectify that?
It's still very odd why Gigabyte choose not to unlock the SOC Tuner for retail, I mean the card ships with the software but it doesn't work.

I posted on Hwbot and would like you guys to chime in that this is a deal breaker and if Gigabyte doesn't review the software these will go back to RMA as 'defective' item.

Where I came from this is false advertisement.
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