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Radeon 5830 Released (Paper launch)

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Some reviews:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3750

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5830,2564.html

A quick summary for those of you too lazy to read everything:
- It is identical to the 5870 in physical design, meaning at 11 inches, you won’t be able to fit it into any Micro ATX and some Mid-size cases.
- Has half the ROPs and less shaders than a 5850, but is clocked higher at 800mhz.
- It performance just under the 4890.
- MSRP is $239.
- Temperature is cooler than the 5850 because the 5870 design heatsink/fan is superior.
- Power draw is higher due to higher clock speeds.
- Reviews suggest the card is a decent card but performs like a 5790 or 5810 rather than a 5830, and is priced too high for its marginal increase in performance over the 5770.

My Thoughts:
- I’m so glad I got a 5850 earlier this month, I was originally waiting for this card because I was afraid my 485W PSU wouldn’t be able to drive the 5850, and it turns out the 5830 is MORE power hungry than a 5850.
- Same can be said for the fact that the 5850 just barely fits in my case.
- Considering how cool the 5830 runs, potentially could it can be an amazing overclocker? No reviews tested overclocking, so we’ll have to wait and see.

Your thoughts?
 
Just one thing: this is not a "paper launch"

You can buy cards on Newegg as-of this morning. And yes, they are in-stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102878&cm_re=hd_5830-_-14-102-878-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131344&cm_re=hd_5830-_-14-131-344-_-Product

But I'll agree with everything else - price is too high for something with performance this low. The [H] review does not reflect this because they were too lazy to test more than three games, and they were very forgiving of the card in DIRT2 (seriously, they STRETCHED to enable 2xAA, and allowed the 5830 to get-by with only 36fps).
 
Disappointment, as I said on the other thread. If it overclocks well, I'll have a different opinion. For now, it's not worth saving 60$ to get it instead of a 5850.
 
Agreed. It's not much more powerful at all then a stock clocked GTX260. Luckily mine came overclocked from the factory. :)
 
OFaceSIG said:
Agreed. It's not much more powerful at all then a stock clocked GTX260. Luckily mine came overclocked from the factory. :)
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What to? Never really read anything about 260 or 275 overclocking, and my friend wants to start on his.
 
Alanstein said:
What to? Never really read anything about 260 or 275 overclocking, and my friend wants to start on his.
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These cards are great overclockers by all accounts and my own experience mirrors that. I have my GTX260 watercooled at 810/1620/1296 (although I just now ordered a 5850 to replace it), and the one I got to replace my friends 9800GX2 managed 756/1512/1260 with the stock cooler @ 100% fan (exactly what mine did, though I backed his down to 729/1458/1260 to be safe, 70% fan which is quite tolerable). Both are vanilla EVGA boards (65nm, 192sp). AFAIK the 275 does well too, although it's increased stock clocks mean percentage-wise the gains are likely to be a bit smaller. The 55nm 260's run hotter because they have an inferior heatsink, but seem to overclock equally well.
 
Alanstein said:
That's ridiculous. Looks like I'm going to be tweaking a 275 later today.
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Have fun! They are mostly heat sensitive so just keep temps down - I actually run my OC with lower volts than stock. As clocks go up the temp threshold goes down - at 756 core, as soon as core temp reached 65c I got artifacts/crashes, but this only happened during Furmark (with the stock cooler set to 100%). To hit 837/1674 my card requires a slight vcore bump and one of the VRMs breaks 120c after 10 minutes of Furmark (I think it has bad contact with the Swiftech heatsink, it doesn't sit perfectly flush), plus those clocks are not quite stable in a lot of games regardless of good temps. 3DMark Vantage can loop no problem though, posting up scores about 40% higher than stock. You can get a lot of free performance - in Crysis, which I completed with air-cooled clocks, it was a case of running 4xAA and still getting similar, if not slightly better, framerates than no AA at stock.
 
Thug Esquire said:
Until an XFX design shows up on Newegg, I'll let "paper launch" stand.
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Paper launch means you cannot buy it the day of release. You can buy them on NewEgg right now. Just because XFX doesn't have theirs out, doesn't mean its a paper launch.

Change thread title please.
 
Ryan45 said:
Paper launch means you cannot buy it the day of release. You can buy them on NewEgg right now. Just because XFX doesn't have theirs out, doesn't mean its a paper launch.

Change thread title please.
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Up until a couple hours ago it was assumed to be a paper launch. Reviews were posted early this morning prior to availability.

Shortest paper launch I've ever seen!
 
You can go buy one right now, not a paper launch. March 26 will be a paper launch from nvidia.
 
guess all the pro nvdia fans posted "Paper lauch" a little to quickly, lol at Anandtech deleting the text from their slightly green tinged review, sigh
 
Errrr there are uATX cases that can take the 5970 ;)

ATX cases that cant fit a 5870 would be fail.

XFX have an egg style one.
 
This sucks, I thought the 5830 would be faster than the 275 GTX and 4890 and has higher specs than the 4890 but most reviews show it still performs slower. WTF? Not impressed at all, though the cards with those coolers from ATI's partners look nice but its not worth it.
 
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