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We have collected 2 reviews of the Asus EAH5870. Experts rate Asus EAH5870 9.5/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Asus EAH5870 and Asus Graphics cards.
Asus has long been producing exciting products, and even more exciting product variants. By now the HD5870 is pretty much a known quantity, leave it to Asus to come along and change that. They have fielded the Asus EAH5870 Voltage Tweak. It's an HD5870 with improved cooling and lets you adjust the voltage for better overclocking. In our experience the Voltage Tweak editions can hit as high as 1050MHz core speed while normal HD5870 might hit 925MHz if you got a good one. Let's fire this puppy up and see how it fares at stock clocks and at a comfortable overclock. After we bench it at some insane core speed we'll push it to the limits and see how fast it can go at the ragged edge of maximum OC. With an over-sized fan the EAH5870 Voltage Tweak (HD5870v2) offers great overclocking and 17% better cooling than reference HD5870's. With the Voltage Tweak option allowing for substantially better overclocking we may need that 17% better cooling because we are going to make this card scream. We were running late due to a technical glitch with the test rig so lets go right to the Overclocking.
Immediately upon its introduction, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 took the title for the fastest, single-GPU on the market. There was simply no other single-GPU that could touch it, not only in terms of performance, but in regard to features as well. And at the time, virtually all of AMD's strategic board partners were at the ready with products based on the Radeon HD 5870 reference design. Unfortunately, due to some yield issues at TSMC, the foundry that manufactures the actual chips at the heart of the card, supplies of Radeon HD 5870 (and Radeon HD 5850) cards quickly dried up. AMD had the fastest, most feature-rich single GPU on the market, and it was incredibly difficult to buy one for a while there. The supply issues have since cleared up, however, and Radeon HD 5870 cards are easily attainable once again. With that in mind, we're taking a look at Asus' take on AMD's flagship single-GPU, the EAH5870. Like essentially all of the other Radeon HD 5870 cards currently available, Asus' offering is based on AMD's reference design. But Asus does have a couple of tricks up its sleeve that help differentiate the EAH5870 from the also-rans. Read on and take a look for yourself...