“One of the new features of the HD5xxxx series of video cards is Eyefinity, the technique that allows you to hook up several monitors to the video card and have the OS see it as one big monitor. While regular HD5xxx cards can support up to 3 monitors the ultimate Eyefinity experience can only be had with a HD5870 Eyefinity6 Edition video card which, as its name implies, supports up to 6 monitors at the same time. AMD was kind enough to lend us 6 monitors so we could test one of these cards and in today’s review we test to see if the XFX HD5870 Eyefinity6 Edition video card together with 6 nice Dell monitors indeed does deliver the ultimate gaming experience.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- GeForce GTX 480 SLI vs. Radeon HD 5870 CrossFire: Round Two @ X-bit Labs
- GeForce GTX 470 SLI against Radeon HD 5970: Deathmatch @ X-bit Labs
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 SLI vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire @ Tech Spot
- AXLE Radeon HD 5670 1GB @ Tweaktown
- ASUS EAH5870 V2 @ OC3D
- ASUS Matrix 5870 + PowerColor 5870 PCS in CrossfireX @ LostCircuits
- How The ATI Catalyst Driver Has Matured Since The RV770 Launch @ Phoronix
- XFX HD5870 2 GB Eyefinity6 with 6 monitors – the ultimate gaming experience? @ Beyond3D
- FireStream 9370, 9350 bring Cypress computing to servers @ The Tech Report
- Evolution Phase: Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro and Scythe Setsugen @ X-bit Labs
- Sparkle GTS250 @ Bjorn3D
- ASUS GeForce GTX-465 Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews
- Gigabyte GV-N470OC-13I: GTX 470, Straight Up with a Twist @ ExtremeTech
- EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Superclocked+ Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Asus ENGT240 Geforce GT 240 1GB DDR5 Videocard Review @ Tweaknews
- Asus ENGT240 @ Bjorn3D
- MSI GeForce GTX 465 Twin Frozr II @ techPowerUp
- MSI GeForce GTX 465 Twin Frozr II @ Tweaktown
- 470GTX Video Card Water Block Mayhem @ Bjorn3D
Graphics like greased lightning; MSI’s new 5870

If you are familiar with MSI you have probably encountered their Lightning branded GeForce cards and now they have expanded their series to include an HD5870. They have kept the same design, with a custom cooling solution, solid state chokes, Hi-C capacitors and the famous Proadlizer. Unfortunately [H]ard|OCP could not find a reason to justify the $90 premium over a stock HD5870. The technology that went into the card is solid, but the factory overclock was small and they couldn’t get much more out of the GPU when they tried manually overclocking the card.