does anyone have one of these, or offer advice about buying one

[Sajuuk]

Sorry I was refering to the previous Eyefinity6 card...the specs for it were less then the 5970, it was basicly just 2 cards mashed together, and I didnt think the performance was that great, without attempting to crossfire multiple cards together.

Now im hoping this new version truely is their most powerful card to date, im avoiding going back down the 3-4 sli/crossfire phase again, I did that with 8800 ultra's and at the time, only one monitor was able to be active well running in SLI, turning off the SLI allowed for all 6 screens to be active, but the noise/heat issues were a nightmare. I'll willingly pay extra for 1 card that does it all, and hopefully this is such a beast.

We're not going to run them in crossfire. They're there for three reasons (splitting rendering of wow clients between cards for MAXIMUM performance, extra monitors (12-18 anyone!?), and lastly to accelerate multiple instances of applications that can use the card for parallel computing.) The first two are what we're really going to look at.

The regular 5970 is really two 5850 dies on one PCB, the XFX black one is (I think) two 5870s( or the equivalent) taking up two slots instead of four, for a very high premium. Get two cards for 2/3rds the price of one, with possibly easier overclocking? Yes please.

[Hivetyrant]

The regular 5970 is really two 5850 dies on one PCB, the XFX black one is (I think) two 5870s( or the equivalent) taking up two slots instead of four, for a very high premium. Get two cards for 2/3rds the price of one, with possibly easier overclocking? Yes please.

I believe it's still the two 5850's but with 4gig of memory instead of the usual 2, could be wring though.

[Sajuuk]

I believe it's still the two 5850's but with 4gig of memory instead of the usual 2, could be wring though.

As could I. I'm not entirely certain of it, actually, now that I think again, it's just two 5850s, ASUS had a republic of gamers card that was, in fact two 5870s. (ASUS ARES)

Oh, and it's dual 2gb 5850s.