You're having your period. Period. Thats why you hate anything which reminds you of blood or bleeding, which is why you bought Nvidia.

I have to say. Horrible cards.

Surely you mean 480? For one 5870>470. Then 470 is nowhere near price of 5970.

Yeah, the 5970 is twice the price of a GTX 470.

for what reason? so far im quite impressed with my GTX470SC. I have yet to see a heating issue. My GPU running Crysis maxed sits at about 80c. Its called actually having good cooling in your case. Reviewers have to use some pretty badly cooled cases inorder for them to even see those load temps. Fan noise? I've tested it at 95% fan speed. Its not that load at all. My 9600GT was loader at 95%. Cost, yes it was a bit pricy. At least I know I have EVGA's customer support which is one of the best in the industry. Performance, they are the fastest single GPU cards on the market, and since I use folding@home, their performance is amazing there as well.

@flow - I've been burned way to many times by ATI's piss poor support and quality. AMD might have saved them but, idc, ive had more than a dozen GPUs burn out in under 3 months. I never had an issue with Nvidia cards. I will buy AMD processors, hence this PC running an 7750be, but still will never touch AMD/ATI GPUs.

I personally don't like ATI/AMD mainly to the the severe immaturity of their drivers. I like to go back and play old games that I have purchased on PC. After many driver updates for ATI, I have lost the ability to play said old games. To play them, I then have to go back and find old ATI drivers just to play an old game, then update to a new driver to play new games and obtain max performance.
I have never once had a similar issue on a Nvidia card. I have tried going with ATI twice, but the driver immaturity is just too egregious for me to go back any time soon.
If they can affirm that this will never happen again with a full purchase price replacement warranty to assure it does not happen, I might give them another try.

this is kinda off topic but i saw you guys talking about blackouts before.... my screen flickers when i startup usually at the login screen or right when i get into windows. i think it started happening after i got windows 7. just wondering its not really a big deal since im building a new rig in like 2 months.

i can get a 470 for around 450 bucks and i can get a hd5970 for roughly 615 bucks, yes they arent the same price but when you look at the performance gap the hd 5970 is clearly the one to buy for the 150-200 bucks more.

oh and some of you are saying the 5870 is faster than the 470 thats not true at all the 470 is the fastest single gpu card on the market but just marginally, barely unnoticeable.

2 sli 470's is probably the fastest thing you can get for just under $1000 bucks , but nobody needs that amount of power plus its the hottest running card as well , gonna need to have a very cool box to run them.

but if you want to spend over $1000 you can get crossfire hd5970's basically nothing can touch that, not even 2 480's or whatever nvidia decides to come out with in the next year or 2.

if you need one card buy a 5970 2gb.

To be honest, multidisplays this gen are pointless. Even the top GPU's can't get close to 60FPS with a 3 monitor display set up, let alone 6 or 12, or 3D vision. It's a nice idea that's a generation too early.

It'll be interesting to see how cooling is after a month or more of heavy use. Simpyl put ATI have won this generation, mainly due to the fact they have their own production plant and have no issue dishing out 40nm products and are even moving onto 28nm products for ARM.

The Fermi chip was never designed to be a good graphics card and clearly it naturally isn't. The clock speeds are downright bizarre, hot temps and rediculous power consumption. Plus with less than 10k chips out, it seems the card is having low yields, which has really battered Nvidias stock.

A chip that was focused on HPC was never going to wow the graphics world, and this card certainly hasn't. ATI's single chip cards may be a little bit weaker in some games, but they are cheaper, cooler and less power hungry. Plus there is no way in hell there is going to be a double chip GF100 card anytime soon considering the power the GTX480 needs, and the cooling with it being the first ever GPU to have heat pipes on the stock model.