Your beast is tiny, sorry to say.  That picture only has it go past the ram sockets...  Stupidly large gtx 260 goes another 2-3 inches...  Beast more in performance (And the 5xxx series rocks) then size.

Btw, you should try some eyefinity.  My 5770 plays Fallout 3/left 4 dead 2/tf2/bioshock 2 on highest settings (except no aa) at 3600x1600 on a pentium d 805, I'm betting that 5870 could run crysis at amazing resolution.

ID...google the Res Evil 5 Benchmark 'demo'...and run that.  It'll give a 'real' Gaming performance benchmark...

[Mine gets ave 106fps at 1680x1050 32bit DX10]

106 fps... your eyes can't see any difference much past 50 can they?

Oh no....

Your eyes can see into the hundreds of fps.  Action wise you can see into 100 fps.  Very fast action (IE, fast cars) it's easy to see up to 100-200 fps. When you take into account flashing lights that flash many times per second, your eyes can see 500 fps or more.

Please, PLEASE don't turn this into another of the internet's billion "how many FPS can your eyes discern" topic.... So many disagreements, SO much misinformation...

On topic:

That's a sweet card, my GTX285 still does me proud, but I'm interested in what the next gen can grind out for sure. 

I looked it up, and the answer is no. 

Correct, however it's 'just' discernible with a 50 hertz television to detect the flicker....where 100hz is 'clean'....though more often than not 60 hz is enough.

Games are not televisions, they are generating images in 'real time' so IF/WHEN there is a particular graphics-intensive render/scene the framerate will lag...and if there is insufficient 'headroom' you will definitely see it as stagger if/when you slow to 25fps or there-abouts.

If you can AVERAGE around 100fps in gameplay there is a very good chance you will not at some stage or other be waiting for the screen to draw while your enemy caps yo ass ....or you understeer into the armco ...

You can't do anything with the HDMI port if you are using the DVI ports.

For three monitor mode you would need to use a Display Port monitor as one of the monitors.  I have a HP LP2475w for this purpose.  Ideally all three monitors would have the same native resolution too so you could use them in eyefinity mode.

Oh god, it is another "how many fps can you see" thread...

As for you, ok, so YOU can only see lets say 50 fps.

Me, I can tell the difference between 50 and 80-100 fps, not in the middle of my sight but at the edges where the discrepancy between the changing position of an object becomes visible. In films you have mostly fluid motions (mostly because many people agree 48 fps would be better, let alon 96) because you have the effect of ghost images called motion blur. so movement seems fluid even though it is jumpy. In computer games, you lack the ability to do some serious motion blur, hence many gamers consider the minimum speed at which to play FPS 60 fps. the minimum!

I can't probably tell any difference if the speed is greater 80-100 fps, but that will change when you use a much bigger screen with a much higher resolution (think 4x4 meters and 8192 horizontal pixels)

Why do you think IMAX HD and 3D use 48 fps even though they have motion blur as they are film?

Here are some concepts, phrases, and fragments that anyone wanting to speak authoritatively about perception thresholds of the Mk II Human Eyeball really should know about:

* analog

* digital

* individual threshold of perception

* illusion of motion

* Application/game frames per second

* Monitor vertical refresh rate

* CRT monitors

* progressive and interlaced scanlines

* For the US audience (and perhaps a handful of other countries) 120hz AC, 60hz flourescent lighting, 60hz default Windows v-rate for CRTs, and sympathetic waves.

On topic: I bought a 5770 a few weeks ago. I like it.  This really says quite a bit more than otherwise indicated - as it's my first ATI card in bleems - never wanting to use them after a poor time with an under-performing 9250 (or something like that) and giant fat overweight driver configuration utility named Catalyst.  But nVidia can't really compete on features or specs at a given price point right now for new card purchases.

LOL. My Nvidia GT 275 is about 10-12 inches long. I had to move a hard drive to get that mofo in.

Ewww, stock cooling. I hope it's better than the last dozen or so generations... I prefer things that doesn't soulnd like a smaller jet.

This only applies if your monitor updates at more than 60Hz though, which is unlikely with a LCD or LED monitor. As far as I know even 100Hz+ TVs will still update a computer signal at 60Hz. This means that if you can tell the difference between 60 and 100FPS, it's definetely not because you see "more" frames in the game.

187.6 @ 1600x900