I envy you I've been asking my girl if I can get one. She's like..."You spend enough time on that damn computer and money. You're going to have to save for it." I want one soo bad...

Judging by the KB for size comparison it looks like it's a little shorter than my GTX260(although beefier looking overall). Definately a good thing as I have a full tower and my card still sticks up under my HDs by an inch or more. Wish they'd work at least a little on reducing the size of Gfx cards. The things are getting monstrous. Looking forward to seeing the benches on it and don't forget to include the rest of your Specs.

So then does that card take two slots?  Looks like it does. 

What kind of connections does it have? 

How many monitors does it allow you to hook up?

I see no GPU in that pic...is it under that surf board i see on the desk?...

I have 2x 5850 and it has 3 video-outs and takes up two slots. The 5870 is just two 5850s on the same GPU board.

No actually the 5870 is a single GPU card.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5870_17.html#sect0

The 5970 is a dual GPU card

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5970_15.html#sect0

And I would love to have one but I think for the price I'll stick with my 2 4890s in CrossfireX.

It's called 'perspective', Mike....

I had to change my power supply and since it is so long, i had to remove the internal bottom half HD bay casing to have it fit on the Motherboard (and move the HDs in the CD bay).  But it was worth it! 

Why are people so impressed?  Video cards have been super huge for about 5 years now.

My 5750, 5770, x1900xt 512, 8800 gts 640, gtx 260 and upcoming 5970 all are super huge.

If anything, the ati 5xxx series is SMALL compared to how large the gtx 280 and 295 were!  The gtx 260 goes thru the middle fan area of my antec 900.

Spence...it seems you get alot of new tech...are you lucky enough to get cards for testing purposes or do you have to buy these out of your pocket?

I bought a 5750 ... what they don't tell you is that you need to have an active display port adapter if you plan on doing a triple screen configuration.  It's taken me a lot of frustration to find this out.  Ugh.  But still a rockin card. 

I used to run 4870's but always seemed to have little problems here and there, made the switch to EVGA GTX 295 a while back, and love it, have not had any problems whatsoever,i might be that i am jinxed with ATI, even my ATI tv tuner didnt work properly, but this 295 while a little steep in price, the performance is spectacular, especially when i am working on digital pictures and videos