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Actually. The whole dual-slot thing came about when the Geforce FX 5900 first came out and people would call it the "leaf blower".

You dont need dual-slot cards if you're going to do crossfire. Just stick two 4850s with reference coolers in there and you're good to go. Just for your info, 4850s outnumber all the gtx2xx cards and 4870/4870x2 cards. Most of those are also on the reference cooler too. So there goes the 90% of enthusiast systems also.

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

Guys, cool it NOW or available slots are going to be the last thing you are going to be worrying about.

This is a LAST AND ONLY warning for everyone.

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

4850/4870
3850/3870
All X2s
Are all Dual slots unless they are some super duper cheap company who don't give a crap about the cooling of it.
The supplier I would buy from if I was going to, all the brands they had, were ALL dual slot cards.

:O really? I thought it was a requirement.
But no, I know I don't, its more just no choice, its either Dual slot or nothing.

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

The reference coolers for the 4850 and 3850 are single slot designs, and there's nothing wrong with them as far as I'm aware.

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

There are even aftermarket single slot coolers that come on some cards which perform better than the dual-slot versions (ie:Saphire Radeon 3870 "Toxic edition")

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

Let me clarify.
My country = Australia
Your Countries = America/Texis

You have a shit load more variety on what you buy.
Down in Aus unless we buy online, we don't get the fancy versions of cards, atleast not in adelaide.
No XFX, BFG, EVGA so on and so forth.
We have cheaper versions, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, XpertVision etc.
I've never seen a newer card (I mean this year/last year) that was a single slot, not in our stores atleast, Which makes it near impossible to get a single slot card.

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

HIS ATI HD4850 512MB Video Card (3DMark06 +13,000)
Asus ATI HD4850 Video card

So, you get no nvidia makers? because Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, and gainward are NOT cheaper cards. In fact I would rather have one of those brands than an EVGA or BFG. (Excluded XFX since they sell ATI cards now)

Also, I buy all my items online too so dont complain. I live 200 miles from the closest PC store and most of the items are very overpriced compared to their online counterparts.

End of story.

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

Still shitloads more expensive, and crap anyways.
No HDMI output, wtf is that.
Also, it helps if those type of websites are known about
Also, Asus, MSI and Gigabyte sell hell cheap cards, i could have gotten a Gigabyte or XpertVision 8800GT when I got mine, for 333, Asus was 340, the other brands were all like 400+
I would rather an EVGA or BFG, more fancy frills then the other brands, and fancy frills are good, it saves me from buying them down the track, like adapters for s-video to AVA

Re: X58 motherboard question
 

Many graphics cards support HDMI, but use an adaptor.

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Adaptor's don't adapt the signal, they adapt the port, Its what im currently running, DIV - HDMI and then HDMI - DVI (for the lcd)
I have noticed increased quality, but the same color banding exists aswell as many of the other DVI floors.

I don't see many new single slot cards, let alone single slot cards with HDMI output port. I mainly see the nVidia dual slots (200 series mostly) with HDMI output, Another reason I rather nVidia, not just for price and performance and quality.