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Word getting around as of late is that the HD 5830 is due to be released February 5th.  Originally the NDA date was the week of the 25th of January. What that means is that the NDA was going to come off the card between the 25th of January and the 31st. This seems to have been officially pushed back due to an issue with ASIC.

At the moment we’ve been told that a new one has been resent and the launch has been postponed to a new day. As for that new date we’re not sure yet. At the moment it seems unlikely that an exact day has been given like February 5th which is a Friday. The next day we’ll hear for the launch of the card will be a week of one, be that the 1st of February, the 8th or later.

Once we have the week of date as we draw closer to the launch date we’ll receive an exact day. This isn’t the first time ATI have done this, the same happened with the HD 5670, I received my sample the second week of January, with a launch date of the week of the 11th of January. On the 8th that date was updated to the actual release date being the 14th.

It make sense that ATI will begin to move their launch strategy to this as it takes a lot of pressure off the company. Instead of working to a day they now only have to work towards a week, it also allows the company to get a last minute driver update out in the event reviewers are seeing a major issue.

You have to think what many of the NVIDIA only partners are doing at the moment, speaking to a few as of late it seems that the highest end product being sold is the GTS 250 with most other models like the popular GTX 275, GTX 285 and dual GPU GTX 295 all becoming discontinued.

With all that free time on hand though it seems like some companies are choosing to experiment and have a bit of fun. The latest wacky incarnation of a NVIDIA graphics card seems to be coming from Galaxy and will carry with it two GTS 250 cores.

Information we know of at the moment is, two G92-426 cores will be placed on a single PCB with the help of the BR04 bridge chip. The particular 426 version of the G92 core are low power versions meaning that this card should use less power than that of two non 426 based GTS 250 cards.

2GB of memory is present thanks to 16 .8NS DRAM chips with both running on a 256-bit memory interface. This particular model will have 6-Phase power and Bussmann high-frequency inductance which will boost the frequency up to 2MHz. What that bit means exactly we’re not sure but the general word is that due to the low power nature of the GPUs and the high quality power supply components overclocking should be impressive.

As for clocks or a release date information is extremely limited at the moment, it’s possible that boredom could’ve just set in at Galaxy while waiting for Fermi and the company is just killing some time. If we get any more information though we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop.