ATI Radeon HD 5850/5870 X2: Leaked Photo

Photos have recently leaked showing the ATI Radeon HD 5850 X2 and the ATI Radeon HD 5870 X2, as you would imagine these high performing graphics card are extremely large and feature two large heatsinks and fans.

It is expected that the X2 version of the card is 12.5 inches long, therefore you will have to choose your tower wisely, even 11 inch cards sometimes fail to fit into some larger towers so this will certainly be a struggle.

As the first DirectX 11 capable products I expected the cards to be quite large, however the size of the card does seem to be a bit excessive, you can see all of the information and photographs on HardwareCanucks here.

Do you think the size of graphics cards are beginning to get excessive?