Benching My HD4870

[Kensek]

System - Asus Rampage with a Q6700 and PC8500 Micron Ballistic Tracers. Powered by a Corsair 750TX PSU. Air Cooled by a Zalman CNPS9700NT.

3DMark06 Benches:

1) 325x10 750/900 - 15,861
2) 400x9 750/900 - 16,605
3) 400x9 790/1000 - 17,149
4) 400x9 790/1050 - 17,207
5) 422x9 790/1050 - 17,619 link to score http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7256920

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2107/325x10stockvp1.png

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5908/400x9stockuv9.png

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8563/400x97901000am2.png

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/6506/400x97901050hf6.png

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CrossFire to Come Tomorrow.

AL (The Fonz)

[zerazax]

Damn, 17k single card is impressiv. Nice scores

[keiths]

You wouldn't happen to be able to bench something with GPU@625 and memory stock would you? Trying to do 4850 vs 4870 comparisons here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=192690 With games and settings the reviews are using to be able to compare.

[adpr_02]

Damn, wish those were Vista benches...

[Kasparz]

Damn, 17k single card is impressiv. Nice scores
This is pretty much CPU limited scores. With Yorkfield at 4GHz score would be 18.5-19k.

[m0da]

how about updating to cat 8.7? I hear good things:)

[tylerw13]

how about updating to cat 8.7? I hear good things:)

is there a place for 8.7?? im running x64 vista is there a place to download

[Kensek]

I cannot find a link that works to it.

If you know of one please provide.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Contact a reviewer, it's a closed beta given out to review the new cards not ment to go public. Meaning, I can't find one either other then removed links.

[purecain]

i got over 21000 with crossfire(stock) and q6600@3.6 that was before they became expensive ornaments....

[Kensek]

Well I tried Cross Fire today. When I tried booting up the XP screen just froze. I thought maybe my Corsair 750TX wasn't able to handle the electrical demands of these cards when ran in CF mode. So I took one card out and the system would not show any display or post. Only the VGA fan spins.
Then I tried the other HD4870 and the same thing happens.

I then tried all of my old VGAs and everything runs fine.

Therefore, i tried each HD4870 in my other systems and only the fan spins and no display output happens.

I don't know what happened, but it's RMA time. At least I got to play with 1 card for 2 hours.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Well I tried Cross Fire today. When I tried booting up the XP screen just froze. I thought maybe my Corsair 750TX wasn't able to handle the electrical demands of these cards when ran in CF mode. So I took one card out and the system would not show any display or post. Only the VGA fan spins.
Then I tried the other HD4870 and the same thing happens.

I then tried all of my old VGAs and everything runs fine.

Therefore, i tried each HD4870 in my other systems and only the fan spins and no display output happens.

I don't know what happened, but it's RMA time. At least I got to play with 1 card for 2 hours.


Their dying everywhere :confused:

[Kensek]

Can you provide me links of other HD4870s failing?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Can you provide me links of other HD4870s failing?

Should have done so in the first post sorry.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=192759&highlight=4870+rma

[Kensek]

Thanx for the link.

If there is No fix by Monday morning, back they go.

[AriciU]

Well I tried Cross Fire today. When I tried booting up the XP screen just froze. I thought maybe my Corsair 750TX wasn't able to handle the electrical demands of these cards when ran in CF mode. So I took one card out and the system would not show any display or post. Only the VGA fan spins.
Then I tried the other HD4870 and the same thing happens.

I then tried all of my old VGAs and everything runs fine.

Therefore, i tried each HD4870 in my other systems and only the fan spins and no display output happens.

I don't know what happened, but it's RMA time. At least I got to play with 1 card for 2 hours.

Did you overclock thru bios update or something? Or did they just die without you doing :banana::banana::banana::banana: to them?

[Kensek]

No I only OCd through CCC to 790/1050.

And never OC'd the second card.

both cards died when I tried CF the first time.

[AriciU]

That's really nasty then. Let's see who else gets "lucky" :(

[XCheater]

this card sure is blazingly fast
I wonder if 4850 CF would be a great competitor to this card
since 4850 itself gets 14000 in 3dmark2006 when 4870 gets 16000 when the Q6600 is in 3.6GHz
I really sad since my 4850 only can perform upto 11000ish when my Q6600 is in 2.4ghz because of my bad mobo
I wonder how 4870 in default Q6600 clocks, would you add some more test for this?

[Truckchase!]

how about updating to cat 8.7? I hear good things:)

If anyone has found this driverset please PM me; I intend on starting benchmarking on a 4850 today with emphasis on potential memory bandwidth bottlenecks. I would like to use this driverset if possible, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Big.Wayne]

both cards died when I tried CF the first time.Hi Kensek, talk about being gunned down in your prime,

I was enjoying your results then it all went wrong . . .bummer!

I'm just wondering, how were the temps of these cards? did you have a peek in CCC at any stage to see if the cards were melting?

Overclocking would surely add extra heat as would stacking the cards in Crossfire. Apart from that I can't really see any reason you got two dead cards unless they were both from a dodgy batch.

Good luck getting it sorted, RMA to the rescue! :)

[Kensek]

Was really looking forward to Benching in CF Mode.

Had fun back in December with the HD3870s and all went smooth then. Therefore, I expected a problem free session with the HD4870s.

WRONG!!!!!

Also my OLD BFG 8800GTS G92 scores 17,0xx in 3DMark06 in my Rampage.

This HD4870, when it worked for 2 hours could only do 17,6xx.


Here is screen shot with 8800GTS in Rampage.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9413/17010dm7.png

[nukec]

Their dying everywhere :confused:

90C on idle is not normal.. :welcome:

[Marvin_The_Martian]

90C on idle is not normal.. :welcome:


Welcome to you to I Nukec :welcome:

Yeah that's high but speculation at this time is either Quimonda ram or cf-x. Allot of cards deid while in cfx I gatherd from the posts and others point to the only diffrence between 4870 and 4850 being the gddr5 on the 4870.

I just hope they will resolve this soon, I'd like Ati to make a good impression again with a new product but if this is going to take some while to rectify Ati will loose even more consumer trust and I would hate to see that happen.

[WiCKeD]

What brand were they?

[Kensek]

Mine were Sapphire.

[shakey]

I have a question, were the fans stock or were they aftermarket?

[m0da]

8.7, vista only:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=193471

[bobseptic]

hello , after reading loads of reviews on here i decided to get 2*4870's. ive been lurking for months.

i must say im well pleased with these cards in crossfire. i previously had 8800gts 512 : http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/6982/3dmarkquadpw5.jpg

4870 crossfire vantage and 3dmark06 results:
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/7220/watervantage4870by22ndhad1.jpg

keep up the good work.

os: vista 64 sp1