Awesome, with roughly 8 days to spare for the driver update. The cd may come with 8.36 so download 8.37 striaght from ATI website.
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Awesome, with roughly 8 days to spare for the driver update. The cd may come with 8.36 so download 8.37 striaght from ATI website.
email w0mbatQuote:
Originally Posted by rob[GL]
It's 8.37.4.2 the driver you want. There should be a 8.39 also but I am not sure if it's been released yet.
So, here is my very first benchmark with my new card... I'm *VERY* impressed... I've got MSN open, and internet browsers, and virus scan, and all kinds of other :banana::banana::banana::banana: running in the background... Definately was not expecting this with a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty driver either;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...irstrun001.jpg
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Originally Posted by rob[GL]
I'm assuming your card is in close case with no additional fans blowing on it. What are your load temps?
er 680i lt = nvidia.Quote:
Originally Posted by R3APER
At 2.4Ghz as well, nice. Ya due tell us the tempature.
I don't have a tool to monitor temps?Quote:
Originally Posted by XeRo
Someone link me!
I thought the ATi CC can do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rob[GL]
EDIT: I think people also use this to monitor temps.
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=30555
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Originally Posted by ownage
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be true
Maybe Q3Quote:
Originally Posted by R3APER
I don't have 8-pin PCI-Express, so I can't get the overdrive tab, which shows temps...Quote:
Originally Posted by XeRo
you said u would trade ur gtx for a pair of 2900xt. you cant crossfire on a nvidia chipset.Quote:
Originally Posted by R3APER
Okay, so temperatures as requested;
Idle: 60c
Load: 70c
thats not bad at all...
70 load isn't bad at all!
I'm getting more and more anxious by the minute. In fact, I'm heading out now to see if I can get one of these bad boys... then my rig will be complete!
@Rob GL,
Nice performance, but is that Half Life 2: Episode Two or 1?
the 4 screws next to the core looks about the same size as X1900 ... maybe D Tek Fuzion GPU will do the trick ...
Its the "Black Box" deal so you get....Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Lead Head
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Portal
Team Fortress 2
EDIT : I should probably mention these games aren't out yet. What you get is a voucher to download it for free on steam when it is released (right?).
.....and its supposed to retail for $40 so that is added value.
I ran some calculations at 1920x1200 from anandtech's graphs and I found that the 2900XT is on average 2 FPS faster than the GTS640 and if we were to make that into a % average that would come out to the 2900XT is on average 6% faster than the GTS640. For ~$100 more that seems a bit steep :(
GTS 640 is about low $300's now .... EVGA $329.99 after rebate ... i bought my 2nd one almost 3 months ago and cost 10 bux more ...
I think a lot of people here are in denial and I kind of understand that. Many of us just waited an waited for something that is, let's face it, a major disappointment. The hype over R600 was something downright insane. Everybody was like "R600 wil be at least 50% faster then 8800gtx and with a much better IQ on top of that".
A few of weeks ago when it became evident that HD2900xt wouldn't be the G80 killer that everyone took for granted, some argued that future drivers would solve that. More in-depth reviews like the ones at Anand and Beyond3D clearly state that R600 architecture is extremely software dependant:
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Originally Posted by Anandtech
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Originally Posted by Anandtech
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Originally Posted by Anandtech
But what people don't realize is that ATI had a billion years to develop proper drivers. It doesn't matter what ATI says. The R600 is very late to the game, unfortunately. That "magic driver" is to be taken with a HUGE grain of salt. The IQ loss is very evident.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beyond3D
Like I said in another 2900xt thread:
"the HD2900xt is such a disaster that instead of bringing Nvidia's prices down, it made'em go up. Yesterday the cheapest 8800gts 320 was $250 and now is $295 at newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...613&name=320MB
Before anyone call me a fanboy let me put this: I owned only ATI cards since R300. Not beacause I like ATI and hate Nvidia but just cuz they were better and faster. I too had hope that R600 would be a beast of a GPU but, unfortunately, it isn't. In my book it is a major flop and I truly hope that AMD/ATI get their act together and put some serious competition to both Nvidia and Intel
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/671-...d-2900-xt.html
French test better driver. on Vista.
http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0020001.gif
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/a...0521/14638.png
http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0019988.gif
http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0019995.gif
http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0019996.gif
All is not perfect but seeing this review and Digit-Life one after one day is begin to be very interesting.
@Caparroz : Using Anandetch review is good but u can use it entirely. In their image quality part they say nothing wrong. Image Quality in Hardware.fr (BeHardware) review is equal to X1900 image quality but a little inferior to 8800 image quality.
^^I was talking about the Call of Juarez test. The 2900xt fireplace pic clearly shows blurred textures. That bench used the "magic" 8.37.4.2 driver, didn't it?:confused:
yes i too hoped that R600 was gonna be fast ... so that nv will drop price and consumer is the winner, but no ... nv didnt dropQuote:
Originally Posted by Caparroz
i see a lot of peopel who hyped this card tried damage control ...
heres what most of em said :
1. HD2900XT was only meant to compete with GTS
2. image quality is better
3. immature dirver
i will say that for $399 its a helluva card , and from what i have seen its a good 3dmarkcard .... i'd say it score the same as a GTX ie 2900XT 850/2000 vs GTX @ 660/2100, but games .... GTX wins hands down
http://www.computerbase.de/news/trei...ibervergleich/Quote:
Originally Posted by xlink
There's the link :eek:
Thats some sick improvment, can anyone get that driver ?
But with the loss of quality =(