one card is fine, but crossfire uses more bandwidth and is best on a 16x/16x
one card is fine, but crossfire uses more bandwidth and is best on a 16x/16x
Any ideas when the 1GB HD4870 is going to hit the streets?
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What is the ETA for the official driver for the 4870?
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Last edited by onethreehill; 06-30-2008 at 09:36 PM.
This is correct - the problem was that RBE and GPU-Z were only pulling 64k of the 128k bios out of the card, flashing a truncated bios back in caused the cards to not post. No one knew this because all prior ATI cards (including the 4850) have a 64k bios.
I recovered my card from a bad flash (it's rockin' by the way) and then used RBE to mod the 128k bios to include ramped fan control and flashed the newly modded bios back in - it works fine, just like you'd expect.
You can use me as the canary in the mineshaft for the next couple of weeks if you're feeling cautious.
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DDC3.2 > PA120.3 > DD4870x2fc > Fuzion v1 > PA120.2 > EK Res
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Then I'll ask you two things if you don't mind
1 - Have you tried the 160MHz clocks at idle?
2 - When UVD is active, the card uses 750MHz? If so, I'd try to lower it to 160MHz too. The 3870 uses 700MHz when UVD is in use, but it works just fine with the standard 2D clocks of 300MHz, so I lowered them via BIOS.
I'd do this myself but I don't have my card yet![]()
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I haven't messed with bios clock changes, I'm still playing with the card through CCC. I have a feeling it's going to take water to really push the core (lotsa heat) so I'm just using it normally for now.
Here are the clock state profiles (UVD is using 4/5/6 for low/med/high)
From this you can see that the card doesn't ever clock down below 500 on the core and the ram doesn't clock below 900 ever. I kinda wonder if they had issues with the ram during power state changes. I also heard rumors about one of the manufacturers having a fixed bios out that enabled better powerplay functionality, so I'll see if I can find it and try it out.
core i7 920, gigabyte EX58-UD5, 4870x2
DDC3.2 > PA120.3 > DD4870x2fc > Fuzion v1 > PA120.2 > EK Res
Looking at that pic the only thing you have to do to have proper PowerPlay is change clock 1 to 160MHz and 1.04v, and about UVD it only has on/off (using/not using), only two power states, so you can discard clock 5. Off is 2D clocks (500 in this BIOS), so I guess it will use 750MHz when decoding.
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Does voltage adjustment in RBE even work? I was under the impression it did nothing?
Check it with a DMM, but in the 4850's it works up to 1,20v
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What's the default voltage? 1.15v?
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maybe 4870s can go to 2.3 bit idk my girlfriends dad is letting me borrow his 6decimal accurate multimeter so I guess I'll test my cards voltages out in a few days![]()
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