Official HD 2900 Discussion Thread

[Eastcoasthandle]

I wanna see some retails OC results before i make a decision

I could be wrong but I think that most reviews tomorrow will use 8.36 nstead of 8.38 drivers. If this turns out to be true that's going to suck.

[bingo13]

I could be wrong but I think that most reviews tomorrow will use 8.36 nstead of 8.38 drivers. If this turns out to be true that's going to suck.

The majority of reviews should be using the 8.37.4 drivers, the 8.38s (early beta 2) still have a lot of issues, especially under Vista with CrossFire and OpenGL. Also, the 8.38s do not have all of the IQ settings optimized yet, so a lot of those reported increases are not exactly fair comparisons. However, the final 8.38 drivers will improve performance over the 8.37.4 drivers, AMD is expecting 5~12% improvements.

[Eastcoasthandle]

The majority of reviews should be using the 8.37.4 drivers, the 8.38s (early beta 2) still have a lot of issues, especially under Vista with CrossFire and OpenGL. Also, the 8.38s do not have all of the IQ settings optimized yet, so a lot of those reported increases are not exactly fair comparisons. However, the final 8.38 drivers will improve performance over the 8.37.4 drivers, AMD is expecting 5~12% improvements.

Looks like tweaktown used 8.36 . I am not expecting much from this review site:
-no gts
-no max fps, just min and average
-no updated drivers

I am sure that the Power Supply Unit: Seventeam 500-watt is good enough PSU.