[Testing] Sapphire X2900XT

[Losphoron]

use the official 8.37 driver from AMD/ATi site , 8.38 Final is release next week (31 may)


control fan speed its not possible while a new version of Atitool or Atitraytools dont come out.

i Bought a waterblock swiftech MC60 + 12 Swiftech BGA ramsinks ,like Nicepun and Albert .


regards

Thank you for response.That water block is pretty expensive than an air cooling.I want to pay about 20-25euros max for cooling and another thing is that waterblock is posible to not fit to next gen cards and you lose 60$..
So you say that 8.37.4.3 is good for games.I have that fog in Hl2.Is any workaround on this until a next driver is released?

[DilTech]

Thank you for response.That water block is pretty expensive than an air cooling.I want to pay about 20-25euros max for cooling and another thing is that waterblock is posible to not fit to next gen cards and you lose 60$..
So you say that 8.37.4.3 is good for games.I have that fog in Hl2.Is any workaround on this until a next driver is released?

Thus far no ATi driver fixes the fog.

The problem is, it's not truly a driver issue, it's an application one. The same occurred with initial drivers for the 8800GTX/GTS. It's fixed now on NVidia cards thanks to a work-around in the driver, but the actual fault of the fog is the application itself. I'm sure ATi/AMD will likely fix it in a future driver itself, as valve has had since november and still never patched the source engine to fix the issue.

It's believed by most that the cause of it is the way the source engine interacts with unified shaders.

[Winterwind]

Had little fun with QX6700ES and HD2900XT and aircooling.
Here's best that i could do:

3D Mark 2003

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo QX6700ES @ 3428MHz / AC Freezer 7Pro
MOBO: Abit FP-IN9 SLI FATAL1TY
RAM: 2 x 512MB G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400HZ @ Def
GFX: Club3D Radeon HD2900XT 750/1650 @ 850/2060 / Stock cooling

3DMark Score 41644
link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=5377472

Max Qual


3D Mark 2005

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo QX6700ES @ 3428MHz / AC Freezer 7Pro
MOBO: Abit FP-IN9 SLI FATAL1TY
RAM: 2 x 512MB G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400HZ @ Def
GFX: Club3D Radeon HD2900XT 750/1650 @ 850/2060 / Stock cooling

3DMark Score 20992
orb: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=3078595



3D Mark 2006

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo QX6700ES @ 3428MHz / AC Freezer 7Pro
MOBO: Abit FP-IN9 SLI FATAL1TY
RAM: 2 x 512MB G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400HZ @ Def
GFX: Club3D Radeon HD2900XT 750/1650 @ 850/2060 / Stock cooling

3D Mark score 13595

Sm2 = 5261
Sm3 = 5727
Cpu = 5094


Special thanks to Voltc, Jaan and Evil
Damn how i hate that buggy Abit mobo, it just f*cks cpu oc
and gives random bluescreens