4870 Overclocking Thread

[dejanh]

My first HD4870 was an HIS. It would crash before 1 min in Furmark. After 2 weeks it died. I believe it was a sign of a bad card.

Are you running renamed FurMark in 8.8 (e.g., renamed.exe) because it has been nerfed in the driver to not push the cards as much...

Otherwise, the OC looks awesome

[dnottis]

Looks like card #2 died today. When they fail, they just won't post. Playing COD4 last night for awhile, temps were about 38 core, 52 vrm. Shutdown. Today it wouldn't start. Swapped GPUs, posted fine.

Second GPU dead in 2 months. I'm done with ATI. Moving to Nvidia at this point. The first one died at stock speeds. The amount of spontaneous death with these cards is frightening, in fact is SDS - Spontaneous Death Syndrome.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Looks like card #2 died today. When they fail, they just won't post. Playing COD4 last night for awhile, temps were about 38 core, 52 vrm. Shutdown. Today it wouldn't start. Swapped GPUs, posted fine.

Second GPU dead in 2 months. I'm done with ATI. Moving to Nvidia at this point. The first one died at stock speeds. The amount of spontaneous death with these cards is frightening, in fact is SDS - Spontaneous Death Syndrome.

bad bios flash? you arent being very clear on the cause of the dead card, cards don't just "die" like that, its got to be something else causing it. PSU, Mobo?

[dnottis]

bad bios flash? you arent being very clear on the cause of the dead card, cards don't just "die" like that, its got to be something else causing it. PSU, Mobo?

Just died. Was fine last night. Shutdown the PC. Today no boot. Swapped out cards, card is dead. Same thing happened with my first card. Google about dead HD4870s, they love to give up the ghost randomly. They do die just like that, I've seen it twice now.

I'm done with ATI for now, 2 is enough.

[Kondik]

Just died. Was fine last night. Shutdown the PC. Today no boot. Swapped out cards, card is dead. Same thing happened with my first card. Google about dead HD4870s, they love to give up the ghost randomly. They do die just like that, I've seen it twice now.

I'm done with ATI for now, 2 is enough.

As stargate125645 would state , it's all nVidia's fault. I bought two sapphire Rads month ago with my new rig so I installed anew and man I had 12 or 13 days of red driver hell and 2 Format's of Vista x64 , never had those problems but that Crossfire hated me so much. And at the last day one of the R4870 died [ Accelero S1 rev 2 + VRM"s cooled extremly well ] , that was the last thing , limit reached, packed them returned took my mony bought GTX280 , no problems since them, maybe I was borned without the ATI.dll that the Silicium god gave us ...

[Blkout]

Looks like card #2 died today. When they fail, they just won't post. Playing COD4 last night for awhile, temps were about 38 core, 52 vrm. Shutdown. Today it wouldn't start. Swapped GPUs, posted fine.

Second GPU dead in 2 months. I'm done with ATI. Moving to Nvidia at this point. The first one died at stock speeds. The amount of spontaneous death with these cards is frightening, in fact is SDS - Spontaneous Death Syndrome.

For what it's worth, you did modify your card. Most other people running the stock cooler haven't had this issue. I don't think it's really fair to point the finger at ATI when you clearly voided your warranty and modifed your card.

[dnottis]

For what it's worth, you did modify your card. Most other people running the stock cooler haven't had this issue. I don't think it's really fair to point the finger at ATI when you clearly voided your warranty and modifed your card.

Ya, but the first one died and it was stock. Regardless 2 dead HD4870s added the pile that others have had die doesn't look too good if you ask me.

[dejanh]

Ya, but the first one died and it was stock. Regardless 2 dead HD4870s added the pile that others have had die doesn't look too good if you ask me.

Ya, I had a reference Diamond HD 4870 die on me as well couple of days ago (5 maybe?). Bought it from NCIX, came home, installed it, installed the drivers, rebooted, loaded up 3DMark06 ran a couple of tests, rebooted to go to Ubuntu to install the drivers and I was greeted with a black screen at POST...card trying to spin up the fan over and over and over, diagnostic LEDs blinking, no video out. Took it back to NCIX 2 hours later, they put it in their system to test it right away...no video...full refund.

I understand that there is a lot of these cards that are being sold, a lot of people that do not have complaints, but I have just been having s*** luck with them...

[0ut0fstep]

Ive now modded 4 of the visiontek cards 2 for myself and 2 for a buddy. using mcw60 block and just cutting the stock cooler down to cool the VRM's. none of these cards have crashed while running furmark ive reached the 120c mark after 130seconds of stability testing on furmark. but the cards are all still solid. im thinking its a manufacturing flaw on someone's part and its not ati's imo because at stock setting with stock cooler the VRM's run plenty within spec using a computer as it should be. Diamond HIS powercolor etc.. if these cards are failing visiontek is doing something they aren't. and yes I have renamed furmark so i get double the frames and stress it as much as possible.

[dnottis]

Ive now modded 4 of the visiontek cards 2 for myself and 2 for a buddy. using mcw60 block and just cutting the stock cooler down to cool the VRM's. none of these cards have crashed while running furmark ive reached the 120c mark after 130seconds of stability testing on furmark. but the cards are all still solid. im thinking its a manufacturing flaw on someone's part and its not ati's imo because at stock setting with stock cooler the VRM's run plenty within spec using a computer as it should be. Diamond HIS powercolor etc.. if these cards are failing visiontek is doing something they aren't. and yes I have renamed furmark so i get double the frames and stress it as much as possible.

Mine have never died while pushing them. They die when trying to come on. Strange. It was fine all day yesterday was playing some COD4, RS vegas 2. Shut her down. Today the card was dead, no more posty, ever. Just like that. My other one did the same thing, just up and randomly died. You better knock on wood so you dont have them all die on you tomorrow

Picked up the GTX 260 from the FS forums here today.

[dejanh]

Ive now modded 4 of the visiontek cards 2 for myself and 2 for a buddy. using mcw60 block and just cutting the stock cooler down to cool the VRM's. none of these cards have crashed while running furmark ive reached the 120c mark after 130seconds of stability testing on furmark. but the cards are all still solid. im thinking its a manufacturing flaw on someone's part and its not ati's imo because at stock setting with stock cooler the VRM's run plenty within spec using a computer as it should be. Diamond HIS powercolor etc.. if these cards are failing visiontek is doing something they aren't. and yes I have renamed furmark so i get double the frames and stress it as much as possible.

From the people I have had an opportunity to talk to so far, I have heard the least complaints about Visiontek cards. Kind of funny...maybe they are more stringent in ensuring no faulty cards come out because of the lifetime warranty