Quote Originally Posted by dnottis View Post
Doesn't matter anymore. As of yesterday the card will no longer boot, just up and died one morning. SDS (sudden death syndrome) hits another HD4870. These cards are garbage, first one was bad off the bat, this one died 3 weeks later.

I'm going to an Nvidia GTX 260 this time.
Just wanted to follow up for all of those that wanted to "chalk it up to your system" as killing the 2 HD 4870s that died.

I've had the PNY GTX 260 overclocked to 756/1566/1242 for the last month, not a single problem. I've had this working longer than either HD4870 lasted and best of all the same hardware. So it was never a problem with my hardware just crap GPUs. Nvidia FTW this round for reliability.