The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[postumus]

alright where is the easiest place to have it hosted? I've never done it before/never had a reason to.

[cegras]

Meh, other than perhaps MSI the other brand warranties suck (Sapphire LOL).

I dunno. Like I've said somewhere else, failure rates for GPUs often follow bathtub curves - if it ain't broken in the beginning, as long as you don't push suicide volts through it it will stay in working shape for pretty much it's useful lifetime.

That's why I'd rather have a good card to start with, and if it fails in 30 days due to a QC error, I can express RMA with the retailer.

[jaredpace]

3dmark06 stock settings - 5870 and i7 965 both at stock

22383 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 8704
SM 3.0 Score 10655
CPU Score 6282

awesome thanks!

[Brian y.]

alright where is the easiest place to have it hosted? I've never done it before/never had a reason to.

Try here

[postumus]

ok cool i'll try to do it tonight but I'm heading out soon to see my gf, I'll log on later though, in about 3-6hrs.

[jaredpace]

alright where is the easiest place to have it hosted? I've never done it before/never had a reason to.

http://tinypic.com/

write posthmus XS, snap photo throw on tinypic, get addy & post!

[TheSynth]

http://filesmelt.com is the best image host, ever.

[GoldenTiger]

Where did you hear about supposedly lower-quality parts, by the way, Cegras? I've never heard of that before on XFX cards... would like to read if you have any links.

[cegras]

Where did you hear about supposedly lower-quality parts, by the way, Cegras? I've never heard of that before on XFX cards... would like to read if you have any links.

My own card has the PULSE inductors replaced with "R51"s. If the XFX card has a non reference heatsink, it's a cut back one for sure. If you've seen the 4870 with the down blowing cooler, the chokes aren't even sealed.

The GTX XFX cards with those rectangular coolers? They're majorly cut down - barely functional.

[Cuthalu]

Just got to love the "shes ugly!" attitude. People are having quite damn high standards.

...or mine are sub par.

It's not necessarily about high or low standards as such, but different preferences. Imo new Ruby is way too manly.

[Kylzer]

My own card has the PULSE inductors replaced with "R51"s. If the XFX card has a non reference heatsink, it's a cut back one for sure. If you've seen the 4870 with the down blowing cooler, the chokes aren't even sealed.

The GTX XFX cards with those rectangular coolers? They're majorly cut down - barely functional.

Yeah i know the ones you mean there god awful so i hear

but reference is reference and i shall be going for them.

[Vit^pr0n]

My own card has the PULSE inductors replaced with "R51"s. If the XFX card has a non reference heatsink, it's a cut back one for sure. If you've seen the 4870 with the down blowing cooler, the chokes aren't even sealed.

The GTX XFX cards with those rectangular coolers? They're majorly cut down - barely functional.

I think my card is what you're talking about. My GTX260 has a plastic looking rectangular cooler, yet it's working great. If you check my sig, it's even a banging OCer so idn where you're getting this info from

[cegras]

I think my card is what you're talking about. My GTX260 has a plastic looking rectangular cooler, yet it's working great. If you check my sig, it's even a banging OCer so idn where you're getting this info from

I think I saw pictures from where someone removed the squareish cooler from a XFX nvidia card. It was cut down from the original nvidia spec'd heatsink.

But in any case, I apologize for throwing up drama. It's just that I'm quite unhappy with being 'burned' on my XFX 4870 experience. Details are somewhere on the internet, I assume.

[DilTech]

I have a XFX 4850 1gb, and it's cooler keeps the card between 50 and 60c with the fan running 45-60% depending on the application... it idles in the low to mid 30's....

[TheSynth]

I don't know if this means anything, but 4870X2's aren't on NewEgg anymore. Perhaps they just sold them all.

[Jowy Atreides]

I don't know if this means anything, but 4870X2's aren't on NewEgg anymore. Perhaps they just sold them all.

Novatech stopped selling them too.

This must mean something

[cegras]

I have a XFX 4850 1gb, and it's cooler keeps the card between 50 and 60c with the fan running 45-60% depending on the application... it idles in the low to mid 30's....

That's pretty obvious. The stock cooler has incredibly low surface area; the XFX 4850 is a dual slot. I'm talking about 4870's and some examples of the GTX 275 / 260.

[postumus]

http://filesmelt.com/downloader/DSC00205.JPG

[tool_462]

http://filesmelt.com/downloader/DSC00205.JPG

Shall I PM you my shipping address?

Looks like you either live in dustville or you've been running that thing for quite awhile

[postumus]

that's the pic, thx for providing the link to the site, seems like it might come in handy

[postumus]

I think it's mostly my crappy k850i camera phone's fault, I do not live in squalor

[LiquidReactor]

I can say on my stock clocked i7 965 it's not playable in crysis warhead full hd res with 8x aa, was reallly smooth without the aa at enthausist settings, maybe 2x aa is doable. lol I'll try to run some benches on that, I only have that and the heroes of newerth beta installed

Thats got to be beta driver issue or something like that. My HD 4890 @ 1Ghz could push all enthusiast at 1920x1200 with no AA. Since you are playing at 1920x1080 there is no reason why your card shouldnt be able to at least run 4xAA.

[cirthix]

http://filesmelt.com/downloader/DSC00205.JPG

Wow, i did not expect you to deliver! you're a lucky one hehe.

[postumus]

actually I've improved my crysis warhead performance considerably, but I can't bench it, the benchmark tool i dled for it keeps crashing after the running the timedemo, during the time demo i'm getting 45-65fps though, and in gameplay it seems very smooth. I've kinda given up on getting that working though, doesn't seem worth the trouble with all these others benchmarks to use.

[Your_Boss]

@Postumus

Is the card loud? Normal? Quiet?

How far can it overclock?

What's the brand name? On it anywhere?