The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[dqniel]

I can game for hours in Windows 7 x64 (CoD4, NFS:Shift, HL2, etc) on my Sapphire HD 5870 without issues. No FPS drops, no artifacting, no crashes. However, I get VPU recoveries and occasionally screen blackouts and freezes when doing simple things such as viewing flash players online (Youtube, etc) or watching videos with media players (MPC, MPC HC). I've tried the drivers that came with the card, the drivers on ATI's website, and even MSI's supposed RC8 release. Anybody else having stability issues in Windows 7 x64? I'm wondering if it's just a driver issue or if there's a hardware issue at play here. Also, I forgot to mention that I have locked the PCI-E at 100Mhz.

Thanks for your input.