Hi all,

I have just recieved my XFX HD 5870 there is 3 days, so I'd like to share my experiece to maybe help people.

So far I haven't got any problems, I have runned several 3DMark Vantage bench mark and Unigine Heaven bechmark too. Then I have a played a couple of hours to Dirt 2 and Mass Effect 2 during my weekend (never more than 1 hour in a row).

My configuration is :

eVga P55 FTW + Core i7 860 oc @ 4.2 Ghz.
8Gb (4x2Gb) of DDR3 Gskill Trident 2000Mhz.
Intel SSD 80Gb Postville.
XFX HD5870 watercooled.

My cpu overclocking is not rock stable, I can't do more than 15 min of Linx, so it don't seem an unstable config always cause trouble with HD 5870. But my system never crash, the only thing that give a error is Linx.

I have started on a clear Windows 7 x64 installation with Catalyst 10.1 driver. I was totally unable to install Catalyst 10.1 on my current system install, the setup was always crashing (maybe due to old nVidia driver, I was using my 8800 GT while waiting for my Radeon).

Once again my experience seem to put away eventual driver or bios problem, my card seem to just work fine out of the box. Maybe they have corrected something as mine is quite recent. Of course I have not tryed to oc it, I will leave it as it's for a couple of months.

I hope it will give some clues to the problem and that my card will stay stable lol.