CPU will bottleneck your card by a lot, you should upgrade to some cheap Core2 and overclock it by lots imo.
How do you set the fan speed ? Also, can you set the shader speed independently as you can on the 8800GT's ? Thnx
I think you cant OC SHaders. You can edit profile file to set fan speed. Now it is set to 30% IDLE : 60C LOAD : 84C So i guess i can OC It more right ? IT was designed to take 100C at least ? Make sure your PC isnt close to some wall or something , card needs space to blow the hot air , my PC was very close to wall and i had higher temperatures than now on 45% FAN, 30% is not laud soo i just leave it that way. Will try higher OC later, allmost 8500 GPU score now in Vantage.
IMO; no...and I wouldn't even try that card with that PSU. It may be good enough, but, I wouldn't trust it.
From AMD: " 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface 256-bit GDDR3/4/5 memory interface Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support Shader Model 4.1 32-bit floating point texture filtering Indexed cube map arrays Independent blend modes per render target Pixel coverage sample masking Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders Gather4 texture fetching Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture 800 stream processing units Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors 128-bit floating point precision for all operations Command processor for reduced CPU overhead Shader instruction and constant caches Up to 160 texture fetches per clock cycle Up to 128 textures per pixel Fully associative multi-level texture cache design DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192) Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1) Lossless color compression (up to 8:1) Up to 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing Accelerated physics processing Dynamic Geometry Acceleration High performance vertex cache Programmable tessellation unit Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance Anti-aliasing features Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel) Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling Gamma correct Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only) All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering Texture filtering features 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel) 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma) Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF) Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support OpenGL 2.0 support ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform6 Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats High definition (HD) playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD video Dual stream (HD+SD) playback support DirectX Video Acceleration 1.0 & 2.0 support Support for BD-Live certified applications Hardware DivX and MPEG-1 video decode acceleration Accelerated video transcoding & encoding for H.264 and MPEG-2 formats ATI Avivo Video Post Processor6 Color space conversion Chroma subsampling format conversion Horizontal and vertical scaling Gamma correction Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing De-blocking and noise reduction filtering Detail enhancement Color vibrance and flesh tone correction Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) Bad edit correction Enhanced DVD upscaling (SD to HD) Automatic dynamic contrast adjustment Two independent display controllers Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display Full 30-bit display processing Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays Fast, glitch-free mode switching Hardware cursor Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)2 Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content3 Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15362 DisplayPort output support 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16002 HDMI output support All display resolutions up to 1920x10802 Integrated HD audio controller with support for stereo and multi-channel (up to 7.1) audio formats, including AC-3, AAC, DTS, DTS-HD & Dolby True-HD4, enabling a plug-and-play audio solution over HDMI Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite) Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions Underscan and overscan compensation Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time VGA mode support on all display outputs ATI PowerPlay™ Technology5 Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings Performance-on-Demand Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario Clock and memory speed throttling Voltage switching Dynamic clock gating Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs Integrated compositing engine High performance dual channel bridge interconnect1"
Anyone havin a problem getting the CCC to work with the 8.6? I have tried like hell to get this thing to work.I have xp home with SP3 and the CCC program installs but will not launch,Thought it might be a sp3 problem so I rolled back to SP2 with no luck,I have also tried the 8.5 CCC with the 8.6 vid driver with no luck......What a bummer!!:bang: Im almost at the piont to reformat.:thumbdown anyone have a similar problem like this? BTW when I launch the program I get a "Command line interface" error.
Think I'm gonna order a 4870 now. Would it be better to use the reference cooler cause its dual-slot or my ThermalTake DuOrb?
You should put it down until you're ready to build. It's going to get all sweaty if you keep holding it! :bigsmile:
I tried to leave my 4870 on my desk for one day. Then i bought a system for it the next day. painful to not to run it
More i use this card more satysfied i am , honestly i wanst even hoping for such a good change, sometimes upgrading nvidia card was causing problems. Big supries on the good side I am playing on low res 1280x1024 , soo i basicaly set max possible IQ i can. Even crysis is working with 4xAA and 16AF at this resoultion , big supprise I am soo happy with the card/drivers performace. I can only recommend it
Cant run on higher, i have 17" LCD,but i am not going to upgrade , i like this LCD, picture quiality is high. you can look it up some where Samsung 173P Plus(+).
