ATI HD4870 suffering from premature deaths

[Ste]

The moral of the story is if your going to flash your 4800 BIOS you best be darn sure its going to work..

 

[gurusan]

No it's not true. The issue was with GPU-Z. BIOS files are normally 64kb but apparently gDDR5 requires some additional instructions so the 4870 bios is 128kb in length. This means people were only dumping 1/2 their bioses, so when they edited them and tried to flash it was a bad flash.

Then some of them claimed they didn't do anything and blamed it on ATI...

 

[Poizen22]

ya i dont think there will ever be a card as bad as the 7900gt for failure rates. i had t ogo thru 3 of them before i got one that worked and by that poitn it was a 7950gt lol.