The Next-Gen Review Thread!

[gurusan]

I'm thinking about keeping now actually lol.

The reason I wanted to return it was because it would only oc to 690mhz, it would crash at 700....it turns out that was temperature related.

However I just ghetto-rigged the fan to stay at 100% the whole time (so loud)...now I idle 33c and am 49c full load....and now it passes 700mhz no problem, can't go any farther as that's all CCC allows for now. Need to wait for rivatuner or something else to support the 48xx series.

I've got a maze4 gpu block on its way to me so hopefully once this thing is under water and some decent clocking software is released I'll get a good OC with some vmodding



oh and 1 other thing. I don't think you can crossfire 38xx and 48xx series as I just spent about 2 hours trying. No worky :/

 

[Drizzt]

Aw, thats unfortunate. Gurusan... wouldn't now be a good time to W/C again? And can't you OC with rivatuner and stuff anyways, i din't know it had to support it.

 

[veedubfreak]

I'm waiting for the 4870 before i make any decisions about cards. My case will FINALLY show up tommorow, so at least i'll have something new to tinker with to keep me occupied.

 

[gurusan]

Aw, thats unfortunate. Gurusan... wouldn't now be a good time to W/C again? And can't you OC with rivatuner and stuff anyways, i din't know it had to support it.

..I am already watercooled....and rivatuner has to support the card to be able to control it. It doesn't yet.

 

[Drizzt]

Oh, what if it doesn't support the drivers? Because the riva tuner I have now doesn't i think.

 

[NosBoost300]

so.. has anyone else read that the 4870 on launch will only be 512mb....

 

[gurusan]

Yeah i think they are having some gDDR5 shortages.

 

[Drizzt]

The 1gb's will come in time. For now crossfire will be fine for you.

 

[NosBoost300]

are we speaking to me??

i must have 1gb!

 

[LeftEyeBlind]

How much for the 1GB version? (512?)