Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/ 2008-10-07T21:35:33-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-04-22T11:17:47-05:00 Grizzlykeeper http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#534196 Just purchased the HD3870 X2 and it appears I'm having compatibility issues with the card and my mobo. The modo is an ASUS A8AE-LE [2005 version]. I am getting black screen on both monitors. I have a 700 watt PSU so power isn't the problem. I did notice that ATI provides a work around for problems with another ASUS mobo but it doesn't apply to mine. I've checked with HP and ATI. HP has no BIOS upgrade for the 1350n and ATI tells me to talk to my PC manufacturer. I did a check of my BIOS setting and notice that the VIDEO is set to PCI should it be set to PCIe.<br /> <br /> So if anyone can help out it would be greatly appreciated.<br /> <br /> In the meantime where is ATI/AMD with their support.<br /> <br /> Serge text/html 2008-03-06T04:02:02-05:00 Shadow_Ops_Airman1 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#530845 im thinking about the 3870 Toxic from sapphire myself text/html 2008-03-06T03:04:43-05:00 DsL.Dilbert http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#530841 Super... XP... said: <div class="quote">I just picked up the HD 3870 card and it runs great. These new Radeon cards are the best price/performance cards out right now. Picked mine up for just under $199.</div><br /> <br /> Nice pick up. That with rebates of any form or a sale? I haven't seen a HD3870 go for less than $230.99CDN normal pricing. text/html 2008-03-06T02:55:26-05:00 Shadow_Ops_Airman1 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#530838 oy lets not start a flame war ok text/html 2008-03-06T02:40:13-05:00 Super XP http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#530834 I just picked up the HD 3870 card and it runs great. These new Radeon cards are the best price/performance cards out right now. Picked mine up for just under $199. text/html 2008-02-09T07:22:37-05:00 Shadow_Ops_Airman1 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528411 surprised this topic is alive again text/html 2008-02-09T04:47:41-05:00 DsL.Dilbert http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528400 ian elliott said: <div class="quote">DsL.Dilbert said: <div class="quote"> However, one thing that seemed odd was that the drivers mentioned in the TweakTown review for the AMD side is the official Catalyst 8.1 drivers whereas Hardware Canucks is using a beta build of a future driver Catalyst 8.451.2-080.<br /> </div><br /> <br /> The beta drivers have a marked improvement it seems. Looks like this card will improve with drivers which is a good thing.Hardware Canucks has done well by overclocking the CPU and memory DDR3 overclocked. Maybe they should have used a X38 chipset or X48 chipset though.<br /> <br /> Has anyone seen what 2x3870x2 can do?<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/a-brief-look-at-crossfirex-scaling" target="_blank">http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/a-brief-look-at-crossfirex-scaling</a></div><br /> <br /> I'd love to see those benched with Crysis, Call of Duty 4, World In Conflict and Unreal Tournament 3. Pretty monstrous stuff. text/html 2008-02-09T02:35:01-05:00 ian elliott http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528387 DsL.Dilbert said: <div class="quote"> However, one thing that seemed odd was that the drivers mentioned in the TweakTown review for the AMD side is the official Catalyst 8.1 drivers whereas Hardware Canucks is using a beta build of a future driver Catalyst 8.451.2-080.<br /> </div><br /> <br /> The beta drivers have a marked improvement it seems. Looks like this card will improve with drivers which is a good thing.Hardware Canucks has done well by overclocking the CPU and memory DDR3 overclocked. Maybe they should have used a X38 chipset or X48 chipset though.<br /> <br /> Has anyone seen what 2x3870x2 can do?<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/a-brief-look-at-crossfirex-scaling" target="_blank">http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/a-brief-look-at-crossfirex-scaling</a> text/html 2008-02-09T02:24:52-05:00 ian elliott http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528385 Shadow_Ops_Airman1 said: <div class="quote">Dear Ian, to restate the topic, you think the card is PCi express 2.0</div><br /> <br /> I NEVER said it was and I've told you TWICE now, so stop the trolling. See page 4 for when I told you this first.<br /> text/html 2008-02-08T16:01:52-05:00 SombaSan http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528336 clearly ur smoking something i haven't heard of please share Gtox text/html 2008-02-08T00:17:28-05:00 Supreet Virdi http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528306 Well..I'm done and lost.. you win, and really appreciate your humor and the way you see benchmarks. text/html 2008-02-08T00:14:49-05:00 GtoX (capt Guns) http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528303 nah im serious, look at the benchmarks, the ati performs somewhat better in a few games, it definetly improved in call of Juarez, but except for that, its not that big of an improvement if u consider the fact that its a dual chip... when i heard my friends talkin about it i was expecting some major framerates, but that wasnt the case... take a look at graphs again, theoretically clock-for-clock, the gts is better... text/html 2008-02-07T10:02:28-05:00 Supreet Virdi http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528190 WTF? Are you smoking? &quot;compared to single chipped 8800GTS&quot;? LMAO.<br /> <br /> text/html 2008-02-07T09:35:32-05:00 GtoX (capt Guns) http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#528187 i must say that im a little dissapointed over this card, i mean think about it.... this thing is a dual chip graphic card, and yet can only deliver like 10 more fps in some games, compared to a single chipped 8800gts.. i still say nvidia's the way to go, and not because im a fan boy, but i am startin to see towards that light, but because Amd needs to rethink the architecture in their cards, sure its 10.1 dx.. but lol, when will we see that technology be used to the full... im still stuck on Dx9....<br /> and clock for clock, the nvidia still performs better if you compare it... the 3870x2 is like 800 something mhz, while the 8800gts 512 has like 650mhz (mine is oc and runs at 740), and still manages to keep up darn well... <br /> now, either the drivers for the 3870x2 needs to mature, or there is a significant clock for clock loss on ati's side..<br /> im not flaming, just putting it out the way i see it logically...<br /> amds next gfx series is looking interesting though, that i might consider buyin... text/html 2008-02-01T02:56:10-05:00 Sean Costello http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70463/?l=1#527575 yeah must have been misstimed, wasnt directed towards you <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile5.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":P" title=":P">