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Catalyst 9.4 V's 9.5

well tested out the new drivers on my 4870 X2. I ran 3D Mark Vantage and lets just say the graphics were skewered during benchmarking. You could see distortions and the like and this has never happened before. Then during the CPU test it crashed. However, whilst playing games, cant say for sure but there was a slight improvement in Crysis, but I still hit over 40FPS on settings of 1920x1200 2xAA and VERY HIGH settings across the board. CoD4 can hit as high as almost 90FPS...:D
 
.:SAmSuNG:. said:
I had all my ati cards watercooled and the drivers were all fine so i cant bash that
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.:SAmSuNG:. said:
LOL you wait every month for your driver fix and you get slapped in the face by ATI making your card run worse. Had good times with ATI but there drivers and coolers have a lot of catching up to do with Nvidia.
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hmmmmmmmm........

Working perfectly fine here on a 4870x2 on the desktop and a 4670 in the htpc.
 
Why defend one company or the other, why go on a forum & **** off one company or the other.....pretty sad imho.

I buy from both companies, anyone who says one is always better than the other is living in a fantasy world. Both give us good cards & both have also given us some really crap cards, I don't find it upsetting enough to go around saying a whole brand is rubbish just because I have bought a dud.

Seriously some of these fanboys need another hobby.
 
BeeP said:
Why defend one company or the other, why go on a forum & **** off one company or the other.....pretty sad imho.

I buy from both companies, anyone who says one is always better than the other is living in a fantasy world. Both give us good cards & both have also given us some really crap cards, I don't find it upsetting enough to go around saying a whole brand is rubbish just because I have bought a dud.

Seriously some of these fanboys need another hobby.
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+1
 
Im not a fan boy at all as iv had a 4350, 2x 4870's and a 4870X2 so spent my moneys worth with ATI but the fact is the coolers on the reference 4800 series are pretty crappy. And the point of the 9.5's making them worse was due to the 4850 performing worse than the 9.4's! ATI owners are nearly always waiting on the next months drivers for bug fixes or performance gains. Ati have value for money thats true but there cards are little rough around the edges i would say. Nvidia just seem more refined.
 
Well that's weird, follow the links to download the drivers and it's giving me a 403 Leech message, from the download page.
Has someone broken AMD's website?
 
.:SAmSuNG:. said:
the coolers on the reference 4800 series are pretty crappy.
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Okay, I have to expand on this.

For months now people have bashed the reference coolers on many cards, stemming back to the old FX5700. But I have to ask, am I the only one who plays games with these little black boxes called speakers? Or listens to music while surfing?

In nearly ten years of using 3D accelerated cards i've come across one card that emitted more than a low hum, and that was almost certainly because it was broken.

No single card on sale today, without you holding an electric heater up to the front of your case whilst looping a GPU torture test makes a noise enough to be even close to irritating. Not even the FX5700 was that bad, when it was on sale.

And any possible sound a card does make is going to be more than drowned out by gaming. Or music. Or cars passing your house outside.
 
Tute said:
Okay, I have to expand on this.

For months now people have bashed the reference coolers on many cards, stemming back to the old FX5700. But I have to ask, am I the only one who plays games with these little black boxes called speakers? Or listens to music while surfing?

In nearly ten years of using 3D accelerated cards i've come across one card that emitted more than a low hum, and that was almost certainly because it was broken.

No single card on sale today, without you holding an electric heater up to the front of your case whilst looping a GPU torture test makes a noise enough to be even close to irritating. Not even the FX5700 was that bad, when it was on sale.

And any possible sound a card does make is going to be more than drowned out by gaming. Or music. Or cars passing your house outside.
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I would like to shake your hand, sir and buy you a pint. Very well said. I have my 4870 X2 fan on 65% faster than normal. Yeah its loud as...but when I play the likes of Crysis, COD4 and Bioshock and Wolverine, you can bet your top dollar I forget the fan noise...not to mention all my case fans are also on high in my Antec 1200 case. Besides, sometimes I leave my gaming PC on when not playing cos I actually love the sound the fans make...plus it makes for a great air con as my room is rather warm :D
 
Don't get me wrong - the stock cooler on the HD4870 is in no way silent when gaming, I can certainly hear it.

But only if I have sound off and i'm looking out for it. It's like a low whoosh, but it's neither loud nor annoying.

Unlike my old X1950XTX. I swear it was broken as reviewers used to commend it on it's silence. But it could rival a delta fan or even a hoover when gaming. Absolutely shocking in terms of noise.
 
Tute said:
Okay, I have to expand on this.

For months now people have bashed the reference coolers on many cards, stemming back to the old FX5700. But I have to ask, am I the only one who plays games with these little black boxes called speakers? Or listens to music while surfing?

In nearly ten years of using 3D accelerated cards i've come across one card that emitted more than a low hum, and that was almost certainly because it was broken.

No single card on sale today, without you holding an electric heater up to the front of your case whilst looping a GPU torture test makes a noise enough to be even close to irritating. Not even the FX5700 was that bad, when it was on sale.

And any possible sound a card does make is going to be more than drowned out by gaming. Or music. Or cars passing your house outside.
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Well maybe living in the country and not having a Antec 1200 means i can hear it more than others. I for one would have sold them after a week if they were left air cooled. I cant comment on the GTX 295 but both 285 and 260 are way quieter than both cards mentioned. Yes the X2 is a beast so maybe the cooler has a hard job but the 4870 has no excuse!
 
So you can hear them over your speakers? And they're annoying enough to make you want to sell them?

You seem like you're trying to find faults, really. :)
 
ATi shoud ditch those blowers imo, about time they changed to something quieter, only thing wrong with their cards that.
 
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TBH the newer coolers on the 4870s arent a problem, mate has one in his PC with 3 Noctua fans in the case and it is pretty much silent even when gaming. I agree that the cards with the older style (fan at the end like my 3870x2) are a bit whooshy when under load (for want of a better word) but i prefer that to a whiney high noise.

Card with fan in question:

 
I don't think anyone would argue that the old style cooler's were not the best and could and it might be argued should have been better. While i can't remember where i saw it i am sure ati have said that improved cooling will be coming on newer cards.
 
Those are not ATi's coolers though, those are custom coolers which you have to pay exta for, and you have to wait until the brands bring them out, as they all just do reference at the start, where as with Nvidia you don't, as their reference coolers are probably as good/quiet as those custom ones.

Ive got that Sapphire 4870, the cooler is indeed a cracker.
 
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