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Catalyst 9.4 V's 9.5

Duran said:
i own high end cards from both ati and nvidia therefore i can form an opinion.
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So why don't you tell us your reasons rather than spout one-liners that are only going to serve as flamebait.

You know, the whole "forming a constructive argument" thing that you sometimes read about. :p
 
Tute said:
So why don't you tell us your reasons rather than spout one-liners that are only going to serve as flamebait.

You know, the whole "forming a constructive argument" thing that you sometimes read about. :p
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I know duran irl and I was there as well, the reasons are too many too list...
 
apart from the other problems I got the same or in some cases worse performance with the 4870x2 compared to the gtx 280. dont get me wrong I'm ****ed off because i was excited when i ordered the 4870x2 but it dissappointed me totally. I did clean the nvidia drivers in safe mode with driver sweeper. The benchmarks show different results compared to what i got
 
Do you have another PC you can try it in?
You might just have been sent a duff card. It does happen, yields are never 100%! :)
 
Duran said:
well when I get in wic 41fps average and with the 4870x2 40fps then there is sth wrong there...
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So that could be a combination of:

1. Not checking reviews before buying (most of them show slight increases at some resolutions and the GTX280 beating the 4870X2 in others.

2. Or perhaps its because you have a P35 mobo with PcieX16 v1.0 not v2.0 which although is fine for a "single GPU in a single slot", might not be able to feed a "dual GPU in a single slot" board like the 4870X2 or the GTX295

I feel for you, it can be frustrating this gfx card malarky, but I honestly don't think either Ati or Nvidia are producing rubbish right now.
 
Tute said:
Do you mean like this?

http://forums.legitreviews.com/about12459.html

Looks like a patch screwed it, not ATI...
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Well I didnt get the messed up fonts and I dont think a single 4870 would be able to compete with the gtx 280 but it did in my case. so I'm pretty sure it was running in crossfire.


Biffa said:
So that could be a combination of:

1. Not checking reviews before buying (most of them show slight increases at some resolutions and the GTX280 beating the 4870X2 in others.

2. Or perhaps its because you have a P35 mobo with PcieX16 v1.0 not v2.0 which although is fine for a "single GPU in a single slot", might not be able to feed a "dual GPU in a single slot" board like the 4870X2 or the GTX295

I feel for you, it can be frustrating this gfx card malarky, but I honestly don't think either Ati or Nvidia are producing rubbish right now.
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Well thats the point mate I checked reviews and they showed significant performance increases across the board. I do have a p35 mobo with PCIe 1.1 but my friend has as well a mobo with PCIe 1.1 and his gtx 295 is performing remarkably.
 
Catalyst 9.5 does not work well at all for me and my 4870 in CoD4, I get like graphical glitches of some sort so have resorted to 9.4. L4D works fine though...
 
Duran said:
Well I didnt get the messed up fonts and I dont think a single 4870 would be able to compete with the gtx 280 but it did in my case. so I'm pretty sure it was running in crossfire.
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I'm pretty sure WiC is an ATI-favouring game so I wouldn't be so sure. It really sounds like Crossfire isn't enabling. :)

Did you try any other games?
 
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