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*** Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI £235.99 inc VAT ***
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Had to sell the kids for a i7 
Had to sell the kids for a i7
lol
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Had to sell the kids for a i7
Do they want 2 more, cheap. oh and a dog. lol
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Hi All,
I can report this card is an excellent bit of kit! Been playing with it now for about a week since mine arrived.
I've had a little trouble getting sensible 3Dmark Vantage results under windows 7 64, I either end up with results around the mid 10,000 mark (which seems low to me?) or lots of visual corruption. I've done a driver clean etc and installed 9.5 catalyst but its still not playing ball. I haven't got round to trying it on my Vista 64 dual boot as I still need to remove all the Nvidia'ness on that install. To be honest a proper re-install may be required for peace of mind!
More importantly, although benchmarking has been a bit of a loss, I'm playing Crysis at 1920x1200 on very high with no apparent slow down! It looks absolutely beutiful! My other half thought it was video not a 3D game when I was trotting through some vegitation.
Down side? Well it isn't quiet, after my 8800GT it's significantly louder when under load, but at least its silent when idling, considering the trifan is apparently quieter than the stock cooler, I'd hate to hear that!
It's fine if you game wearing a headset like me, may be a bit of a problem if you use speakers though.
Short of buying a stock designed card and either fitting the new Arctic cooling cooler or watercooling, this is probably the best alternative.
And at this price its a steal!
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I can report this card is an excellent bit of kit! Been playing with it now for about a week since mine arrived.
I've had a little trouble getting sensible 3Dmark Vantage results under windows 7 64, I either end up with results around the mid 10,000 mark (which seems low to me?) or lots of visual corruption. I've done a driver clean etc and installed 9.5 catalyst but its still not playing ball. I haven't got round to trying it on my Vista 64 dual boot as I still need to remove all the Nvidia'ness on that install. To be honest a proper re-install may be required for peace of mind!
More importantly, although benchmarking has been a bit of a loss, I'm playing Crysis at 1920x1200 on very high with no apparent slow down! It looks absolutely beutiful! My other half thought it was video not a 3D game when I was trotting through some vegitation.
Down side? Well it isn't quiet, after my 8800GT it's significantly louder when under load, but at least its silent when idling, considering the trifan is apparently quieter than the stock cooler, I'd hate to hear that!
It's fine if you game wearing a headset like me, may be a bit of a problem if you use speakers though.
Short of buying a stock designed card and either fitting the new Arctic cooling cooler or watercooling, this is probably the best alternative.
And at this price its a steal!
E-I
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I wonder how this compairs to the Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 "Golden Sample" with 2 fans.
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That'd be an interesting comparison, anyone getting both
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I belive Fatboy stated that they "should" be getting them in today providing Asus dont mess him about again.
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Any chance of giving mine a nudge in the right direction OC816386. Thanks Fatboy.
You will get your shipping confirmation shortly
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Thanks , you`ve put a great big smile on my face . Don`t you just the new hardware coming feeling . Cheers matey .
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Damn dont wanna be that 1 person thats not shipped. lol
k so my mate got his today hes having a couple of probs though.
1 hes setting his fan to 50 percent and temps are fine but its speeding up to 100 % .i have asked him if hes done it correctly and hes shown me screenshots at the correct setting hes usinng 9.5 drivers. is there anything else he should be downloading driver wise?
1 hes setting his fan to 50 percent and temps are fine but its speeding up to 100 % .i have asked him if hes done it correctly and hes shown me screenshots at the correct setting hes usinng 9.5 drivers. is there anything else he should be downloading driver wise?
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When does it speed up to 100%? When playing games or just idling?