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My 5870 experience - Problems

It's definitely a bios issue but not one I can live with at the moment.

To be honest if I loved the card that much I would have stuck with it but it was more trouble than it was worth at this time.

The GT300 may well prove to be more trouble. We'll wait and see.

I may find I pick up the 5870 x2 at a time when the issues are resolved though X2's and *95's with dual gpu's tend to have their own issues in my experience.

I had a grace period with my purchase and I am exercising that right.

If you love your ATI card then fantastic. I am niether Nvidia or ATI. I take whatever is best for me at the time.
 
People need to calm down with blaming graphics cards for things.

More likely than not, it'll be a fault with the motherboard itself.

As for the driver issues, I'd suspect nVidia drivers haven't been removed properly
 
yes I cleared CMOS - that was my first thought.

I did remove nvidia drivers completely before the card ever got near my system.

Call it a motherboard issue if you like but it is now one people are aware of incase they think of purchasing the card.
 
Aurhinius said:
yes I cleared CMOS - that was my first thought.

I did remove nvidia drivers completely before the card ever got near my system.

Call it a motherboard issue if you like but it is now one people are aware of incase they think of purchasing the card.
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It is indeed ONE issue.

Don't get me wrong, when things go wrong, it can be so frustrating trying to problem solve and I can appreciate the amount of frustration it can cause.

I personally just quickly re-install windows instead of wasting time trouble shooting.

A lot of issues that get blamed on graphics cards aren't actually the fault of the card itself.
 
I think it's his mouse, have you tried resetting the mouse?

Try clicking the left button then the right 6 times, if this doesn't work I'm stumped!
 
The end of the day, he's stated he's returning the 5870 and keeping his 280 and that's his call to make, and it is still a very good choice (should have stayed with the 280 in the first place).
 
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