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Possible 6870 Problem?

Quick update to any 7870 owners who stumble onto this thread. I went ahead and installed Windows 7 64Bit Professional and added another 4Gb of previously redundant DDR3 RAM, fired up Deus Ex again and the frame rate and gameplay were superb with zero choppiness. So, as a few of the posters above who had suggested most of my problems were likely down to using an old, 32Bit OS appear to be correct and that upgrading the OS would resolve my issues. However the card 'still' won't display an image on the monitor when inserted into the primary PCIe16 slot despite the fact that my GTX 260 'will', but at least it's working beautifully the secondary PCIe slot (which is a full speed slot BTW, X38) so why bother worrying about it right? When I reviewed the card via GPU-Z as recommended by a poster on this thread it displayed all the 7870's specifications properly!
 
it still could be a bios issue with the first pci-e slot and that newer card,im glad you finally fixed it though,win7 will give you dx10 and dx11 in certain games too which looks fab
 
Is that even possible, I mean the 6870 not working properly in the primary PCIe slot but working fine in the secondary one, even though my GTX 260 works properly in the primary slot (I know it's an older GPU)? As stated above, I also flashed my motherboard BIOS to the latest version! I know it seems as if I'm repeating myself, but I'm just trying to expand my knowledge base.....
 
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