*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[Shroomalistic]

yeah might have to trade the 4850 for a vanilla 4850. still temped to just hold out and run just the x2 till i get the x-fi titanium.

Honestly, for normal gaming I dont think I will loose much performance going from tri fire back to x2. In synthetic benchmarks yeah but I dont "play" those much. I like to game. BF2 and L4D are my games right now and I really want to try out eax 5.0 in bf2. I dont even know why im running the x-fi xtreme audio/ audigy se. I can make my motherboard audio sound the same with the realtek x-fi mod.

[Chewman]

Originally Posted by Shroomalistic

yeah might have to trade the 4850 for a vanilla 4850. still temped to just hold out and run just the x2 till i get the x-fi titanium.

Honestly, for normal gaming I dont think I will loose much performance going from tri fire back to x2. In synthetic benchmarks yeah but I dont "play" those much. I like to game. BF2 and L4D are my games right now and I really want to try out eax 5.0 in bf2. I dont even know why im running the x-fi xtreme audio/ audigy se. I can make my motherboard audio sound the same with the realtek x-fi mod.

Looks like someone enjoys spending money
xD
dw, I do it all the time, then look back and be like "why the heck did I buy that, I have just as good stuff right here!"

[Chewman]

Just re-read the First Post, Seems that Open1your1Eyes0 hes posted the Catalyst 9.3 Drivers....
are they Tried and Tested/Working yet?
last I heard they made us HD4850X2 Users Artifact like hell.

[legend999]

Originally Posted by Shroomalistic

yeah might have to trade the 4850 for a vanilla 4850. still temped to just hold out and run just the x2 till i get the x-fi titanium.

Honestly, for normal gaming I dont think I will loose much performance going from tri fire back to x2. In synthetic benchmarks yeah but I dont "play" those much. I like to game. BF2 and L4D are my games right now and I really want to try out eax 5.0 in bf2. I dont even know why im running the x-fi xtreme audio/ audigy se. I can make my motherboard audio sound the same with the realtek x-fi mod.

Yep,you won't.

You know what a beast it is.

Originally Posted by Chewman

Just re-read the First Post, Seems that Open1your1Eyes0 hes posted the Catalyst 9.3 Drivers....
are they Tried and Tested/Working yet?
last I heard they made us HD4850X2 Users Artifact like hell.

I've heard some bad feedback on it as well...and it don't bring us Crossfire improvements,so..

[rico2001]

Originally Posted by xgeko2

sadly my 4850x2 bit the dust i believe i took my whole rig apart drilled 2 holes in the back of my case so i could flip my radiator on the back around and cut out some tubing and now when my card is in the computer dosnt even try to boot i get no video my mouse and keyboard dont light up but all the fans etc start up when i take the card out my onboard video works and everything boots fine without error. so at this point im waiting on the hd 4890 to come out gonna get one of those and hope sapphire will repair this card under warrenty.

Do you have another pci-e card to try. Reset the bios. Reseat the card again. Could be your pci-e slot.

[rico2001]

Originally Posted by Chewman

Just re-read the First Post, Seems that Open1your1Eyes0 hes posted the Catalyst 9.3 Drivers....
are they Tried and Tested/Working yet?
last I heard they made us HD4850X2 Users Artifact like hell.

The 9.3's suck for me. Many of us are back to 9.2s.

[xgeko2]

Originally Posted by rico2001

Do you have another pci-e card to try. Reset the bios. Reseat the card again. Could be your pci-e slot.

ive already been through that about 12 times with no luck =/ im going to keep trying though to reserect this card till the 4890's come out.

[Jakethesnake011]

I have become a trader to ATI, I just got myself a gtx 285 I only paid 286 for it, on sale. So I am going to try it out, and let you all know when I get it in a couple of weeks how the performance is, compared to this card.

[rico2001]

Man, where is the loyalty.

[Jakethesnake011]

For the price, I could not go wrong, I ain't going far, I will be looking for the hd 5xxx series when it comes, I really liked this card, I will be back for more ATI fun.