*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Ledge68

Did you do any OCed benches yet and I missed them? Or have you not gotten to them??

I am wondering how well this card OC's and scores in Vantage?

I had 2 8800GTS 640Mb in SLI on my 680i OCed and scored 11528 in Vantage. I am hoping that this single card would out do those pretty easily...

I am having a few stability issues so far when OCing but as soon as i can get it 100% stable I will post the results. However keep in mind Vantage has a higher score for quad core cpus. Even though E8500 is better, Q6600 scores more in Vantage.

[Ledge68]

Cool and thanks. Hope you get your rig stable.

Why do you mention the Q6600? I have a E6400 in the 680i clocked at 3.2Ghz when I scored the 11k+ Vantage and yes I do know that Vantage and 3Dmark scores are effected by the cpu and how high it's clocked.

[tool918]

Hello everyone, I just purchased a 4850 X2 the other day. One thing id like to ask about is the 3dmark vantage cd that came with the card. It's suppose to be the full version but mine did not have a registration number with it. Did you guys get a registration number?

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by tool918

Hello everyone, I just purchased a 4850 X2 the other day. One thing id like to ask about is the 3dmark vantage cd that came with the card. It's suppose to be the full version but mine did not have a registration number with it. Did you guys get a registration number?

Yes there is a sticker on the CD paper case it's on. Check it for a number. Mine was slightly worn off so I called up Futuremark and asked them for another key. Post some benchmarks when you got everything set up. By the way, just put you up on the owner's list.

[Nirran]

Got the new motherboard today! Installed it got windows reinstalled but then had to go to work. I just got home and tested out L4D as when playing before it would artifact to hell most of the time it looked like then crash with a blue screen error. The game plays perfectly fine and runs great!

Can not wait to mess with some other stuff but it seems my old motherboard was the problem. Thank you much for helping me find the problem.

[xz3rorom3o]

I don't know about you guys but I used the most recent drivers from Sapphire's website and the card OCs like crap. I'm hoping it's the drivers.

Also it might help if everyone knows that when you have more than 2 displays connected, you cannot run CrossfireX in CCC...meaning you're only using one GPU if you have more than 2 monitors connected. I found out the hard way.

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Nirran

Got the new motherboard today! Installed it got windows reinstalled but then had to go to work. I just got home and tested out L4D as when playing before it would artifact to hell most of the time it looked like then crash with a blue screen error. The game plays perfectly fine and runs great!

Can not wait to mess with some other stuff but it seems my old motherboard was the problem. Thank you much for helping me find the problem.

I'm glad we could help. Motherboards are funky things so you would never know if there was something wrong with it or one of the parts, or both. Great to hear you got it working though. Post some benchies of 3DMark Vantage/06 and try to get Crysis and Crysis Warhead up and running and let us know what you get. Good luck and have fun!

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Notice: I want to apologize and give full credit to cky2k6 on mentioning the DFI bug. I was wrong to say that DFI made low quality boards as I have been informed that is not the case. Please disregard that post as I spoke only on based on a few reviews I have read in the past because I don't have much experience with DFI. I will make sure to confirm what I read before I make my own opinions from now on. I'm sorry if any inconvenience or misleading opinions were created based on that post. DFI just happens to have a bug with ATI at the moment but don't let that deter you from purchasing their products. DFI is a great company and is in fact very reputable and widely respected.

[skugpezz]

i game at 16x10 rez would it be ok if i got the 4850x2 1GB card?

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by skugpezz

i game at 16x10 rez would it be ok if i got the 4850x2 1GB card?

16x10 would be the aspect ratio, what resolution are you planning to play at? 2560x1600, 1900x1200, 1680x1050, 1440x900, or 1280x800?