*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Nirran

Well I have finally ran out of options. I am still having problems with this video card. I keep getting the crashes with the blue screen error and texture flashing in 3dmark06 and 3dmark vantage.

Summary:
New Motherboard
2nd card with same problems
Tested ram and cpu with no errors
New PSU

Result:
Same damn problems

Try this, put everything at stock (don't overclock anything). Try the same thing again. I wish I were there to help you man. Im really interested in what is wrong cause everything works for me so it's definitely not the software or driver issue unless something is corrupted. As a last thing I'm thinking though I still doubt it. Hard drive could be messed up. Try installing clean on a hard drive that 100% works for you. Don't install anything else besides drivers for the graphics card and one software to check if you have errors. Run that software, like 3DMark Vantage or 3DMark06 as long as you can until you see you have no errors. If all else fails there is a very good chance you are unlucky enough that you got a defective card again.

[Nirran]

I figured out the problem I believe. I reinstalled drivers and disabled my sound card under devices because someone said that could cause a conflict between them and my video card drivers. Either reinstalling drivers or disabling my sound card drivers has fixed it because I played tr:u and PoP for a awhile now with no problems.

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Nirran

I figured out the problem I believe. I reinstalled drivers and disabled my sound card under devices because someone said that could cause a conflict between them and my video card drivers. Either reinstalling drivers or disabling my sound card drivers has fixed it because I played tr:u and PoP for a awhile now with no problems.

Yeah man I knew something was funky there. Sound cards have really weird errors sometimes. I remember back when I had XP Direct3D sound was embedded with the kernel of the OS and it gave a lot of blue screen if there were corruptions or wrong drivers or something. As a way to fix this, Microsoft got rid of the embedded sound and thus removed hardware sound acceleration in Vista. However drivers are always going to be an issues, but the good thing is they will improve as they go on. I'm really glad its working now though cause I was really mind-boggled trying to figure out what could be wrong.

[skugpezz]

Originally Posted by Open1Your1Eyes0

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

ion newegg.ca the 1GB version is for $366 and the 2GB version for $402 cad... too much..the 1GB version splits it 512MB per gpu so would it be better to just get a 48701GB card?

[DesertRat]

skugpezz, glad I'm not the only one who saw that there's a cheaper 4850x2 w/ only 2x512MB of mem now...

and the X2 would still be better because of the other rv770pro core. Still alot more power than a 4870 1GB right there

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102813

edit: i wonder if the 1GB ver. still whups the GTX280?

[skugpezz]

Originally Posted by DesertRat

skugpezz, glad I'm not the only one who saw that there's a cheaper 4850x2 w/ only 2x512MB of mem now...

and the X2 would still be better because of the other rv770pro core. Still alot more power than a 4870 1GB right there

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102813

edit: i wonder if the 1GB ver. still whups the GTX280?

yes the 1GB version of the 4850x2 beats the gtx 280 in every test by this review
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...850_x2_review/

[DesertRat]

Originally Posted by skugpezz

yes the 1GB version of the 4850x2 beats the gtx 280 in every test by this review
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...850_x2_review/

In that review according to the test setup they're using the full 2GB model, but mention the 1GB.

[skugpezz]

Originally Posted by DesertRat

In that review according to the test setup they're using the full 2GB model, but mention the 1GB.

i wonder if it is an error... on the graphs there is the 4850 x2 1GB

[DesertRat]

Originally Posted by skugpezz

i wonder if it is an error... on the graphs there is the 4850 x2 1GB

very confusing...

I wonder if I can shoot them an e-mail and ask which was actually benched?

edit: Sent 'em an e-mail asking for clarification. I'll post their response whenever I receive it

[fr33dy]

Pretty video card, but isn't here results 3DMark06 ?