*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[kimosabi]

Just installed it with 8.12 drivers. First thing I did was to run a 3Dmark06, no tweaks, 3.8gHz CPU and stock 3Dmark benchie:



It sure is tight but wasnt so hard to install.



Lovely!



Will post more later, we're just getting to know eachother.

[Guttboy]

kimosabi,

Did you remove the black cover plate? If you look in my pics mine has it. Just curious.

[kimosabi]

Yeah I removed the cover. XZ3rorom3o here inspired me to do that and I noticed that the fan-holes were offset from the fans so I figured that cant be good enough.
The card now idles @ 38C and 25% fan. Lower than my 9800GTX but still a bit noisier.

[Guttboy]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

Yeah I removed the cover. XZ3rorom3o here inspired me to do that and I noticed that the fan-holes were offset from the fans so I figured that cant be good enough.
The card now idles @ 38C and 25% fan. Lower than my 9800GTX but still a bit noisier.

Noisy is not the word for it....OMG...this thing sounds like a vacuum! I haven't gotten into the software yet but do you know of anything that I could do to quiet it down a tad bit? It is like it is running on max even with just Vista running.

Thanks!

[kimosabi]

lol It's loud allright. You can always set the fanspeed in the Catalyst Control Center(CCC) in the ATI Overdrive section. Play with your fan settings and see what happens. However in my 900 it needs to be set @ 30% or below to be quiet though.

Pic:

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

kimosabi, really nice results and pics! Good job on removing the fan cover I did that on mine too. Props to xz3rorom3o on that. If you set this card to 20% fan speed (lowest in catalyst) it gets louder, which can only mean its running below that when not in use. You can try setting that, remember that you have to enable ATI Overdrive to set the fan speed as well. See if it works for you. At the moment, Rivatuner doesn't support this card, but once it does get support you can set the fan speed to lower than 20% and that will work for all those who have noise issues.

[Guttboy]

Hmmmm.....For some odd reason, I cannot do anything with CCC and overdrive. Please bear with me as I am way new to this card and the CCC. Is there a "primer" somewhere as to what to do with this? I could really use the help on it. I essentially just put the card in and loaded the CD. Do the drivers you suggest for download Open, do they affect the CCC?

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Guttboy

Hmmmm.....For some odd reason, I cannot do anything with CCC and overdrive. Please bear with me as I am way new to this card and the CCC. Is there a "primer" somewhere as to what to do with this? I could really use the help on it. I essentially just put the card in and loaded the CD. Do the drivers you suggest for download Open, do they affect the CCC?

It's all very simple. The drivers come with CCC which is an application that lets you fine tune settings on the card. If you are going to put on my drivers please remove the old drivers first completely with CCC included then restart and use CCleaner to clean everything up. Then install the new ones I have posted.

All you have to do to change the fan speed is click that little lock/key button then checkmark "Enable ATI Overdrive" and afterwords checkmark "Enable Manual Fan Control" and slide the slider to 20% or whatever you wanna try. Finally, click the "Apply" button to set the fan speed. After that just move the slider again and click the "Apply" button again to set a different fan speed.

Keep in mind, you cannot be using more than 1 monitor if you enable "ATI Overdrive" at all or you will get a black screen with artifacts and have to restart.

[Guttboy]

Got it....I found the little key....man this thing sounds like a BEAST...I mean really loud even on lower settings. Unfortunately for me I cant connect to the net with the PC as there is a problem with the driver...gotta track that down first!

I was able to do the apply and unlock...it was the little key button...thanks!

[BULLATTACK]

So after being ripped off by buy.com I am not sure what to buy. I can get the 4850x2 for $280 (plus a combo deal of 4GB of memory for $8 for Win 7 64) or I can get the more expensive GTX 280. Which would you all recommend be best for me? Or should I just spend the extra money and get a 4870x2? My budget is at most maybe like $330