*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Villainstone

Yes it is, I just got mine in from Newegg two days ago. In my excitement I just slapped it in and tried to run crossfire. For obvious reasons I had many issues LOL. Now everything is straightened out and I am technically running three 4850's. I have not benched them yet, because Vantage keeps crashing given me errors saying I ran out of memory. With 6GB of system RAM, and 2.5GB of VRAM I cannot see how that is possible.

Villainstone, congratulations! You are now officially on the Owner's List.

[oulzac]

Originally Posted by Villainstone

Yes it is, I just got mine in from Newegg two days ago. In my excitement I just slapped it in and tried to run crossfire. For obvious reasons I had many issues LOL. Now everything is straightened out and I am technically running three 4850's. I have not benched them yet, because Vantage keeps crashing given me errors saying I ran out of memory. With 6GB of system RAM, and 2.5GB of VRAM I cannot see how that is possible.

You should drop the single card and go two x2's

[Villainstone]

Originally Posted by oulzac

You should drop the single card and go two x2's

If only I could afford it

Thanks for adding me I actually felt like I entered a new level of gaming when I first set my eyes on it. I was like damn no more mid-range gaming rig LOL. Tri-fire, UD4P, i7, and a rock solid 850 watts to back it up. The monitor is next then water cooling.

[rico2001]

Originally Posted by Villainstone

Yes it is, I just got mine in from Newegg two days ago. In my excitement I just slapped it in and tried to run crossfire. For obvious reasons I had many issues LOL. Now everything is straightened out and I am technically running three 4850's. I have not benched them yet, because Vantage keeps crashing given me errors saying I ran out of memory. With 6GB of system RAM, and 2.5GB of VRAM I cannot see how that is possible.

Yea, I'm not liking the new drivers at all. The best ones so far were the sapphire ones on dated Jan. 2th (506), I believe. With the new ones (519), I crashed Devil May Cry 4 bench and lowered my 3dmark06 score, haha. Go figure. I don't own Crysis yet so can't bench it. Still a great card. Playing any game maxed out is an understatement.

[Guttboy]

Originally Posted by rico2001

Yea, I'm not liking the new drivers at all. The best ones so far were the sapphire ones on dated Jan. 2th (506), I believe. With the new ones (519), I crashed Devil May Cry 4 bench and lowered my 3dmark06 score, haha. Go figure. I don't own Crysis yet so can't bench it. Still a great card. Playing any game maxed out is an understatement.

I must admit that I liked the 506 drivers more so than the newest ones! I was able to try the new drivers out (before RMA/Refund) but they were not as stable in my setup as the 506s.

Miss being part of the club here but I will continue to check in and offer any advice/experiences with my old card.

My 4850X2 was defective so the fact that it was not 100% may have been the reason for my lack of success with the newest "9.1" drivers that were out on the Sapphire site.

Keep on trucking fellas....you guys are the "cutting edge" with support and information on this brand new card! I have cross posted some info on this thread to another site to help users there as well.

Side note: Today I will venture forth into the world of OC'ing....provided I don't pass out from post surgery drugs.

Best wishes to you all!

[Auld]

http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...r-quieter.html

Sapphire is releasing quieter 4850X2's. I have no clue but this might mean that you guys can contact sapphire for a bios flash to fix the noise, might be something to look into for you 4850X2 owners.

[tool918]

Originally Posted by Open1Your1Eyes0

I'm thinking about doing the same thing except putting on two Fatal1ty editions instead. How is the noise with both of the fans on auto, does it ever get loud like when you boot up the PC?

No it does not get loud, and you cant even hear them with fan mates on which I switched to after only given up 3-4c in temp.

[Auld]

Originally Posted by Auld

http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...r-quieter.html

Sapphire is releasing quieter 4850X2's. I have no clue but this might mean that you guys can contact sapphire for a bios flash to fix the noise, might be something to look into for you 4850X2 owners.

lol yep i quoted myself, but only to make sure people know what im talking about. I found this on another forum: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=206780&page=2

Originally Posted by ether.real

I talked to my Sapphire contact, here is the reason why they aren't posting the BIOS on their website.....there are two versions of the card on the market right now, and flashing the wrong BIOS will brick the card. So they are doing it on a case-by-case basis. If you want the new BIOS, PM me and I will put you in contact with Sapphire directly.

So you can give it a shot and PM him in hopes for a correct bios flash to lower the noise if it bothers any of you. I take no responsibility for any 4850x2 bricks though .

[Col. Newman]

What setting are people playing FEAR 2 on and whats your FPS?

[xgeko2]

Havnt tried fear yet or really any benchmarks i did try 3dmark 06 and got 11k i have new parts on order one of which being a phenom 2 so ill be re-formating/ocing/benching soon =D