*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[gsk3rd]

Does anyone have two of these in quad fire? I will be buying some new GCs but i want to see some benchs.

[oulzac]

yay! I get my PSU tomorrow and will finally be able to put this beast in!

[Pete1burn]

Installing my VF900s while I sit bored at work. Whichever tech put on the thermal paste was NOT very clean about it. There's paste all over the resistors and transistors on the inside of the chip which was covered by the heatsink. Some thermal paste is conductive. I'd hate to see what would have happened if I had power it up beforehand.

I could be being paranoid, but it was literally all over.

[Pete1burn]

Both attached.

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by Pete1burn

Both attached.

Nice!

[Pete1burn]

Thanks. I wish I could fit the shroud back on. I like the looks of it much better. But oh well. It's not about looks, it's about functionality!

[oulzac]

Well, I put my new PSU and this card in a little bit ago.
boot up, install the drivers off the CD that came with it.
Then install 3Dmark Advantage off the CD that came with.
The I run Advantage, and every test artifacts like a mofo.
The in what I assume is the final test, the fan on the GPU turns off, and the screen sticks on a total screen artifact, looks like the old TV temporary issue screen, but thousands of little color boxes every where. And it says like that for 15 minutes.
So I reboot, and load GPU-Z and this thing is idling at 47 degrees.

I have no issues just working in windows.
I have yet to load a game, or another bench program, as I am afraid I am going to over heat this thing. I think I may have to RMA this and get another card.

[Guttboy]

Oulzac,

Your explanation of what you saw with the "little color boxes" is exacty what my card looked like. Same symptoms only at one point I could not get back into windows.

[MrMan]

Originally Posted by Pete1burn

Both attached.

are those quieter than the stock sapphire fans?

[MrMan]

Originally Posted by oulzac

Well, I put my new PSU and this card in a little bit ago.
boot up, install the drivers off the CD that came with it.
Then install 3Dmark Advantage off the CD that came with.
The I run Advantage, and every test artifacts like a mofo.
The in what I assume is the final test, the fan on the GPU turns off, and the screen sticks on a total screen artifact, looks like the old TV temporary issue screen, but thousands of little color boxes every where. And it says like that for 15 minutes.
So I reboot, and load GPU-Z and this thing is idling at 47 degrees.

I have no issues just working in windows.
I have yet to load a game, or another bench program, as I am afraid I am going to over heat this thing. I think I may have to RMA this and get another card.

i noticed mine did that if i turned the setting in CCC down past balanced. try that before you RMA, just set it to balanced and leave everything else alone