LOL, well the commenter can go to Sapphire but they have been far from trouble free
and less then helpful with ATI problem designs that are not BBA's. You may or may not
remeber my rant a few years back about going through a few Sapphire 3870x2's before
finally getting a VisionTek version.
3dmark consistently was able to crash my cards when I was having issues.
On 3/2/2010 11:02 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I know for sure that I have the latest mobo bios....and I just found
this comment on newegg (posted on 2/26/2010):
"
*Pros:* It's not HERS?
*Cons:* Anytime I boot up a game, 15 minutes later it crashes (or if
I'm lucky and if all the graphics are on low, it'll just be choppy
as h*ll) Went to RMA it, than found out there was a 2-4 week turn
around time (with more than one(hundred) people online saying
they've been waiting 5 weeks+ for it. I put my old video card into a
build I was doing for someone else at the time, so even 2 weeks
without my main computer is a bad thing, let alone 5.
*Other Thoughts:* It still runs everything but games, but flash
chops up every 10 seconds or so, barely noticeable, but it gets
annoying after a while. Also, it gets 3k below the average score for
the video card in Vantage... What on Earth did they do to my card?
But definitly not buys from HIS again. I'd go $10 and get the
SAPHIRE anytime.
"
I haven't been playing any games...only running the screen saver and
Aero....yet the graphic card would crash (stating a problem with the
driver).
I guess I should try some kind of game that really drives the
card...because I haven't done that. Other than Aero, this card should be
totally cool. WEI is the only thing I have run on this puppy...and I
ordered it on Jan 14.
Looks like I'm going to take it hard on this one....
I can try removing the heatsink...before I toss it. I ought to give
newegg some hassle about this, though.
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