Soldato
Is this a statement or question?
I believe it's a question, to which the answer is no. It's more common for people to play games on their xfire set ups, rather than fanny around trying to get 2fps from a new driver.
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Who has waited for 6970 ?
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I believe it's a question, to which the answer is no. It's more common for people to play games on their xfire set ups, rather than fanny around trying to get 2fps from a new driver.
Soldato
I wanted to wait for a 6990 but not sure I can wait until next year. Might wait and see what the 6870 is like though, still quite a wait for that too (when you're impatient).
So now I'm tempted to just do 5870 CF. Don't expect that to match a 6990, but hopefully will be as good as a 6970.
Or I could get a 5970...
But then a couple of these are very tempting too!
So now I'm tempted to just do 5870 CF. Don't expect that to match a 6990, but hopefully will be as good as a 6970.
Or I could get a 5970...
But then a couple of these are very tempting too!
Soldato
I never juggle drivers.
As to find out that new drivers are worse in some games that people play that they go back to a previous and that happens on both NV & ATI & that's even without multi GPU.
I have never changed drivers back & forth for games & its extremely rare for people to change drivers depending on what game they are playing back & forth & more common for people to say that others do it than actually are doing it.
More exaggeration.
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Associate
waiting for either 6970 or 6950, although Im getting sick of my 4870 overheating atm
Soldato
Went to fire up my 4870 for COD and the noise and heat omg... just exited, rather wait till the new build to enjoy that and crysis for early next year
Im definatly gonna look for a 3rd party "silent" cooler for the next card i get !
6850 in crossfire works flawless for me in the games I play.
I can wait
What are the games that you are playing i have been considering 6850 in CF myself am truly a AMD fanboy as nvidia always let me down in the past, if the 6970 goes past the £350 mark will consider the 6850CF
Associate
Went to fire up my 4870 for COD and the noise and heat omg... just exited, rather wait till the new build to enjoy that and crysis for early next year
Im definatly gonna look for a 3rd party "silent" cooler for the next card i get !
Hmmm, its also overheating in Cod.....
Its official - COD hates 4870's
Why can't you just accept the fact that just because you had no issues, doesn't mean that others have not. And when they do, it doesn't mean they are doing something wrong. Are we all supposed to be impressed by your ability to read instructions and troubleshoot. You really come off as smarmy and full of yourself. I'm sure a lot of other people can do this trouble shooting just as well as you and still have issues. There have been plenty of posts on these forums about driver / game issues / strange behaviour. And even the release notes list bug fixes and known issues. As soon as someone says they have a problem, you come wading in with how you have no problems and it must be user error. Sick of it really.
As for my issues with ATI - I had no issues with ATI until I went to non-reference 5 series cards, resulting in me returning 2 out of 3 Sapphire Toxic 2gig 5870's for GSOD problems. The diagnosis was power management issues in the cards firmware (which wasn't reference) conflicting with newer driver sets. The replacement reference 5870's had no such problems. By the way, my Saphire 5970 4gig cards in quadfire scale nicley and no problems, especially with latest drivers (other then the odd synching issue with displayport). That doesn't mean other people have not had issues with 5970's in quadfire. Of course they have. In your case, maybe you should have put your superior troubleshooting skills to better use before ditching your 2nd 5970.
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Associate
Lol so glad things actually go wrong with pcs it forces us to learn more about our rigs and how they work
Any one want the easy life go play a console
Every one at some point will have problems no matter how well u read instructions
Any one want the easy life go play a console
Every one at some point will have problems no matter how well u read instructions
He has a point though, people far too often have a whinge about one manufacturer's drivers being crap and claim that they don't work, ever. It's annoying that these people can't look beyond this instead of feeling the need to let everyone know how their experience is the only possible experience any one else will ever have, ever.
While I very rarely have driver problems, I can appreciate how frustrating they are when I get them, but seriously people need to calm down, the frequency some people get driver issues here suggests a fatal case of PEBKAC over anything else.
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Caporegime
Well said sir.
I'm THAT patient