Alot will depend on whether the E4700 can run overclocked without any voltage adjustments, which aren't available on the 4coredual-vsta. The default voltage will be critical and its a crap shoot as to what that might be.
Most benchmarks I've seen (and there are only a few) show the 4850 benching about the same or more as a 3870 on the 4coredual. Not bad for a sub $200 video card. For anyone with a video card below Nvidia 8800 or ATI 3870, you should see big gains with the newer cards. The 4x PCI-E is definitely...
Have you tried running it at 266 set to Sync? At that speed, the PCIE bus and RAM will be running at standard frequencies and you should have much better stability. I would loosen your RAM timings and T command till you at least know the rest of the system is stable. My E4400 easily runs at...
Be careful with flashing your BIOS too many times... my 4coredual blue screened on me in the middle of my 6 or 7th BIOS flash. Those EPROMS can only be flashed too many times, i reckon.
not sure if you got my PM, its acting kinda funny with mozilla, but that would be awesome... PM me your paypal address, if you have one, and I will send you the money.
the fact that it posted at all and recognized the 4gb is a good sign... try going into BIOS with only 2GB and try setting the memory to flexible. This may at least allow you to POST. You may have to experiment with different RAM settings in BIOS.
The ability to run the 4coredual boards at a 300FSB will also depend heavily on the cpu and how well it runs without a volt mod. My 1.325V E4400 maxes out at 2.66 at default vcore which limits my FSB to 266. Other E4400s with a lower default voltage would probably be able to run a little faster...
Engineer, EVGA's recent BIOS for 8800GT and GTS 512 cards work on the PT880Pro/Ultra boards without flashing. This is the BIOS that has been shipping on all EVGA cards since January. This has been confirmed by multiple sources.
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