Hot or Not? Sapphire 6850

[srock77]

My condolences - read about your ordeal - sounds like you are getting good advice - The first problem shooting should be to identify if you have bad hardware or a bad driver- Having a second machine is ever so helpful to swap parts in and out-If you have a backup (not restore point) - you can restore drivers that you know worked- I know your CMOS will be different now but that shouldnt matter. Keep us advised.

Steve

 

[srock77]

Just looking around and found this:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/AMD-Catalyst-Drivers-for-Windows/1058330408/1?all_reviews

 

[gevorg]

The best part about this card is that its near silent during idle/2D state. So when you're just browsing the web and doing non-3D tasks, there is no noise coming out of your video card.


<=== silence freak

 

[rivethead]

My condolences - read about your ordeal - sounds like you are getting good advice - The first problem shooting should be to identify if you have bad hardware or a bad driver- Having a second machine is ever so helpful to swap parts in and out-If you have a backup (not restore point) - you can restore drivers that you know worked- I know your CMOS will be different now but that shouldnt matter. Keep us advised.

Steve

Will do. First thing I'm going to do tonight is put it in my kid's system. I'm thankful that I have a second build to do that with...in the past I never did. The more I think about this, the more I think the issue is software/drivers and not hardware.

 

[rivethead]

Hey srock77,

I put the card in my son's machine and it installed fine and is running perfectly. I'm really starting to suspect my issues are driver- and/or software related.

The biggest thing I took from the Computer Help thread - If you've got overclocking software installed, you should probably remove that before installing a new VC. I suspect that's what caused my problems.

Enjoy your new card!

 

[srock77]

Congrats-looking forward to my install this w/e

Steve

 

[srock77]

My install on virgin Win7 x64 system - smooth as silk - looking forward to trying 3 monitors (flight sim) and video - system should handle it - quad core (9300)- 16 GB ram and 6850 -still exploring win x64 to see what will run and what wont

Steve

 

[Termie]

My install on virgin Win7 x64 system - smooth as silk - looking forward to trying 3 monitors (flight sim) and video - system should handle it - quad core (9300)- 16 GB ram and 6850 -still exploring win x64 to see what will run and what wont

Steve

Congrats.

Since this Sapphire deal is no longer active, I'm posting an even hotter deal - this Gigabyte 6850 for $120AR/FS:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...x-_-DesktopGraphicsVideoCards-_-14125353-L04B

 

[gorcorps]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-908-_-Product

$125 after rebate

Getting it for a mid-range system - Want to be able to play new Microsoft Flight coming out in Feb ( Flight sim buff )- Win 7 quad core 16megs ram (its cheap)

Will cards drop much this month with Radeon 7000's beginning to debut this month?

I hope you mean 16gigs of ram. I had more than 16meg of ram in my phone 5 years ago

 

[srock77]

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