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Now I'm worried that the card may not like my Asus A8N32-SLI-DX mobo. It's PCI Express 1.02 according to Sandra.
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: blamb425
Seeing as the 8800GT was PCIE2 and was incompatible without the GEN1 BIOS, does the same hold true for the 3870? I was going to upgrade to an 8800GT256mb for Xmas but don't want to go through the hassle of using a different motherboard to flash the bios
Which Asrock board are you refering to?
I have tested a 3850 with the Asrock 4coredual VSTA and it was a no go on the current bios (2.10), same goes for the 8800GT.
I haven't tested any other but at a guess I would say the the 775Dual VSTA and 4coredual SATA2 would be a no go as well for PCI-E 2.0 video cards.
Originally posted by: VChuck
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: blamb425
Seeing as the 8800GT was PCIE2 and was incompatible without the GEN1 BIOS, does the same hold true for the 3870? I was going to upgrade to an 8800GT256mb for Xmas but don't want to go through the hassle of using a different motherboard to flash the bios
Which Asrock board are you refering to?
I have tested a 3850 with the Asrock 4coredual VSTA and it was a no go on the current bios (2.10), same goes for the 8800GT.
I haven't tested any other but at a guess I would say the the 775Dual VSTA and 4coredual SATA2 would be a no go as well for PCI-E 2.0 video cards.
seeing on how Stumps tested it I guess He would know.But in your case with the bios3.0 775Dual vista it worked.(Sinceccf, your a lucky dude!)
strange as I read that the UVD on the HD3850 and the HD2600XT are essentially the same in the registry.Hmmm.
Thinking about swapping out my 2900 Pro I have in My Abit IP-35 Pro and my E6750 for a Q6600 and a HD 3870.whenever Newegg starts sending me their newsletter again.
(Never mind ,came to my senses gonna sell the 4 coredual vista instead and screw that Newsletter !)
Are you running two seperate Cat versions at the same time? How do you do that?Originally posted by: SinceCCF
Actually I was thinking of putting an asus p5k-e if 775dual-vsta doesn't work with 3870, but my wife will kick my ass for it's another $200 for mobo and memory, I'm so relieved to see it's working perfectly with 775dual-vsta, well, have to wait for next summer to upgrade my rig for Intel Nehalem processors with the new mobo chipset. It's very nice to see 880pro, which is already quite old 880pro still kicking, I just put my 7 year old radeon 7500 to use three monitors on my desk, but ati driver was driving me crazy, for it's not compatible for 3870 and 7500. I'm using catalyst 7.11 for 3870, and tried 6.11 for 7500, I always get BSOD when I tried to boot into windows, finally I downgraded the catalyst to 6.3 for 7500, it's so amazin to use three screens at the same time, westy L2410NM for HDTV, philips 202p4 for internet/gaming, the last one Dell 1707fp for other stuff like messenger or internet. Only thing I found anonying is the 7500 is not compatible with media player classic so I can't play any movies on it.
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Are you running two seperate Cat versions at the same time? How do you do that?Originally posted by: SinceCCF
Actually I was thinking of putting an asus p5k-e if 775dual-vsta doesn't work with 3870, but my wife will kick my ass for it's another $200 for mobo and memory, I'm so relieved to see it's working perfectly with 775dual-vsta, well, have to wait for next summer to upgrade my rig for Intel Nehalem processors with the new mobo chipset. It's very nice to see 880pro, which is already quite old 880pro still kicking, I just put my 7 year old radeon 7500 to use three monitors on my desk, but ati driver was driving me crazy, for it's not compatible for 3870 and 7500. I'm using catalyst 7.11 for 3870, and tried 6.11 for 7500, I always get BSOD when I tried to boot into windows, finally I downgraded the catalyst to 6.3 for 7500, it's so amazin to use three screens at the same time, westy L2410NM for HDTV, philips 202p4 for internet/gaming, the last one Dell 1707fp for other stuff like messenger or internet. Only thing I found anonying is the 7500 is not compatible with media player classic so I can't play any movies on it.
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
But the drivers themselves have the same filename, and once you install the drivers, those files get copied into the \windows\system32 directory. So the last version of teh driver binary files that you install, is the one that gets copied into that directory.