I like these recent drivers though, all the video related stuff are played through the graphic card instead of the CPU.
Even Youtube revs my card from idle you 400mhz.

Yeah, a hotfix is really needed now!

Really? So I can use back WMP instead of Splash PRO to watch HD movies now, great..

Care to share the link? thx

Which brand that offer the coolest non-reference cooler for 5850? currently eye on sapphire toxic..but wait till SI to affect the price of 5xxx series

How cool is the Sapphire Toxic? Did you read any reviews about it already?

Yes, but cant actually believe the review as their country temp. is cooler than us malaysia...but from one review, the load hit 74C (toxic) while reference hit 77C..not much diff but d fan noise is much better...
and from overclock review, d load hit max 50C under 100% fan speed lolz...
so it will be much better if got actual temp from lyn forumer

I see. I'm using XFX non reference 5850, will do the temperature test for you maybe tomorrow.

Yeah, I thought it only works with VLC Player, (as it was official stated by ATi) but the card hogs every video related encoding to be utilized on it.
Even the modest Youtube (480 and 720HD) vids gets throttled.

Dunno if it's a good thing, but it's better off than the card to remain dormant in the case...well I paid RM9xx for it, might as be in employment.

i just suggesting u for powercolor hd5850 PCS+.. this brand bundle with steam game..

But the Toxic is using a better PCB which is about 1cm longer than the regular 5850 and with more capacitors for increased endurance when OC'ing.




@sai86,
The Toxic is far superior im hardware built than the rest of the 5850's line, but of course you pay extra for this 'enthusiast' features, and the Toxic cooler I think uses the Vapor-X™ system in cooling, do google up to confirm.
So you gotta decide to go stock or this.
The stock with non-reference cooler also considerable if you don't mind using the stock PCB, like the rest of us here

Now lets fill this thread with HD 6870 rumors!





Sos Kicap Masin

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I think I'm gonna kill maself thinking the 68xx was a soft improvement.
It humiliates the 58xx cards!
I feel I don't care anymore for the recent underperfoming drivers, their hardware pwnd big time!

I think it's a wise move for 58xx owners to sell their cards and use that money well saved to get this 6 series, the problem still remains of what is the rough launch dates of these new cards..
dont wanna jump the gun too soon by selling it now and the 6 series to come out late...

Yeap, i confirm it use the vapor-x cooling...now is all waiting for SI to shake d price ...
If the real performance is juz as wat is the rumour...AMD owns big time... ...cant wait till november arrive..

Hope the price not more than 5970..if not just grab 5970 one time and clear out all the mess!..

Any information about the power supply requirement?

read a news that in upcoming hd6000 series there is no more "ATi" mark..


amd radeon all the way..

Farewell to ATI, AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year

Source -> I'm Retired!

Aww...i still prefer tis "ATi" name than Radeon....amigos ATi and welcum AMD Radeon ...hope the SI is affordable and cheaper than gtx 4xx series...

just rebranding..

Rebranding but, comes with New Power ...Bull + Southern Island = AMD Vision

AMD all the way is better. So, people won't confuse and the public will know that AMD already bought over ATi.
But, I don't know why the AMD/ATi Graphics Logos do not look nice. Can they hire better designer? =.=?