no wonder
raise your bus
ure having a bandwidth problem..
higher bus with a reasonable proc speed
faster sm2/sm3 scores...


and ure vcore too high for 3.2

orthos priority 8 bro..

1 means nothing..
and 90 percent usually unstable as its equivalent to 40-50 percent of TAT.
or just run OCCt 30 minutes would do.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Jan 29 2008, 05:56 PM

i just bought sapphire 3850, during installation of win xp, why the card terrible hot... the copper heatsink can boil egg...... and got the burn smell from the display card.
whats going on ?

it is normal,
for loading temperature,
3850 are very very hot,
u can try to set to higher fan speed to cool it down then...

3870 also same ?

3870 IDLE is around 40-45C,
load is around 60-70C

my idle is around 65~75

I thought u said ur using HD3870?? Why the screenshot says ur using HD3850??
If ur card is HD3850 then ur score is normal ah... Need to OC the GPU more kot??
Just my 2 cents ar...

how come like this ar.... 70+C

This post has been edited by syapl: Jan 30 2008, 12:03 PM

What casing you using?? Airflow good?

I got 3 cards on hand right now
2 unit of 3870 and one 3850
i am using 3870 for the benchmark score that i posted b4,
and the OC print screen is previously using 3850,
now OC with the same like i done b4, just changed the GC from 3850 to 3870...

Just installed Crysis this morning... you guys would recommend me to play at which setting?

i) 1280 x 1024 @ High Setting @ 0x AA
ii) 1280 x 1024 @ High Setting @ 2x AA
iii) 1280 x 1024 @ High Setting @ 4x AA

I guess anything beyond this setting will be lagging for me .

This post has been edited by vearn27: Jan 30 2008, 01:14 PM

3870x2 out at 1.5k
any body wanna let go their 3870?

It is normal.
The powerplay feature still havent enabled becuz driver wasnt installed.
besides,the fan is damn slow.
I would not recommend u to use ubuntu with it.
You would get 90C inside casing no joke.
It is hotter than i play crysis at full load.
Thats why i bought iceq,nice!

Dude forget about 4XAA in Crysis...even 2X have to think twice...in fact keep it at 0XAA

woah what a bargain wey

me me me after new year wahahahaha

wonder if 2 HIS hd3870 iceq turbo will beat 1 HD3870x2?

i still cant decide to get 2xturbo or 1 hd3870... got review stating they are almost the same with hd3870x2 slightly better, tat's tje normal hd3870 though...

just need some info bout this...

using thermaltake armor now,airflow i think is ok,although i open the side plane the temp just drop 1~2 degree

will maya 3d program alikes works well on hd3850? google but found a lot of junkies...

What is your "fan duty %" at the time when you're taking this screenshot? My HD3870 IceQ 3 Turbo (which is factory overclocked edition) running 50~52C idle and 70~72C full load with all stock setting. I then tuned the "automated fan speed duty %" myself with the RivaTuner and it hardly stay beyond 70C now since I set the fan to be 70% when reached 70C and 80% when reached 75C. It runs around 68~71C now while full load playing Doom 3 or Crysis .

Really that terrible meh? In which location Crysis will use the maximum graphic processing power?

Well, to be safe... lets wait for better revision and probably better cooler as well for the HD3870 X2 .

how to see the fan duty %?my rivatuner looks like got problem,the fan profile will no vaild after i set it