lol... hope zhenwei will reply me soon...

hmm the HIS HD3870x2 had those.
saw them

yeah, the HIS hd3870x2 comes with it too....

I got the card from him during the 1st batch of stock arriving M'sia. The same HIS HD3870 IceQ 3 Turbo Edition and yeah, I did got that handy screwdriver set with led flash light. Pretty useful especially you need to see some "dark" spot in your casing .

BTW, anyone still experiencing the problem like the screen blackout while playing Crysis?

I keep on monitoring my gpu temperature and fan duty using RivaTuner while playing the game. My max temperature when gpu at load is around 70~72C with fan running at 70%. I wouldn't think 70C+/- would be too hot for a gpu at load?

It is really a little bit pissed off when you're enjoying shooting and bombing in Crysis when suddenly the screen blackout and force you to do a restart . I had restarted around 3~5 times to continue from "Core" till the end of the game .

Anyone experiencing the same? Would it be the graphic card problem or driver?

im on stock cooler....and its loud....

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Added on February 3, 2008, 4:50 amOnly on 100% fan that is...

This post has been edited by maranello55: Feb 3 2008, 04:50 AM

oo ...it's good enuff?
i did saw -pWs- benchies on 3dm06 with an athlon x2 3800 @3.2GHz and oc'ed HIS 3850 (749/999):

total : 9793
sm2.0 : 4098
hdr/sm3.0 : 4755
cpu : 2371

probably have to oc the card summore to match his.. hehe
mine :
total score : 9042
sm2.0 : 3868
hdr/sm3.0 : 4147
cpu score : 2329

hey, anybody know what's the core/mem limit for this sapphire 3850? seems mine is not stable enuff for oc.
This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Feb 3 2008, 07:09 AM

quite high i guess..my previous 3870 runs max at 72C at 55%..and my room is not aircond

i still haven't receive mine..
will get it 2moro i guess..
i'll check for you when i get it..

Sam here... I'm running my rig in a place without air-cond... quite high? Isn't my load temperature and yours just the same? Around 70~72C?

Dude i tried looking for it everywhere and came up with nothing...Is it like the one in my video? But mine black out for a while only...It is part of the effect actually...Can you take a movie of the problem or something(I reccomend GameCam)?
And can you post your problem here:
http://forums.amd.com/game/categories.cfm?catid=279

And fill this ATI catalyst feedback here:
http://support.ati.com/ics/survey/survey.a...ID=486&type=web

lol what is the screwdriver 4 anyway

its a souvenir from HIS

HIS iceq turbo only got problem when playin crysis? how about other brand 3870?

Well, for me... the screen (my LCD) went blank totally while my rig still running. However, all the responses such as LAN activity and keyboard & mice control all halted. Forced to do a RESET upon my rig to restart the machine . I checked my System Event Viewer and it stated some error with the ati2mtag and the description goes as:

The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.

This is the reason I suspecting it is the driver flaw. Another time I tested was bombing a AAA in Crysis. Whenever I'm bombing the AAA using Rocket or C4 while facing it to see the explosion, my screen went blank. Then another time I tested using C4 without facing the AAA explosion, it worked .

P/S: I already sent a feedback to the Ati Catalyst Crew this afternoon .

This post has been edited by vearn27: Feb 4 2008, 12:11 AM

Tried Crysis All Very High DX10 in Vista 32bit...Max res 1680x1050

OC my GC to 850 core clock and 1250 mem....100% fan...
Under full load the temp stays at 52c??? Amazing....im using rivatuner hardware monitoring...

I can get a very very smooth fps if turn off post-processing and game effects....i leave volumetric at very high.

At one point game crashed without a reason....while core temp stays at 52....time to get a patch i think...

vearn27........let us know of any replies

no problem with my asus

which catalyst ver. do u use??

hello all....

just bought his 3870 iceq turbo yesterday.
I have some problem wanna ask about.

I'm using acbel e2 510w.

The card runs ok, but cannot oc it even for a little bit.
For example, when I set core to 860, it started to black out when playing Oblivion.
I mean, it's only 10mhz increment for god's sake!

This is using the 8.1 downloaded from the internet.
But after I uninstalled and cleaned the driver, I tried the driver from the cd.
This time, Ati overdrive pushed the core n mem 890/2570

Again, when playing Oblivion, screen corrupts instantly, but when playing witcher, halfway, then hang.

Does this has something to do with insufficient power?
Or a shi**y mobo?
Cos mine is PCChips, which could only oc my e2140 to a shameful 1.7ghz
Or maybe the driver?

my rig is 1gb + 512mb ddr2, e2140, 1 hdd, 1 dvd writer.

Bro try to run ure system on stock first..no OC the GC and CPU...