You'll have to be very 'lucky' to fail a BIOS flashing

kakaka...if windows flashing mobo is different story lar den

I always Windows flash motherboard BIOS one wor...

well, i was "lucky" enough dat last time durin flashing my 4870, power went off.................x_x
no problem 4 me. dual bios...........

ex-4870 user reporting in, now I'm on HIS HD4850 IceQ4 turbo crossfire. wonder if anyone here who are doing 4850 crossfire?

CF 4870GS + 4850 (680/993)

4870+4850 works like charm

Any one use the 1GB version. How does it fair and is it worth the extra 100?

hey bro, mind test out how much u got for 3dmark06?

P/S: Still haven't sold your 4850?

This post has been edited by metsatsu: Oct 15 2008, 07:03 AM

wonder how cf 4870+4850 performs compared to 2 4850

Apparently almost the same. I think guru3d has a review of cf 4870+4850. U can try googling it

My HD4850 + HD4850 CF

check here..
http://www.guru3d.com/article/gigabyte-rad...5oc1gi-review/8

according to the review.. only crysis benefit from extra ram..

so u did pencil vmod for both cards eh?

by the way, mind to post up your 3dmark06 score as well?

This post has been edited by metsatsu: Oct 15 2008, 05:23 PM

Reference cards? What modding was done? Pencil mod? or bios mod to change the voltage?

obviously not bios mod. bet my birdie on it that it's hard modded


































joking joking 99% sure, and won't bet anything

GG, I'll keep this as a record .

Now 825MHz, damn great. I've seen 4850 with GPU-Z validation at furmark's website. 625 to 825. Wonder how he did it...

well both the 4850 and 4870 cores are the same RV770 core. it's just that by default 4850 is fed with 1.158v for the vcore and 4870 fed with 1.236v, so that i can it be oc'ed higher. Alot of the 4850 3rd party manufacturers actually set the vcore for 4850 at 1.12v or even 1.08v to keep the temp low, but it is possible for us to bios mod it to 1.158v which is the maximum for 4850. with 1.158v we can oc the core speed to 700mhz without sweat. anything higher than that would require a hard mod. u can google about '4850 voltage mod' or '4850 pencil mod'. U will find alot of info about it.

so far my HIS 4850 IceQ can do 700/1130 after soft modding to 1.158v, but any higher oc will crash.

Hmm, I manage to do 750/1150 on my GS. Didn't game much, a bit of Warhead and a bit of GRID. Survived for about 30minutes each, didn't crash (yet..) Well, still waiting for the fans I ordered for my case >.< Will try out more when I get them. (Supposed today.. but tak sampai yet haiz).

lol. game on then. keep us updated. oh here's a link for u to tickle your urge to oc further LINK