Reporting in! 4850 GS user here.

That one kena preorder first.

The blackouts getting annoying. Do I really need a new PSU? =_=

so do mine. tho i am not really bother about that. my concern is more on the blackouts.

While in the middle of game, especially super intense graphical usage, the screen will blackout in several seconds and subsequently doing that later on. But on lower settings, there might be blackouts but less likely.

Reverting back to 8.7 looks refreshing. Only one blackout encountered so far.

I am still experiencing the blackouts with 8.7 but not that frequent.

GRID has that. Although on 8.7, it seems fewer (usually at the early game). Company of Heroes has blackouts too. Plus Gears of War. Even Age of Empires 3 has blackouts but usually once after starting the game.

If to think again, the Asus Nvidia cards didn't have crossfire bridge also before. not sure about now.

i mean SLI thingy

Only SupCom FA is recently new. Other two are old stuffs.

Guys, on funny note, I never experience any blackouts with 8.8 Catalyst on Vista. I set all maximum on Assassin's Creed. It's not that smooth especially when on the top of tower (eagle vision) but close on the streets and fightings are fine enough, very well playable. So far, I only tested Assassin's Creed. Perhaps Vista has better power management compared to XP?

only tested with assassin's creed. havent tried other games.

No.

i am buying a new psu from moderno.

off topic: the name also.

Gainward T-shirt? I don't mind as long as they have XXXL size for me.

why laaaaaaaaaaaah....

ngeh? so kena tukar? ish... just wasted time buy new psu

ok guys. i have both xp and vista on my comp. the blackout stuffs i got on the screen were on XP. so far testing games on vista, such blackouts never happened. it's weird. i havent got my psu yet (bought online before netraid announce the unstable thing). like i said, it's weird. i tested assassin's creed, crysis warhead and also half life 2 games like tf2 and so on. on xp, tf2 has several blackouts but not frequent. on vista, i never had any blackouts at all. so far so good. the xp is using 8.7 while on vista, it's 8.8. the 8.8 on xp was worse than 8.7 tho.

tho my only concern is that my comp became so hot just now after several hours of playing crysis. the game hang on loading. i just barely restarted my pc. was on the game from 11 am this morning.