GPU score or Vantage 3DMark score?
That 4870x2 score that low? Last time I CFed 4870+4850 also 11k GPU & 3DMark scores.

Get Gainward 4870GS lar. Join Gainward clubz & won prizes, girls, get discount when buying games.

Last time my 5000+BE scored pretty low in Vantage. Quadie sure score higher than 10k CPU score.
Now my proc is 12k pts @ 3.3Ghz. The score is really depending on the CPU frequency.

Mine is 800/2100 after installing CCC 8.10. I can OC higher with 8.7.

Yeah, I got the "feel" of the galz inside the package.
Most prolly it's bcos I'm a noob in OC thingy gua

Not experience the black screen problem so far.
Grab this gun 4870GS & blast it at the coming games.

As expected. I lolled

Not yet, most prolly will be available on mid Nov, according to Netraid.
None official price is speculated to be only ~RM35 cheaper than its elder bro 4850.
Wish it's not the final price.

Yeah, exactly the same board & cooler. Different I/O panel.

zhen^wei's selling for RM480, and that's roughly about RM90 cheaper than their 4850.

Wait for a while the price will drop, drastically when the time comes.

True, the sellers also want profit.

2 bioses. If the one of the bios corrupted during flashing, switch to the 2nd bios.

Toxic cooler is not that good.

Damn it. That's horror clock! What a low mem clock. Benchies how? Artifacts?
May be u should open a 4870 OC thread? How's it?

Cant wait to see CF 4830!

Haha, downloading last piece of rar for FC2... oops finished finally.

Installed & played FC2 just now.
1st impression: superb picture quality.

That were pretty hot temps for 4850. My 4850 was about 60C idle, 80C on load @50% fan speed.
Increase the fan speed (might be too noisy) or get a 3rd party cooler such as Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo or ThermalRight T-RAD2

This post has been edited by owikh84: Oct 30 2008, 06:28 AM

I heard Akasa Vortexx NEO is not good for 4870.
For some reasons the cooler is kinda worse than ATI ref cooler.

It did happen to my 5000+BE last time.

Ur ThermalRight Trad2 still not reach ar?

Catalyst 8.10 hotfix kidnapped stones in Far Cry 2

Far cry 2 was released on Oct 22nd, and AMD reacted quickly this time by releasing a hotfix driver, optimized for Far cry 2. You can check the release note for details. We compared Catalyst 8.10 and the hotfix, it does help the game to get higher FPS.

Benchmark platform:

Intel Core 2 Duo E5200
ASUS Striker II Extreme
PowerColor Radeon HD 4830
KingSton DDR3 1066 1GBX2



Yes the driver can boost FPS of Far cry 2, but do you still remember Furmark? Catalyst has “profiles”, which they can tweak different applications by monitoring name’s of executable, making them run slower or faster. And yes, you have to pay if it runs faster.

If we rename furmark, it runs hotter than keeping the name with ATI cards. It works the same with Far Cry 2. Under hotfix environment only rename it and the game runs as the same FPS as with Cat 8.10.

So, we take a better look at the environment, finally find out hotfix have chopped something off from the game. Read this pics:


Catalyst 8.10 hotfix, stones messing!


Catalyst 8.10

This post has been edited by owikh84: Oct 30 2008, 09:12 PM