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Quote: Originally Posted by NeonGuy well ive ran them 5-5-5-12 jujst fine 1.92v and orthosed them rock solid...untill 5870 now 5-5-5-15 seems to stop the crashes. bout 95% better i only grey crashed on l4d2 . but ut3 and crysis warhead or l4d never . maybe the game is sensitive.. othosed isnt going to garuntee your ram is 100% stable. None of these stress programs do. Ive seen boxes pass 24 hours of prime etc and still crash because of OC.

Yeah the average PSU is going to struggle before the card does I fear, currently heat is really what is limitng overclockers past say a single 5870 can get, not much over 1Ghz basically. But if you were to then add watercooling you'd probably find the power draw on the PSU would be getting a bit silly, AMD recommends 20A on the 8 pin and 16A on the 6 pin and I know my Antec Quattro 850W puts out a rated 18A so...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. K6 Where? Yes, there's unused PCB space, but I don't see any rigging for a third power adapter. I see it, look at the 6 pin adapter, right of there is a slot with 2 leads coming out of the PCB behind it, that 6pin could technically become an 8pin, hell, if the circuitry is there, someone could do it on their own

Quote: Originally Posted by oogly Ordered a 5850 from Amazon on Oct 18th, it's been more than a month, still no ETA on shipment. Wow that's not even right. There's no way that your 5850 shouldn't have shipped by now when I got a brand spanking new 5970 from Amazon already. You need to call and complain with the BBB or something.

Well that's disappointing if true, still a heck of a deal on a 4890 though.

Quote: Originally Posted by PS3 Or there was always plenty of stock, and just price gouging. I'd rather believe this.

The same as you,but I have my 5970 hooked up DVI to HDMI to monitor and 285 DVI to DVI hooked up to same monitor.Windows 7 64 bit.When on desktop I right click on it ,pick screen resolutions and have the displays extended.I am using 285 as desktop one and 5970 desktop 2. EDIT:Physx patch should be installed in safe mode.If you can not get it I can tell you from start to finish what I did,but heres a guide made up by vjcsmoke that should help...

Quote: Originally Posted by Copyright othosed isnt going to garuntee your ram is 100% stable. None of these stress programs do. Ive seen boxes pass 24 hours of prime etc and still crash because of OC. Or your RAM is faulty like mine lol You can achieve 99.99% stable by stress testing with a combo of Prime95, LinX, Memtest HCI

wich ever has a good sale near xmas i will grab. im sure they will all run x2 5850's

Quote: Originally Posted by Dethred Notice that the 5970s are all gone, even the overpriced $685 HIS one. I wonder if the availability of the 5870s stems from the fact that you can get a significantly higher-performing card for only another $200. Possibly - I made the jump myself. At $600 I think the 5970 is a bargain personally, I couldn't understand why some people were calling it overpriced when it initially launched, considering...