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3870 buyers BEWARE!
I recently purchased a hd 3870 from ocuk it was there own brand and advertised with blower fan and memory coolers but when it arrived it wasnt the case it has the aftermarket cooler which blows hot air around the case but this isnt the worst of it !! this card will NOT overclock at all in ati overdrive the bios is locked !! from doing so it will work in rivatuner but this is besides the point who wants a locked bios to stock speeds especially from a well known overclocking website !!! and they acually put there name on it!! another thing they had a one week special offer on the price of this card they must have sold heaps of them as its a popular card but heres the bottom line they only have one good customer review for it!!! now im thinking theyve had heaps of complaints and are only showing the good reviews ie "1" probably made up by themselves heres the card in question although it works great at stock if you wish to overclock DO NOT BUY!!
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Did you click on this button ??
![]() If not you need to click on this to unlock the overclocking feature in CCC.
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is it possible to flash the bios when it is locked?
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send it back and say its not as described.. make noises they wiill swop it.. basically when u buy OC/UK claimed own brand stuff its pot luck what u get from what i read..
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You should change the title to do not buy from this Http://This website.com!
The title is very misleading. I have an Asus 3870 and had no issues overclocking at all. |
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Have you not flashed it with any of the new bioses that are floating about the internet? I too think that you haven't hit the unlock button in CCC...I wouldn't let CCC set the card's max' clock speeds tho, I have to bring them down from what it says is fine or I get crashes!
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State #1 GPU: 777 MHz, Memory: 1126 MHz (Boot) State #2 GPU: 775 MHz, Memory: 1126 MHz (OverDrive) State #3 GPU: 775 MHz, Memory: 1126 MHz State #4 GPU: 775 MHz, Memory: 1126 MHz (UVD) it seems to stick to these values even if i overclock or even underclock i am gonna ring ocuk but i get a very bad feeling they arent gonna comply as i said they must have misslead others but just not added the bad reviews failing this im gonna get it flashed but my floppy drives acting up abit atm doesnt seem to want to format anything so so i darent risk it. Last edited by Nitro-Max; Jan 16, 2008 at 11:55 PM. |
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why is you gpu clock set to 300mhz? when mines always at 775mhz
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One word. VISTA. Use RivaTuner, CCC sucks even on XP for OCing.
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I can get my card to 857core and 1387mem.Quote:
Hope this helps.
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Try ati tray tools.
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i always use the CCC for tweaking my ati cards.. never had the slightest problem with it..
in fact its the only thing that works on an automatic basis.. atitool crashes my card at speeds i know it should run at.. and rivatuner seems good for setting a fixed speed only.. i am on xp.. trog |
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I used winflash today to flash to the new Bios, worked fine, machine is on at hom now purring away like a kiten
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just keeps saying subsystems id missmatch i click continue and nothing? can anyone mod my present bios to make it act like it should?
Last edited by Nitro-Max; Jan 17, 2008 at 02:58 AM. |
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You're probably gonna have to use a DOS based program and force it to ignore vendor info.
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Spend the extra 10er in future then
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Let me get this straight, You saying that when i auto-tune in CCC it sets the upper limit for my card and when i start my Crysis session it automatically goes from idle 300 to the upper limit? Im asking cuz i also was confused about ccc overdrive, i set it to 777 manually or do AutoTune but my "Current Clock Settings" still showing 300Mhz.
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What exactly do you gain by flashing vid bios? I just got the Asus eah3870 and i figured they would put the latest bios in at the factory?
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well i managed to get a full refund from ocuk now as the card ran into issues anyway and gave up!! gonna buy a gecube overclocked edition next
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