paul06660
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Processor | AMD Phenom x6 1090t black edition |
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Motherboard | ASUS M5A99X EVO |
Cooling | Cooler Master Triple Heatpipe Cooler with Gelid blue fan |
Memory | 8 gigs GsKill DDR3 1600 |
Video Card(s) | Asus Raedeon HD7850 |
Storage | Western Digital Raptor 74gig, Terabyte Seagate SATA 6.0 |
Display(s) | AOC 19" Widescreen |
Case | Custom modded Black Raidmax case |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard Realtek HD audio |
Power Supply | BFG Tech 550GX gold certified |
Software | Windows 7 64 bit ultimate |
Benchmark Scores | 3dmark 06 score of 19,565 |
Very Impressed
Hey guys.
I have just pushed the absolute hell out of my card playing
Prey until I beat it.
I think that I have the genuine x850xt. The level of detail I recieved from my card is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It loves 1024x768 at MAXIMUM detail with 4x antialiasing.
No freeze ups, artifatcs, or anything!
I still stand by my belief that it was programed the x850 pro bios by mistake.
Keep in mind that I have the Single slot card with the crappy fan (still looking for my silencer!)
I have no reason to suffer 4 weeks of downtime by sending it in. I am still running 520/540 with 16 pipes and I am sure that I can clock it higher, but I have no need to as Prey, which is a totally tweeked out version of Quake 4 runs smooth as glass!!!
Here are a few things for you to think about.
I ran ATIflash before the boot cd to see if all quadrants were open and they were.
ATItool specifically said it was "open" so I ran the cd and flashed the x850xt bios, rebooted and Catalyst 6.11 and Windows IMMEDITALLY seen the card as the x850xt!!!
I have the ATI x850pro in an all Intel based computer and I ran ATIflash and it said the quadrant was "locked". I still flashed it with the x850xt bios and after reboot we got VERY strange color patterns and windows did NOT like it, as it was still seen as an "x850 series" card. So I flashed it back to what it was.
My Sapphire x850xt clearly kicks the ass of the ATI x850pro in shader detail and framerates and it even runs 15 degrees cooler.
My friends saw Need 4 Speed Carbon with the x850pro bios and then after I flashed it to the x850xt and they noticed the differience too!!!
Final thought.
If you can just flash the bios and get the x850xt that you ordered, as long as the card works fine why return it if it has no problems?
If the card dies within the 2 year warranty, just RMA the stupid thing.
I dont think that you can get caught with the wrong bios, if that bios is the one that it was supposed to come with out the box, and did not.
And if it dies after those 2 years, you got your $139.99 + $5.49 out of the Damn thing!!!!!
Hey guys.
I have just pushed the absolute hell out of my card playing
Prey until I beat it.
I think that I have the genuine x850xt. The level of detail I recieved from my card is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It loves 1024x768 at MAXIMUM detail with 4x antialiasing.
No freeze ups, artifatcs, or anything!
I still stand by my belief that it was programed the x850 pro bios by mistake.
Keep in mind that I have the Single slot card with the crappy fan (still looking for my silencer!)
I have no reason to suffer 4 weeks of downtime by sending it in. I am still running 520/540 with 16 pipes and I am sure that I can clock it higher, but I have no need to as Prey, which is a totally tweeked out version of Quake 4 runs smooth as glass!!!
Here are a few things for you to think about.
I ran ATIflash before the boot cd to see if all quadrants were open and they were.
ATItool specifically said it was "open" so I ran the cd and flashed the x850xt bios, rebooted and Catalyst 6.11 and Windows IMMEDITALLY seen the card as the x850xt!!!
I have the ATI x850pro in an all Intel based computer and I ran ATIflash and it said the quadrant was "locked". I still flashed it with the x850xt bios and after reboot we got VERY strange color patterns and windows did NOT like it, as it was still seen as an "x850 series" card. So I flashed it back to what it was.
My Sapphire x850xt clearly kicks the ass of the ATI x850pro in shader detail and framerates and it even runs 15 degrees cooler.
My friends saw Need 4 Speed Carbon with the x850pro bios and then after I flashed it to the x850xt and they noticed the differience too!!!
Final thought.
If you can just flash the bios and get the x850xt that you ordered, as long as the card works fine why return it if it has no problems?
If the card dies within the 2 year warranty, just RMA the stupid thing.
I dont think that you can get caught with the wrong bios, if that bios is the one that it was supposed to come with out the box, and did not.
And if it dies after those 2 years, you got your $139.99 + $5.49 out of the Damn thing!!!!!