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I'll be waiting for others install and see how it works for them.

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Just installed works fine as far i've seen. COD 4, BF2, NFS-PS and 3dmark06 run fine. Can't overclock my cards as high mind. Maybe just me being a plebian.

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I have done some experimentation this afternoon and found that 8.2 gives me the best 3dmark06 score.

8.2 = 10584
8.3 = 10441
8.4 = 10130

The new suite 8.4 didn't install the CCC correctly and crashed on restart. So I'm back to 8.2 for at least another month. One step forward two steps back.

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jaydeejohn- I don't want to go off topic, but I see you post a lot in the GPU section and are very knowledgeable about them. My question is about the clock and ram frequencies. In the CCC I have two different clock freqs reported. In the requested clock settings it shows 870 clock and 1040 mem, under "current clock settings" it shows 300gpu and 950mem. In CCC when I hit "test custom clocks" the numbers come up to the requested numbers. Will you if you can explain these differences? Is this a stepdown thing like "cool and quiet"? Also aren't mem freqs listed as in my case the HD3870 as 1.65GHZ at stock or something like that. Is the clock freq for mem double pumped or something that to get the gigahertz number? I do have rivatuner pushing the GPU and CCC auto tune as well.

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Better 3dmark06 score and better game performance from 8.2 to 8.4 on my 3870x2. I approve.

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I'll give 8.4 a try when I get home. What gets me about 8.2 and 8.3 is that Morrowind's pixel shader water glitches, but the game runs fine when I turn shaders off. I don't play it that often, but it didn't happen under Vista with a 7600gs and always ran fine under XP with an X1650 Pro and older ATI cards.

I didn't notice any 3DMark score differences between 8.2 and 8.3, so I'll see how 8.4 goes. Everything else runs fine under Vista, but I would like to see better Crossfire support for LOTR Online (people tell me it has SLI issues too).


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