I'll start by saying thanks to everyone giving feedback. THW forums are the best and I try to contribute whenever my knowledge lets me.
So I upgraded to a 4850 because of all of the positive reviews. I've had nothing but issues with mine.
First: With dual monitors my second monitor now flickers all the time. Monitor is fine (switched cards and flicker is gone) and I've traced it back to my 4850 in that when my gpu goes from 500mhz idle to 625 (even when oc'd to 700) the screen tears and flickers. This is extremely annoying when trying to read text. This happens about once every 30 seconds as windows occasionally needs some gpu to render Aero and thus my gpu goes from its idle state to a working state. I have searched the forums and have found other people experiencing the same. If anyone knows of a fix for this I would greatly appreciate any help.
Second: and this one I hope you guys can help me with. When using ccc to overclcock my card to 700/1095 I can only run ccc 8.6 drivers. CCC drivers 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 all result in windows properly starting up and then soon monitors only displaying black and white vertically lines down the screen. My presumption is that again when the gpu goes from its 500mhz idle state to a working state the card freezes?! But I don't know.
The card is on water and all of the ram have their own copper heat sink. All of the vrms have their own heat sinks as well. My gpu using ccc 8.6 never gets about 50c after playing any game for a few hours. So again, the issue is that I can only oc with ccc using 8.6 drivers. All other drivers freeze system requiring a hard boot.
I've tried rivatuner and atitool, but neither seem to work well with vista 64--at least they didn't for me.
Also, a lot of my games aren't getting better fps than what I got with my 8800gt and some lag more on occasion: cod4, crysis, fallout, mercenaries, kayne and lynch, the club, ect.. I'm guessing its because 8.6 doesn't properly recognize all the features of the 4000 series, but I'm not sure.
Here are my specs:
x3210 oc'd to 3ghz on water (375fsb)
abit ip35-e (bios updated)
4gb Patriot Ram 4-4-4-12, 750mhz (pc6400 but under clocked cuz of oc)
vista ultimate 64 bit
barracuda 320gb
hd4850 oc'd to 700/1095 on separate water system (ccc 8.6 drivers)
So I upgraded to a 4850 because of all of the positive reviews. I've had nothing but issues with mine.
First: With dual monitors my second monitor now flickers all the time. Monitor is fine (switched cards and flicker is gone) and I've traced it back to my 4850 in that when my gpu goes from 500mhz idle to 625 (even when oc'd to 700) the screen tears and flickers. This is extremely annoying when trying to read text. This happens about once every 30 seconds as windows occasionally needs some gpu to render Aero and thus my gpu goes from its idle state to a working state. I have searched the forums and have found other people experiencing the same. If anyone knows of a fix for this I would greatly appreciate any help.
Second: and this one I hope you guys can help me with. When using ccc to overclcock my card to 700/1095 I can only run ccc 8.6 drivers. CCC drivers 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 all result in windows properly starting up and then soon monitors only displaying black and white vertically lines down the screen. My presumption is that again when the gpu goes from its 500mhz idle state to a working state the card freezes?! But I don't know.
The card is on water and all of the ram have their own copper heat sink. All of the vrms have their own heat sinks as well. My gpu using ccc 8.6 never gets about 50c after playing any game for a few hours. So again, the issue is that I can only oc with ccc using 8.6 drivers. All other drivers freeze system requiring a hard boot.
I've tried rivatuner and atitool, but neither seem to work well with vista 64--at least they didn't for me.
Also, a lot of my games aren't getting better fps than what I got with my 8800gt and some lag more on occasion: cod4, crysis, fallout, mercenaries, kayne and lynch, the club, ect.. I'm guessing its because 8.6 doesn't properly recognize all the features of the 4000 series, but I'm not sure.
Here are my specs:
x3210 oc'd to 3ghz on water (375fsb)
abit ip35-e (bios updated)
4gb Patriot Ram 4-4-4-12, 750mhz (pc6400 but under clocked cuz of oc)
vista ultimate 64 bit
barracuda 320gb
hd4850 oc'd to 700/1095 on separate water system (ccc 8.6 drivers)