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hey all! i got few problems with my gigabyte 4870...

Core 2 Quad Q9300, 1333MHz, s775, 6MB
EP45-DS3R s775 C2Q 1600Mhz, Intel P45, DDR2 1200, 2xPCI-E
DDR2 800mhz 2x2GB OCZ Vista Upgrade Copper Mirrored XTC Heatspreader
HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 DX10.1 HDTV 2xDVI PCI-E
PC POWER&Cooling Silencer 750W
HD 500GB Samsung

well, when i'm booting my pc, the card are rebooting her self few times (the fan are 50-70% for few secs and 3 leds on) its happend few times and then the PC and still no singel on the monitor. after restart its doing the same, but then the pc starts to work.



one more problem its really bad fps with Crysis and really bad score via 3dmark.

the fps on crysis is 10-13, with full oc its 13-15 ov Vhigh, no AA at 1680X1050.

the max score i got on 3dmark is 11800+\-.....

really need help here guys... its my 3 4870... (first 2 by sapphire, and now gigabyte)...

WEll my guesses are.

Either card card isn't seated good.

You got a bad driver install.

Your PSU is dieing.

boot problem sounds like the card is not seated good like roadrunner 197069 said. try remove it and refit it gain
My 3dmark06 score is about 11000 with AMD X2 @3.0Ghz (which is bad)

P.S. I have HD3870 as well and my score on 3dmark is about the same with both cards

Either card card isn't seated good. = i tried in two difrend slots

You got a bad driver install. = i dont think that when you booting the pc, its driver issue

Your PSU is dieing = new one, from the pack... + i tried with one more else....

Well first off if its your third 4870 card by different manufactures I think you can safely remove the graphics card as being the problem. As for the Gigabyte card its an excellent card, running two of them here in crossfire and haven't had a single problem with the cards playing Crysis or Crysis Warhead. Which driver are you using? Hopefully your not using the driver supplied with the card. I'm using CAT8.9 here.

When you boot the computer the graphics fan speed starts at full then throttles back, this is normal for ATi cards. So don't worry about that.

Have you downloaded GPUZ to confirm your card is operating in X16 mode?

If GPUZ confirms the motherboard and graphics card are working in X16 mode then I would look at memory configurations and settings.

As far as 3dmark06 I haven't run it in years, not since my first crossfire setup using X1900 cards and discovering 3dmark06 would disable crossfire. I look at pure game performance instead of what 3dmark06 says its doing.

As for running Crysis in directX9 mode if your using vista, in games right click on Crysis and it will bring up a list and you will see PlayDX9, just click there to start the game.

so, here is the video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqzq7aZf4WA
btw, i got on COD4 fps 20-45.... its fine?

so, what we going to do? :\

well, i just tried Crysis on XP...
So, at High (No Vhigh option) 30-40fps.
with AA X2 30fps...

3Dmark:
Score: 12093
SM 2.0: 4766
SM 3.0: 5287
CPU: 3986

well, its runing under 16X?


edit:

didnt helped dude....

it can be that my card is "buged?"

this is realy strange. black screen in the middle of the test is not good at all, plus strange behaviour of the cardt when you switch on your PC = possible hardware failure
I don't have any side effects from my PowerColorHD4870, only poor performance; 3dmark06 ~10000, crysis 1680x1050 enthusiast settings ~ 15-20 fps.

i tried the same system with 8800, crysis works better 15-20FPS all Vhigh drx10, Cod4 runs at 65+, when my VGA runs it only 20-40, some places 11-15....

hmmm. how?

Have you resolve your problem.
Recreantly I have got same problem.
Great drop of fps from 250 to 60 in cod4.
Any solutions!!?
What's wrong!