Cat 8.10 are here

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Thanks Jay, I'm waiting for the UPS guy right now with my 4870x2, I'll go ahead and download these now.

Ive noticed the same thing with Nvidia drivers. For example, beta would be 182.94 while the live version of it would be 181.42. Ive made those numbers up but you get the point, I think the beta drivers with the PhysX crap in them were the ones numbered like that.

Downloaded and installed them. They seem to be working great. The manual fan speed control option is a very welcome feature in my book.

Best,

3Ball

I hear the minimum fps are a little better in some games, makes for a smoother experience, as they dont drop off and jump back up

Sweet, the fan control that should have been there in the first place. At least they got around to it finally.

no no not in my secondary, when I put it in my primary my primary runs @ 3.6, I tested both cards @ 1920x1200, 1 280 GTX came out AVG slower, but min higher, and in some cases only 1 or 2 frames lower than the X2.

Since the X2 is usually faster than a 280 in many games, it requires more from your cpu. It being a X2 , it requires even more. What youre seeing in your primary is normal. Increase your oc, and youll see maybe little or no minimum fps increases with the 280, but youd see more with the X2. Its a cpu slowdown is all. Thats providing the game scales well in SLI of course

yup crysis can be maxed out with the 4870 X with out stuttering for me 2. I still have drop downs compared to the 280 though, which is anoying, but on average it is about 25-30% faster than my 1 of my 280s, COD4 pushes that to almost 40% more, and grid the same.

The new driver is very neat.

I heard though that AMD's increases in perfromance aren't as high as Nvidias there was a review I saw not long ago, I can't remember from where I'll google it and see if I can find it again.

Any opinions?

Don't put too emotion on the subject, factually speaking.

We all know 280 GTX tri > 4870 X2 Quad > 280 GTX sli > 4870 X2 > 280 GTX etc....

I just want to kno if the review was true about the performance gains, I think it was THG that said it actually:S

personally I kno that 4870 X2 quads won't beat the 280s tri sli since its harder to optimize for and it just doesn't fit in with the math, but it will give Nvidia some running for its money.

I just saw in store a 4870 X2 for 449.99$ which means you can quad fire for about 900$ where as the AVG price for 280s is still around 420$.

So even if tri sli beats the 4870 X2 it would cost alot more, which doesn't cover the cost/Performance ratio.

So it all depends

It still doesnt downclock? I havnt tested these, Im going on what Id heard. So its still running 750 on one card in 2D mode?

750 core on 1 card? No, mine has always downclocked to 500mhz.

I know that. There was a "dispute" in an above post over the card not downclocking to 500mhz when idle.

Spathotan has a 4870 and Maziar has a 4870x2 which is why you are on different pages. Currently the 4870x2 downclocks only one core in 2d mode and keeps the second core running full speed. In another thread JD assured Maziar that this was going to be fixed with the 8.10's but it is not, which is fine because the release notes don't claim to fix it. The release notes claim very little in fact. Does this clear things up?


Re. the 8.10's, I'm really skeptical of the performance increase claims. Tweaktown usually does a good job comparing each new driver so I look forward to seeing that. From my seat the sum of 8.10 is fan control which simplifies a problem that most have already solved. But we'll have the usual fanboys enthusiasts enjoying a nice pacebo performance boost.

No,one of the cards (on HD 4870) runs @ stock on 2d mode the other one downclocks,its the same like 8.9

Also today i set the fanspeed t0 %35 and played COD4 i suddenly heard that the fan is running alot faster i came to windows and saw that it was runing @ 70%,is it normal ?

Yeah the fan slows down when it cools the card
thanks for the help

Yes. I read it somewhere...fud maybe...fan control is only for the 4800s.

hmm, I've "downgraded" to 8.10WHWL form 8.9RC2 and have to say that there is a notches in the fps on STALKER clear sky. frames just dropping to 20s without a reason. Just keep staying still and fraps shows 48 then for a second it drops to 20, and it is very irritating while playing. The other games are ok. There is no difference in frame rates at all.
I'll probably revert to 8.9 RC2. Actually I'll upgrade to 8.9RC2 because the build is higher on betas: build 69566 on betas vs 69565 on WHQL.

Ahh ok. Well I tried Rivatuner for Ocing, but for some reason it wasnt stable, driver kept failing and recovering. That OC i have there in the CCC is stable and just fine for me.

You are wise grass hopper. And, thanks for the heads up, now I'm def. staying with RC2, they are a little unstable, but Stalker Clear Sky at 1920X1200 Ultra High + 4XAA, 16XAF is just so juicy and delcious right now.

Is that a new driver, or just an add on for our current drivers?

well what happens to the other games? Are their performance kept up to part with v8.10?