First I want to complain about my new HD4850x2 build quality.
It's mostly about PCBit is either too thin or too soft, so the video card bends on its own weightwhen it's on place in the slot!
Well OK the PCI-E slot is standard wide os it it does not allow placing any cards thicker than standard thickness.
Maybe they could build the card based on stiff PCB or mount some support, as the GF 9800GX2 is whole in a plastic box.
The aluminum heatsink is hevy after all, they could think about it.
When the DVI jacks were soldered and cool down, some tension appeared and bend the PCB so the metal plate with DVI jacks isn't perpendicular to the PCB, it's 70 - 75 deg instead of 90! Which makes the mounting difficult, if I hadn't noticed that I could even damage the card of the motherboard, 'cause the metal pate don't match the cases's grooves. I had to counterbend the PCB in order fit the plate in place.
And because the the card looks very ugly bended that way I had to support it by a long screw from the bottom of the case. (luckely there was a threaded orifice in a perfect place so screw it there
Otherwise the video card works fine!
And finally I want to ask a question. How can I check which game uses the CrossFire and which one doesn't?
It's not convenient to me to look in game's scpecs. It would be good if the catalist of some software like everest could show that. I mean I start the game minimise it and open a program which shows if the cross fire is active. I imagine it like that (maybe I want too much!)
(And sorry about my english, sometimes I say somethings I don't mean )
Yeah right click the ATI Tray Icon and go under Crossfire options, then select show crossfire icon.
THat way every time crossfire is active in a game you will see a transparent ATI Crossfire logo in the top right corner of the screen.
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