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Pinkster0011   11-16-2009 at 01:41:04 AM

I just bought a new Asus Ati radeon 5870 and now i'm crashing 2-5 minutes into any game i throw at it. I get a lot of pixeling followed by a loss of signal output and then following the crash. Tried every possible driver combination out there. My PSU is a Corsair 750W so i don't think that power should be an issue.

The only temporary solution i was able to find so far is to reduce the memory/clock speeds which seems to keep the card stable and allowed me couple hours of steady gameplay.

Any idea if this is a hardware issue or is it still the immature drivers?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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skolpo   11-16-2009 at 02:01:24 AM

How are your temperatures? Sounds like a faulty card to me (pixelation).

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Pinkster0011   11-16-2009 at 02:58:48 AM

skolpo wrote :

How are your temperatures? Sounds like a faulty card to me (pixelation).



I'm running around 40C idle and 65-75 on full load.

Just finished a 3 hour Dragon Orgin's session on full details with no crashes.
Had the clock turned down to 700mhz from 800mhz and memory down to 4500 from 4800.
No pixlation, no slowdowns.

Reset the speeds to default under asus smart doctor and got a crash within 5 minutes of gameplay.
Very weird.


Message edited by Pinkster0011 on 11-16-2009 at 03:42:20 AM
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sincreator   11-16-2009 at 04:41:08 AM

I just got a Sapphire 5870 last week and I'm having similar issues, but I'm pretty sure they are driver related. In my case I just get the driver has stopped working and had to be recovered issue. No pixelation though, even with my clocks at 900mhz core and 1250mhz memory. So it could be a faulty card in your case. There has only been one driver released yet, so I'm thinking alot of these bugs could be worked out with next weeks catalyst 9.11 driver. I would wait till then atleast before returning the card just in case. You don't really want to have to try to get another one unless your 100% sure the card is defective. It would almost be impossible at this point, with the demand as high as what it is.

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