im having the crash too with a 4870 X2, and i have the new 8.11 Drivers installed, same thing happens on both Vista64 and Vista32...it sux really, my only solution is to hit F5 (Quick Save) every now and then...
a stock 4870 crossfired with a stock 4850, would give you a performance boost thats worth the money, ive tried it with the 8.10 drivers and it gives a boost from an average of 50fps to an average of about 68 almost 70fps in Crysis. Now in my opinion, thats worth it, note that the cards do have...
Would testing Crossfire with different architectures ruin any of the cards or the motherboard? for example, trying to Crossfire a 4800 series with a 3800 series, or Crossfire-ing the 3000 and 4000 series "X2" cards...Some people claim to have successfully Crossfired a HD 4870 X2 with a HD 2600...
So your saying that 2 FX-74's would bottleneck a 4870X2? and a Q6800 (which performs almost the same as the FX-74's) wouldnt? this debate is about the graphics card, not on the CPU... Oh and i think it does make a difference, a Q6800 doesnt perform like the QX6800 does, otherwise they would sell...
sorry, i meant the X6800 and QX6800
here are benchmarks from HardOCP http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIzMyw4LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
Also, these are tested with ONE FX-74 i think according to the Test Setup http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIzMyw0LCwxNDA=
And i...
Sorry, i meant the QX6700 and the X6800, here are benchmarks from HardOCP
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIzMyw4LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
Oh and BTW, these tests used only ONE Athlon FX-74, i have 2 that are hyperconnected, im getting almost double the performance. Also, my favorite...
haha, yeah, and then u show them whos boss in Crysis :p
*btw, how do i delete posts, i somehow posted ^that^ 3 times thanx to firefox 3.1 alpha...:confused: