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Recent content by TheJakeyl88

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    what's the difference between these two cards?

    All reference cards have the exact same enclosure and fan as the original ATI design. The fan is a blower that blows air through the heatsink and is situated at the end of the card, whereas the non-reference ones have a fan in the middle of the card that sits on top of the heatsink and cools it...
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    Graphics Card Dillema

    I run that resolution with a single 5850 OC'd a little past 5870 clocks and I can run all my games, 2xaa, 16xAF, high quality textures and all settings in game to high or ultra if available and v-sync, with no hiccups. Get the 5850, if it is a reference card, you can up voltage and OC very...
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    Surprise, my HD5850 threw a stripe-screen-of-death. Was there ever a solution?

    Are the stripes purple in color by any chance?
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    One card in SLI setup overheating - Airflow problem??

    This happens to every single person, so what is the issue here? Your Fermi cards are well within range and were made to operate at 100c with no issues at all, your setup is fine and operating as it should be.
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    XFX 5770 Problems!!!

    They send it signature required because SO MANY LOSERS ruin it for everyone and claim they never got it, and there is no way to prove it so UPS or FED EX has to pay for these thieves. So to everyone who has to have a signature even though there are plenty of good places to put the package for a...
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    BFG Completely Liquidating, no more RMAs accepted. Project Manager blames Fermi

    This was obviously a well orchestrated sell off with talent probably being absorbed elsewhere. Check into what the results will be and where the money will go, instead of customers, RMA's ect. If they were given Fermi, they may have immediately bankrupted themselves and gone under after...
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    Thinking about jumping ship.

    That is too bad, that two cards have the same exact issue especially in the same exact manner and time. Do you overclock at all? Intermittent artifacts and freezing like that, especially if you get the card to work again usually points to something causing it other than hardware failure. I've...
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    ATI Drivers really that bad?

    I've never had issues with ATI drivers, and I've had a Rage Pro, 9700pro, x850xt, x1950, CF 3870s, and now a 5850. At one point I had a Geforce 2, Geforce 3 and a Geforce 4 Ti, then went back to ATI. I had stuttering issues with the Geforce 3 and 4 then the fx series came out and I didn't like...
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    Larger heatsink for an HD5850?

    Hey there, those Accelero ones only cool the gpu, but they do come with little heatsinks that go on the memory and probably VRM but I'm not totally sure. I do know that they direct the flow of the GPU fan over the little heatsinks but people say those things are rather useless and most just...
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    5850 Fan dilema, need stock fan!

    Hi everyone, thanks for the replies. The fan I have is a small fan, it sits at the end of the card like all reference fans. I have all the screws and everything I need, I just need the fan to replace this one. I kind of got it working, although it kept making clunking noises and I could hear...
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    5850 Fan dilema, need stock fan!

    Hi everyone, I have a reference XFX 5850. The bearing went in the fan and XFX wants me to RMA the entire thing, of course to just send me a non-reference 5850. They won't replace the fan. So I've been looking around for anyone that might have gone aftermarket or watercooling that could...
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