How is your 5870 performing ?

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rogerwilco

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I was curious to know how well your 5870 is performing.Just sold my sapphire 5850 that i had no problems out of.Ran very smooth.Just purchased the XFX 5870 XXX Edition from newegg.They have a special tonight--399$ shipped which seem to be a worthwhile deal.

Can only hope i do not encounter alot of the problems i have read about on the net .Whether it be driver or design issues--just don't know.
 
I'm running a single 5870 with no issues at all.....it overclocks like mad and makes me smile every day...:)
 
I had problems with my xxx edition. I set it back to vanilla speeds, and it was ok. Sent it back for a refund. I have also had bad luck with a few gtx 285 FTW cards. They wouldnt hold factory oc speeds either without lockups. I try and stick to vanilla cards anymore, and oc myself.
 
I only purchased the xxx overclocked model because they have there 24 hour special going on at newegg.Hopefully it will work fine.I would have never spent the extra 40$ for a overclocked model--gzzz
 
I've been poundin on my HIS 5870 since around last October. Couldn't be more pleased.
 
I got my first XFX 5870 XXX card in the beginning of January and didn't have any issues with it. Added a 2nd card for Crossfire just recently and haven't had any issues with either. I've been extremely happy with these cards.
 
I've had 2 out of 4 cards fail so far, and I still like them. Seem to be some kinks to work out in the first run of this process, very fast, and in general not to many problems. Ati seems very quick about fixing driver issues.

The two cards I've had fail were an xfx that I exchanged, and a visiontek I'm waiting on word from them on. I still have a single xfx and diamond card working with no problems.
 
sweetreddyd said:
I've had 2 out of 4 cards fail so far, and I still like them. Seem to be some kinks to work out in the first run of this process, very fast, and in general not to many problems. Ati seems very quick about fixing driver issues.

The two cards I've had fail were an xfx that I exchanged, and a visiontek I'm waiting on word from them on. I still have a single xfx and diamond card working with no problems.
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MAN--thats some patience you have mixed with money also.
 
My 5870 had a strange conflict with my Auzen Forte sound card. Audio playback was choppy, faded in/out, randomly switched between 2.0/5.1. As soon as I tried my mobo's onboard audio all those problems were gone. I now use an Asus D2X and it works great. As for the 5870, it's easily the best card I've ever owned. I was in the Nvidia camp since 2004, but now play for the red team.
 
The 5870 is by far the best and most pleasurable graphics card I've ever used. I've never had any driver issues, idle temps 39-40c, load temps 65-67c, extremely extremely quiet, great stock heatsink, overclocks to 1000/1250 with a slight bump in voltage using MSI Afterburner...runs any game beautifully. I even think I'll keep it many months after nvidia's new chip comes out as I'm no longer excited about 'fermi'.
 
even my Sapphire one has been great !!! Mostly works as it should, had some wierd FPS drops at one stage but that came right.
 
havent had any problems with my card. (knock on wood) any issues were all driver related which seemto have tbeen fixed with the 10.2 drivers so far.
anyone that says the stock heatsink fan is quiet is freaking deaf. as soon as the card starts pumping out pixels it sounds like a damn jet engine. just use afterburner as a fan control and youll be fine.
 
rogerwilco said:
MAN--thats some patience you have mixed with money also.
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Yeah, I was pretty pissed when the second one went a couple days ago, the x58 from evga makes it impossible to remove the bottom card without taking all the others out first. Made troubleshooting the bottom card a big pain.

But really, the 5870s are just too damn fast for me to give up. Leaps and bounds ahead of the tri-sli 260s I had, and the drivers are getting better and better.
 
110% satisfied. Never had a card just plug in and work so well. Every Nvidia card I had before this gave me problems. I was skeptical at first since my first ATi card in 8 years (4870x2) had some driver issues, but this card has been flawless.

Knock on wood.
 
rogerwilco said:
I canceled my order on the xfx 5870 xxx model and ordered this one instead

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150476

Seems like this one has a better cooling solution.But no info on net yet about it.
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This updated xfx model looks like it has an identical PCB compared to the Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X REV.2 card. Thus it has the power connectors at the end of the card and should have an overall shorter length compared to the reference 5870`s.
 
I have the xfx 5870 as well, and I am none too happy with it. The latest driver update helped, now instead of crashing every couple of hours, the screen goes black for 20 seconds or so and the card resets. Although it will still crash hard on occasion too. I am running on a brand new Win 7 64 install.

If I underclock the card a bit all my crashing problems go away, but underclocking the card causes the screen to flicker so much that is impossible to stare at for very long without getting a headache.

Maybe I just got a bum card, but I can't go two weeks to swap it for another one.
 
I have bought about 7 5870's for work computers (3D modelers). The first one had a few grey screen issues. swaped out motherboard and updated drivers, i have not had issue since.

All otehr users have been happy with them as well.
 
Well I've been an nvidia guy for the past 6 years.. Going to a 5870 is sure an eye opening experience.. As much as I've complained about nvidia drivers, I gotta say ATI's drivers are like 29387182372187483247x worse! :eek: I'll never complain about an nvidia driver again!

I've had my 5870 for a month now... I've frozen and crashed a few times on fade transitions.. my screen has this weird flicker after every time I watch a video of some sort.. it goes away when i reboot.. my mouse dissappears and gets corrupted quite often for no reason.. when I get teh flicker and try to play a game i get horrible frame rates.. but then again a reboot usually fixes it.. I'm on Windows 7 and it's like I'm back to the Windows 98SE days lol

--mike
 
I have had good luck with my 5870. GTA4 looks awesome. 10.2 drivers are working good.
 
Running 2x XFX 5870s since December with no problems. Staying with 9.12HF since they're working great in Win 7 for the apps I use. No trouble switching in and out of Xfire, and running multiple displays.
 
Gaming performance is great. I have glitches in a few games, and I was annoyed by (apparently) a driver bug that required me to reboot every time I remote desktop connected to my Win7 x64 box - when I tried to log on locally after a RDP session the screen would either be black or garbled. With the latest WHQL that seems to have stopped. Overall very pleased with the hardware, not too impressed by drivers / game support.
 
My Saphire 5870 has been running flawlessly and I absolutely love it.
I might be getting back to work here soon and if that's the case I just might purchase another one to run in crossfire and add it into my water loop.

Now I just need a bigger desk and a few more monitors.....
 
It's cool to see the majority of people are happy with there 5870.My sapphire 5850 ran fantastic.Just waiting on my 5870 to get here now.

Tell me this.How high of an overclock can you get water cooling?Have considered taking that route for the first time.
 
I hate all of you :p

I'm looking at jumping to a 5870 hopefully after nvidia brings some competition and lowers prices a bit. Jumping up from an 8800GT :eek:

Anyone have good experiences running the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series games?
 
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Mine runs sweet. Upgraded from an 8800 GTX and the ASUS 5870 is running like a champ. Zero issues so far.
 
Sapphire Vapor-X 5870 GSOD's in all games when settings are turned up so I've been waiting for the newer supposed drivers that fix it. Not really gaming much at the moment so no reason to return it.
 
Off the bat my fist 5870 seemingly had a faulty tessellation unit causing any tessellation to display as artifact like corruption (heaven benchmark and stalker CoP benchmark) . RMA'd the first one and that cleared up the corruption. The only problem I'm presented with after that is Borderlands freezing for a short time, going to gray screen for a brief moment and then start responding again. So far that is the only title I own which seems to be giving me issues. The card runs the Unigine Heaven Benchmark, 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark06,05,2002 SE just fine and also the stalker call CoP benchmark with no issues. It's really hard to get the just of the card with drivers issues floating around and running it on such a new OS (windows 7). I suspect with time many driver improvements will be made along with greater driver optimizations. Until I play many more games with it and have almost a years use I can't give a concrete answer to the question, but what I know for sure is that using this card gives me that "oh so warm" feeling inside like when I was gaming many years ago with my 9700 Pro :) .
 
I am running a couple of XFX 5870 XXX cards in CF configuration. I loaded up Windows 7 x64 edition fresh with the install of the cards and I have had a few minor issues, but overall I have been very happy with the performance in the games I play. I have been playing Star Trek Online most often recently and it looks pretty good with all the eye candy enabled. I actually bought two for my 30" monitor but so far I have been too lazy to move it from my living room where it is connected to my 1080p plasma. Probably overkill...

I have not had any graphics anomalies so far, but it may be that I have been fortunate. I keep a pretty clean system as far as apps installed and that kind of stuff.
 
Had mine since the first week of the launch in september, was a saphire, the bios limited the overclocking so I flashed the bios to asus allowing me to higher settings, put a water block on it, idle is about 28 deg. and load is 35-38 deg. (OCED) and the vrm about 45 deg. under load.
As far as over clocking goes we all know you are going to get varying results, each card has unique limitations, the largest gains I had were from overclocking of the core, memmory over clocking gave a hardly noticeable performance gain, threshold for me seemed to be 1000 on the core and 1200 on the memmory before artifacts came up.
Heat was not an issue for me, it seemed to be hitting a ceiling of a different type, I guess it is just the limitations of my particular card.

I noticed running DX11 such as Stalker or Dirt really put it on it's knees running at 1920x1200 on a 25.5 monitor with all the eye candy enabled....I might be buying another one or selling this one and buyinhg a 5970....been lucky I guess though, I have not ran into any of this issues others have been reporting.
 
I'm loving my Asus 5870. It's from the initial launch batch, and it's a supreme overclocker. I've been able to get a 20% increase on the core, which means that it eats any game I throw at it with the highest settings at 1920*1200. Stalker Call of Pripyat with DX11 runs and looks great, especially for an engine that has had two different DX versions tacked on.
 
xnorthx said:
I hate all of you :p

I'm looking at jumping to a 5870 hopefully after nvidia brings some competition and lowers prices a bit. Jumping up from an 8800GT :eek:

Anyone have good experiences running the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series games?
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Depends on the resolution, 1680x1050 IDK, but if youre thinking about maxing it out at higher resolutions you are going to be disappointed, all eye candy, all DX11 enabled your going to be bouncing from 8-50 fps, x-ray engine though dated has DX11 features, the game still looks awesome with toned down settings though.
I have to add for such a dated engine, 2005 I think?, IMHO it is second to only Crysis by a small margin with tweaking, though it is a tempramental bastard at times....the Eastblock did a pretty good job with this one, and this third edition is a much more complete game, again IMO.
 
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