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I know this topic has been beaten to death already, but please bear with me. I bought my card in May of this year, several months after the first reports of the GSOD/stripes surfaced. I was actually hoping AMD would address the issue in this time, but I guess not. Did you guys ever come to a...

Obvious difference is reference design versus the "new" fan design. From reports I've read, only the reference models can have their firmware flashed to allow a higher voltage and thus a MUCH higher overclock.

Let's be honest guys - ATI really dealt a low-blow by first raising the MSRP of the 5850/5870, then undercutting to $260 with the 5830. Of course nVidia had to price their 470/480 relative to the 5850/5870 (don't ask me why the prices aren't identical), but they basically positioned their cards...

I know what you mean. I've got a 2y/o 8800GTS 640MB that I just can't justify retiring. I think my biggest obstacle is the price of entry for a new high-end card though. The 5850s are still about $30-40 more than I'd like.

and, another bump!

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Here's what I've got for sale. PM me if you're interested. ALL PRICES NEGOTIABLE (WITHIN REASON) Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 (2.33GHz) - I can ship with or without the factory heatsink, your choice. Both have been cleaned out. The chip is good for 2.8GHz on the stock unit as far as I could tell...

I stand corrected then. :)

Unless something has changed in the last several months, Fortron/FSP used to be one of the reputable brands in the game. Also, Corsair sources their PSUs from Seasonic, which is why I consider them "equal". As far as PC Power & Cooling not making power supplies...

Good power supplies can be had for (relatively) cheap. Check out FSP Group - they make some of the best supplies out there, along with Corsair/Seasonic and PCP&C. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104953&cm_re=fsp_group_400w-_-17-104-953-_-Product $40 for 400W

Which do I get? At most I'll probably be pushing ~500W with the following setup: i7-920 @ 2.8-3.2GHz 3x2GB DDR3 Radeon 5850 I've read that PSUs are most efficient when total load is around 80%. That would mean I should get the TX650, right? But of course more is better and 750W would...

As would I...clearly I'm not the only one :o Oh...tempting. $300 shipped :eek:

Can't find one in stock at any of the major retailers (Egg, ZZF, Amazon, TD, etc.). What's going on?

I have a C2D E6550 (2.33GHz) and Asus P5K-Deluxe motherboard. PM if you're interested.

I have a Core 2 Duo E6550 (2.33GHz), ASUS P5K-Deluxe, and 4GB of OCZ Gold DDR2-800. PM if you're interested.

Shame about halving the ROPs...24 would have been a good middle ground IMO. Also surprised at the TDP.

No, you (and I, and many others) misread what he posted. He's saying that with the rumored specs (shaders, processors, etc.), all you need to do is bump the core to 816MHz to beat a 5850. Considering it's allegedly at 750 already, it's a measly 66MHz bump to beat the next-highest card.

Yeah it's all based on a leak from some European retailer's website. Edit - The 5830 is all but confirmed, but the specs are purely conjecture.

If this can debut for less than $250 I'm gonna buy it without hesitation.

I thought the rumored core speed was 750MHz?

Hm, interesting. Confirms suspicions that it's a slightly detuned 5850, in essence. 2/18 seems rather optimistic, though. I think it's silly that the MSRP for the 5850 used to be $259, but now pretty much everyone, including AMD, has accepted the new price point of $299. So, when the 5830 is...

You know, the one set at a $229 price point. The one that should essentially be a 4890 with DirectX 11 capability. Maybe a little more juice. The one that keeps getting delayed :mad: Any new word, or are we still looking at late Feb/early March?

If you guys still want in on a <$300 Sapphire Radeon, check this out. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5337607&CatId=3669 $310, but Bing has 12.8% cashback on Tigerdirect so it comes out to about $270.

I can get you started on the right track, but ultimately you'll have to make some changes based on your subjective needs. CPU - Intel Core i7 920 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202&cm_re=i7_920-_-19-115-202-_-Product Motherboard - Asus P6T Deluxe V2...

Just something to consider: the XFX card you picked out is overclocked by a relatively paltry 30MHz core and 125MHz memory. 5800 series cards are remarkably good at overclocking, so you could save about 10% by picking a standard-clocked model and doing the tiny bit of overclocking yourself...

+1 for the 4870 1GB, definitely the best part to run today's games at high quality. If you're looking for "future-proofing" (read: DirectX 11) look at the 5770.

5770 is the best of the $150-170 price point in my opinion. Might I suggest this version instead? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102864&cm_re=radeon_5770-_-14-102-864-_-Product I (and many others) have had excellent experiences with Sapphire. You also save about 10%...

If you keep waiting you'll never be happy. I just pulled the trigger on a Sapphire 5850. Came out to just over $261 after Bing cashback.

My guess is that AMD is continuing to have yield issues with its foundry, which means low supplies of 40nm chips for the near future. Just speculation on my part.

So for some reason I don't think my primary PCIe slot is working. The P5K Deluxe has 2 slots, but only the primary one is 16x. The other is only 4x. When my graphics card was in the first one the monitor wasn't receiving a signal. I tried the monitor and cable on other systems and they worked...

Thanks a lot guys. I just finished the correct SP1 install and everything's fine now. :)

So even if I uninstall the one I have and install the correct one, I won't be running the final version? Or are you referring to some way to just remove the words without removing the SP? Edit - Also, when the installation fail it said Vista was "reverting changes". Does that mean the SP is...

Let me preface this by saying I do own a legal retail copy of Vista. I tried installing SP1 today. It downloaded and got through 2/3 of the installation, then failed for some reason at the 3rd stage. When I logged into Vista, I noticed at the bottom-right corner it says: What's that about...

Alright another friend of mine recommended GetDataBack...it seems to be working. http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

Sounds to me like either they gave you the wrong one, or they discontinued your model and gave you its rough successor. I know Logitech does the latter, so maybe Seagate does as well.

You need to upload that picture somewhere...I can't exactly read it off your hard drive. ;) www.imageshack.us Interestingly enough, Disk Management "sees" the dynamic volume (labeled as Disk 1), but says it's offline. Testdisk doesn't even see it. And I don't have a floppy drive to try to work...

No dice...I ran testdisk.exe and it didn't detect my drive. In fact, it didn't even detect my functioning drives. The only ones it did detect were my optical drive and a USB flash drive I had plugged in. :o Edit - I think the problem is that my "lost" volume wasn't deleted or anything. It was...

Thanks a lot! I'll give this a try. Honestly, if it can recover anything I'll be happy. :)

Here's the long story: I bought a 500GB hard drive last month, and immediately partitioned it into 2 pieces. I had one 20GB partition, and the other ~445GB was another partition. The intent was to install Fedora on the 20GB partition so I could dual-boot Vista (on another hard drive) and...