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1998-- Matrox Millenium G200, replaced by original Diamond TNT for Quake 2/OpenGL games

Running a single 4870, the two biggest differences I've found for smoothness are DX10, and "ultra" quality on shadows. FPS seemed very similiar to DX9 with DX10, but on my comp, DX10 feels choppier-- without question. 8.11 drivers.

If I had to do it over again, I would go GTX 260 or 280 instead of a 4870, simply for stability. Doesn't matter how fast or cheap the card is if it has problems working correctly. And for optimal compatiblity with today's and tomorrow's games, I'd say Nvidia has an edge.

It's a very goofy problem, for sure, I've seen so many different solutions to it. On my new build, my solution has been fairly straightforward-- remove one of my 4870's. In COD4, my framerates remain high (my standard being 125 fps on a fairly constant basis), and I get no atikmdag errors now...

No love for me for CS 1.5.05 on my new build, Vista 64. Running Crossfired 4870's with Asus Top bios, 8.10 official on a pretty fresh build. I crash very quickly, display driver temporarily not working, CTD's, even got a memory dump once. The Stalker series has great gameplay, but the engines...

Well, tonight I'm going to try my hand at Rivatuner and see if it works as good as it did for Nvidia for me, keep the clocks the same at all times, and make sure that fan speed is locked as well (probably at 45 for a gaming profile). I think I might roll back to 8.7 as well, I think those were...

GPU-Z is well known for showing screwy results with newer drivers, not surprised by Rivatuner not being compatible with it yet either. The thing that gets me is that on a completely fresh install, the 8.9's atikmdag on me in COD4 at least once every two minutes, even though I'm not...

Original poster indicated what problems he had, as well as the steps he took to try to correct them, and how he's had no joy with the card (yet). Pretty typical of what's happening with quite a few people, so the post is a bit redundant, however, he's peeved and beefing about his card. Can you...

I think it was more of a "buyer beware" message, and I've certainly seen more immature and less constructive posts out there than this one. There's plenty of reviews out there talking about the 4870X2 as "the world's fastest consumer graphics card", so it seems to me some balance is in order...

Admittedly, both red and green are worse under Vista than XP, but i will say this-- ATI's 8.7's and 8.8 have bailed on me whenever I do even a slight overclock on 1 or 2 4870's (flashed with Asus "Top Bios"), and seem to like to quit for no good reason in general at times. Therefore, I am...

Might be a crossfire/driver issue, and tbh I didn't play around with it too much. I went down to 1440 x 1050, btw, not 1280 x 1024, sorry about that, tried to keep high settings without AA/AF. I liked the original game a lot (great gameplay), but it had a very buggy engine, especially when...

Well this is all well and good, but S:CS was a slideshow on my old rig when I tried it a couple days ago, Q6600 w/ 4gb RAM with crossfired 4870's. And I mean, a slideshow, less than 10 frames per second at many points. Turned resolution down to 1280 x 1024, still a slideshow. Lighting is...

I think that many people here need a strong dose of reality. This guy's complaints are well-founded. In the past, top of the line video cards could be passively cooled, but not anymore. Nvidia and ATI have to bite the bullet and put better cooling on cards, even if they cost a tad more...

Well at 825 and up on my 4870, I got wonderful driver crashes and freezes in COD4. Actually, same thing with the 9800GX2. Overclocking may be fun to tinker with, and work great for benchmarks, but may make very little difference in games.