Asus 4850 issues....

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sagiquarius

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I dunno about the rest of you, but I've had some rather annoying issues with this card since I got it. Fan issue aside, the drivers are just goofy and cause odd things to happen on my machine like dumping of color profiles when the monitor is turned off or goes to sleep (never happened on any of my nvidia cards) and the performance increase isn't that great over my current 8800 gts 320. It is certainly a bit better, just not enough to make it worth the time and and hassle I had to go thru to get it working. I tried to like the card, gave it a chance, but I decided to go back to my old card for now and sell my 4850 (haven't sold it yet so PM if interested). Now the fan thing is easily fixed with rivatuner or CCC profiles or by using brets custom bios, which I think works pretty damn well. Overclocks nice and that is when it shows a greater improvement but not enough, like I said. I'm prolly going to go with a 9800gtx+ when I sell my 4850 or just wait a bit to see what comes next. The 9800gtx+ is about the only other nvidia offering that I think it is a worthwhile upgrade from my 8800 gts 320 unless some one knows something I don't.
 
actually the 9800GTX+ doesn't make much sense to me unless you can get it really cheap. with the GTX260 in the 230 range (look for the specials or with cash back) there is little reason to get a 9800GTX+ unless you get one hell of a deal. After all the problems I have had recently with Nvidia cards I should warn you that problem free does not apply to green or red. Your problems sounds more like a driver issue,did you run a driver cleaner before you installed the 4850? It sounds like you may not have completely removed the old driver.
 
Valset said:
actually the 9800GTX+ doesn't make much sense to me unless you can get it really cheap. with the GTX260 in the 230 range (look for the specials or with cash back) there is little reason to get a 9800GTX+ unless you get one hell of a deal. After all the problems I have had recently with Nvidia cards I should warn you that problem free does not apply to green or red. Your problems sounds more like a driver issue,did you run a driver cleaner before you installed the 4850? It sounds like you may not have completely removed the old driver.
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I'm positive that it isn't a driver conflict (though I agree it is a driver issue) as I always do the factory uninstall first, then do the driver sweeper in safe mode. I do that whenever I change video drivers, period. I agree about the GX260, w/ the rebate and reduced price, it does seem like a more worthy upgrade than the 9800gtx+. I also have an m2n-sli deluxe board with nforce 570, FYI. Another thing I noticed in the 3DM06 tests (but not in games that I saw) was a jitter every few seconds whereas the nvidia card is completely smooth. I'm thinking the gtx260, given it's current price is prolly the best card I'm gonna be able to get without getting a new PSU and using SLI.

I'm curious, what sort of issues did you have with what card(s) and which driver set?
 
I dont know if this is disproven or not but I put my 4850 on a Nvidia chipset when I first got it (750i) my computer took a fit and crashed all the time, even after a format. Since its been on p45 and AMD 770 and its been fine....
 
qwksi1 said:
I dont know if this is disproven or not but I put my 4850 on a Nvidia chipset when I first got it (750i) my computer took a fit and crashed all the time, even after a format. Since its been on p45 and AMD 770 and its been fine....
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Yes, I was suspecting that myself as well and certainly seems to be the case for me although I can get the card to work fine, it just exhibits odd behavior that the nvidia cards never did.
 
sagiquarius said:
I'm positive that it isn't a driver conflict (though I agree it is a driver issue) as I always do the factory uninstall first, then do the driver sweeper in safe mode. I do that whenever I change video drivers, period. I agree about the GX260, w/ the rebate and reduced price, it does seem like a more worthy upgrade than the 9800gtx+. I also have an m2n-sli deluxe board with nforce 570, FYI. Another thing I noticed in the 3DM06 tests (but not in games that I saw) was a jitter every few seconds whereas the nvidia card is completely smooth. I'm thinking the gtx260, given it's current price is prolly the best card I'm gonna be able to get without getting a new PSU and using SLI.

I'm curious, what sort of issues did you have with what card(s) and which driver set?
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actually I need to update my sig, I have a GTX280. Had a hell of a problem, Nvidia has some bugs with flat panel displays and esp HDMI monitor, they think they are tv only and will not display correctly (will not use a 16:10 ratio) for love or money. it is necessary to edit the registry. and I came from a 8800GTX that worked perfectly.

none of the current generation is without issues, I would double check your system, Dan had a hell of a problem with his 4870X2 that end up being a conflict with his on board sound card. my GTX280 didn't like my monitor. It still sounds like you have a conflict somewhere.
 
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