Rest in Peace

Fanned her ever since first movie I saw her (Drive 1997, cool flick )
I mean, she was gorgeous, why go and have the surgeries?

I have heard this as well. This is why some reviews have bad reviews of 5750's at idle, so the rumor goes. Considering the massive, useless cost of having 3 screens both A) in possession and B) on burning a couple of hundred watts, I dont think anyone cares about the 10 watts excess of idle from th...

Really tempted to buy F3 1TB. Afterall it offers near Velociraptor performance in most tests!

Samsung drives have ok idle and seek noises for my taste, but idle vibrations are driving me nuts. No room to suspend in my case.

Is it true that GPU won't be in low-power mode in idle when more than one display is connected?

Zalman vf2000 is silverish black. Its big enough to work passively, remove the fan altogether

Me too, me too! So far I'm happy with the 4770 but I'm looking at 5770 for my next upgrade - when prices get a little friendlier, that is. And also would like to use my already hacked S1 with the new card. If you could also measure the position of the GPU and mounting holes that would be v helpful,...

Press Pause button during bios boot-up screen, then it is (resonably) safe to pull out power plug from HDD. You will be able to hear the difference right away

Oh, and I was eager to use included VRM radiators, but found out that even after hours of gaming VRM chips get barely warm. There is some airflow over them from L2 in my case
So I skipped those. Memory radiators on other hand get quite hot

5770 has 4-pin PWM header and so does L2 It defaults to 35%, roughly 1300rpm The most I 've seen it spin up was 41% at 55C. At load with overclock. Not obtrusive at all, easily quieter than stock cooling at idle. Didn't try to limit it yet. But far spaced fins tell me it should work with slowed down...

leifeinar wrote:I did this mod, , but it looks like shit

Ugh!

On a brighter note, Accelero L2 fit perfectly and works great.

wanky wrote:does accelero s1 fit 5770 ? i wub my accelero used it on so many cards dont want to part with it yet

No, the gpu is too close to PCI bracket so S1 won't fit without heavy modding.
But go for 5850 instead. I would.

Can anyone else put their opinion of the stock cooler of the 5770? until now it seems to be good enoght for a quiet PC thanks a lot... OK, first impressions On idle its almost silent. Default 35% fan about 1300rpm and you can hear it, barely, over other slow fans. On 20% and 900 rpm - perfect. On l...

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I'm on Arch and 64bit, and ATI drivers don't give me any trouble.
I run some 32bit apps like Wine.

The fact that ATI drivers are not perfect or do not even comply to standarts is pointed out that catalyst is maintained only in user repository, not official one.

Windows 7 improved on Vista and XP... Well it just proves that MS products are generally crap to begin with. That said, I use Win7 for gaming now. Yippie, it handles video card driver crashes silently with just a short black screen and resumes gameplay. But hey, such crashes occur 4 times more often...

~El~Jefe~ wrote:Does xfx warranty cover people who use aftermarket cooling?

From what I heard, yes.
And after yesterday I think I will need an aftermarket cooler. S1 doesn't fit I think, same problem as with 4770.
Anything out there that exhausts air out of case?

psiu wrote:I play older games and get the newer ones when they are old and down to $20-30.

I'm sorry, this just reminded me of http://xkcd.com/606/
The cake is a lie

Let me add to all FUD rampagin in this thread: ATI cards have better image quality!

ATI closed drivers are quite ok. Necessary to have full 3d support and power management features atm.
They do lack some major features (I can't get fast composition to work or video acceleration), but all-in-all its quite good.

OK, first impressions On idle its almost silent. Default 35% fan about 1300rpm and you can hear it, barely, over other slow fans. On 20% and 900 rpm - perfect. On load fan ramps up fast to keep temps under 70. At 50% starts to disturb even in headphones Lowered fan manually but experienced some cras...

glad to hear that. Received my XFX 5770 today. Lets hope its not much tradeoff compared to fanless S1

Leaked AMD presentation ( here ) has all info on specs of new midrange cards coming out oct. 13th 5770: 800SP 850MHz core, 1200MHz 128 bit memory (4800GDDR5) idle power: 18w load power 108w 5750: 720SP 700 MHz core, 1150MHz 128 bit memory (4600GDDR5) idle power: 16w load power 86w basically half of ...

yes, but it didnt support new videocards until update came out last week

Could be its distributing that updated version of 9.9 catalyst, with support for 58xx cards

Some info about midrange 5750 google translate one 6-pin power connector, 1150 (4600) gddr5, 1120 stream processors. sounds bandwidth limited small pcb rocks, definitelly getting one when it comes out Edit: cooler mounting holes seem to be close to PciE bracket like on 4770. My Accelero S1 could los...

Even though it will hurt sales of 48xx and 4770, AMD promises to release next midrange cars in October along with 5870X2

first shots of PCB without cooler
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The Radeon HD 5870 1GB should sell for $399 at launch, while Radeon HD 5870 2GB should sell for $449. At the same time, the slower Radeon HD 5850 with 1GB memory will sell for $299. The launch date for all three cards is September 23rd in Europe whereas in the US we are talking about the 22nd. Fudz...

I was following information on AMDs new RV870 videocards. Today the information is unveiled, hopefully some tests also. I will open with the expected specs HD5870 825MHz core 1.3 GHz (5.2 GHz) 1 or 2 GB GDDR5 memory 1600 SP 80 TMU 32 ROP 2.1 G transistors 330 mm2 chip size Expected power consumption...

Cause? Cause is that all modern videocards consume way too much power
Sometimes you get lucky with a silent one. Mostly you don't

New ATI cards coming this month. I'm waiting for new midrange model. At 40 nm and solid performance it should be quite efficient.

If all works, its safe to remove all directories beginning with $
Also I believe that SP3 installation file is hidden somewhere in /Windows
delete that one also.