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To pre-empt questions about what cards can be CrossFired together, read the charts here : Latest Card Models : Older Card Models : CrossFire Bridges: Since the introduction of the HD2xxx series cards, this is how many CrossFire Bridges you need to achieve a CrossFire enabled setup:

To pre-empt questions about what cards can be CrossFired together, read the charts here : Latest Card Models : Older Card Models : CrossFire Bridges: Since the introduction of the HD2xxx series cards, this is how many CrossFire Bridges you need to achieve a CrossFire enabled setup:

Since problems dealing with multi-card CrossFire setups are nothing more than a fad in the past, the wonderful people at AMD has given us a new way to create more pain and suffering to our gaming psyche. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Eyefinity!! OK, all jokes aside, I'm pretty sure that...

Since problems dealing with multi-card CrossFire setups are nothing more than a fad in the past, the wonderful people at AMD has given us a new way to create more pain and suffering to our gaming psyche. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Eyefinity!! OK, all jokes aside, I'm pretty sure that...

Welcome to the Hardware Section, the heart and soul of the Sapphire Technology Forums! This section is a place where you can talk about various Sapphire Technology products within their own specific sections. On top of posting new information about a certain product, this is a good section to use...

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Heya,.. For those of you who like reading STICKY threads to gather information, here's some info about what the HD4xxx cards use from the 12v rail :- Wattage and Current Draw -- Idle / Load Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 -- 10W / 70W .. 0.8A / 5.8A Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 -- 40W / 120W...

Heya,.. For those of you who like reading STICKY threads to gather information, here's some info about what the HD4xxx cards use from the 12v rail :- Wattage and Current Draw -- Idle / Load Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 -- 10W / 70W .. 0.8A / 5.8A Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 -- 40W / 120W...

Heya,.. For those of you who like reading STICKY threads to gather information, here's some info about what the HD4xxx cards use from the 12v rail :- Wattage and Current Draw -- Idle / Load Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 -- 10W / 70W .. 0.8A / 5.8A Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 -- 40W / 120W...

Handy to know so we can check the OEM of your PSU to see if it's suitable or not for your particular VGA card ! ;) http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDArticles&op=Story&ndar_id=24 UL Database for checking OEMs ... http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/1FRAME/index.htm

Heya,.. If you are experiencing any issues with your HD5xxx series card, then contact the techs @ Sapphire via the email address starting with "tech" from the main troubleshooting STICKY thread and they'll advise you on how to proceed. They are working on the issues and have updated BIOSes for...

I too was naive and bought this x1950 Pro without doing the proper research and reading the box. "450watt power supply or greater, 30 Amps on 12 volt rail" I was also having problems with overheating and artifacting. After coming here doing some research and getting some advice from GG, I...

Go to RegEdit ( backup your registry if you think you'll mess it up .. I take no responsibility for anything you do to your own machines ! ). Find all instances of following values :- FanSpeedPercentActual_NA FanSpeedPercentTarget_NA FanSpeedRPMActual_NA FanSpeedRPMTarget_NA .. and change...

This thread is a straight copy of the thread in the General Section with added useful info about the importance of the PSU in modern systems. Here are some good articles about the subject: Extreme Tech; Firing Squad; Extreme Overclocking Bleeding Edge. Read up! ...

Heya,.. When lit, the diagnostic LEDs for the following cards have the following meaning :- HD4850 LEDs D1601 - Over temp protection enabled D1602 - EXT 12V fault

Available here :- http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx GG PD: New link added, changed on April 2009...

Just to let you know, that after this month's Catalyst 9.3 release, it is almost certain that cards BEFORE the HD2xxx series will be classed as LEGACY products and therefore be getting 4 drivers a year rather than monthly ones available to date. This means that drivers will be issued every 3...

Hoping to reduce the ubiquitous question "which PSU is good for my....?" we're posting a list of "reputable" power supply units and video card boosters. The PSUs are divided into "classes", which are not absolute! That means if you have 75 hard-drives and a microwave attached to your rig, you'll...

It has been brought to my attention that in a lot of boxes from european countries, the information about PSU requirements is limited to the number of WATTs of the PSU and no information about amps in the **12v rail are being included. This situation tends to change in the future. The department of...

OK, so if your card has 3 wires for monitoring the fan speed, it's totally possible to get it working for HD3870s as you can see from the pic above !! Go to RegEdit ( backup your registry if you think you'll mess it up .. I take no responsibility for anything you do to your own machines ! )....

Problem - CCC will not open or run after updating drivers / Install failures. If you're faced with those issues, try these solutions. May not work if any driver sweeper or registry entry cleaners have been used. Might also be of use if errors are encountered during installation of...

Heya,.. When lit, the diagnostic LEDs for the following cards have the following meaning :- HD4850 LEDs D1601 - Over temp protection enabled D1602 - EXT 12V fault

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Available here :- http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx GG

This is a Guide for Rivatuners Fan speed control for Ati cards ( all current cards to date ) This is a real Simple adjustment . This Guide will show You how to set the fan speed manually to a constant speed ie. 50% / 60% / etc. etc. and bypasses the temperature setting of Ati's Bios setting ... ...

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Troubleshooting - The Basics First things first, this is the Troubleshooting Section. This means it is good for asking for help if your brand-new 22" TFT display obstinately refuses to display a picture, if the textures in your favourite game appear distorted if you play it for 18 hours...

LEDs on RD580 Board There are 5 LEDs next to the CPU / DIMM slots - these are PWM & VID LEDs for the CPU .. shows voltage regulation consisting of either 2-, 3- or 4-phases to provide power to the CPU & shows VID-code provided by the CPU to program the desired CPU core voltage. Near to Fan...

There ya go, Rap! Good work. NOTE: This Is guide ONLY. Overclocking Your card could VOID the Warrenty on it and SapphireTech and the people @ these forums DO NOT take responsibility For your actions Requarding Overclocking as this is your Choice ALONE ... I highly Recommend Using A Third Party...

Forum Rules Official Tech Support: This is not an 'Official Tech Support' forum for sapphiretech.com. This is a SAPPHIRE USER BASED FORUM i.e. Sapphire users helping out other Sapphire users. You can ask questions and may receive help, but only after doing appropriate research (your...

I didnt know exactly where to place this tutorial . as this is more for trouble shooting and monitoring your video cards while gaming . This is something i threw together a while ago and thought what the heck why not share it here ... This tutorial explains on how to set up a temp and frame...

I have found a way to sucessfully work around a devastating problem I had after installing Catalyst while running Vista. The Problem As I indicated in a previous thread, every time I installed Catalyst and rebooted my computer, I would get an Out of Frequency Error. It would also say that...