Share your 4850/4870 Benchmarks w/ 8.7 drivers

[rafer]

could people please state whether they're using a 4850, 4870? (or more than one)

 

[The_Abyss]

Is that the default cooler SpinachEater, because if it is, 45% fan is impossibly loud.

 

[bfellow]

45% isnt that loud. On the other hand, setting mine to 70% gets the jet engine started.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

Oh yeah, forgot about them coming out.

Me too. Thanks for the info about them coming out... period.

I have my CoD4 FPS limit currently set to 200FPS... looks like I'm going to need to raise it to 300 😛

 

[SpinachEater]

spinach do you have a 4850 or 4870?

I searched your posts and your profile and couldn't find it...

I got a Sapphire 4870 with the stock cooler. My extra info has my system setup. I have an Antec900 so I already hear a whooshing noise form the case fans. at 45% I can hear the VGA cooler over the case fans but it doesn't have that hair dryer high pitched noise...just a louder whoosh.

I did a quick few minutes of Crysis on the new drivers and it seems the same to me. I haven't had the chance look into it deeper but here is my master plan; I dual boot Vista and XP. I haven't updated the drivers on Vista yet so I will benchmark with 8.6, upgrade, and then benchmark with 8.7 to see what is up with Crysis. I don't have much time though right this week.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

Ok, I will actually post some 3DMark06 stuff.

Really not too much of an improvement.

3DMark06, 8.6 Drivers- 13053
3DMark06, 8.7 Drivers- 13141

Good enough for me. I mean, they're drivers.

 

[AAArDvArK]

Here are my results:

3DMark06, 8.6 Drivers- 18133
3DMark06, 8.7 Drivers- 18587


Q9450 @ 3.2 water cooled, Velociraptor, 4GB 1066 Raptors, HD 4870 Crossfire OC 790/1000, Corsair 740W, Antec 1200.

 

[SpinachEater]

Did xfire improve in any games?

 

[AAArDvArK]

Yes, WIC gave me considerably higher scores in the built in benchmarks, like 5-10% increase. Somewhat better scaling, but I still expect there is room for driver improvment.

 

[SonDa5]

RIG SPECS

ECS GF7060VT-M mATX MB which features NVIDIA MCP73V Chipset

Intel E8400@3.6GHZ cooled with Cooler Master TX 2

Corsair XMS2 DDR2 RAM@800mhz (OC for MB)

PSU Corsair TX650W

Custom Fry's GQ mATX case with 1 fan on video card, 1 lower front in, 1 exhaust

OS XP w/SP3

PowerColor HD4850 Core@700mhz vRAM@effective 2310Mhz
Stock fan on HD4850 with fan controls edited


3dMark06 best score so far..... 13,419 3DMarks

http://service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=7592186&compareResultType=14



Before this weekend is over I'm going to upgrade CPU fan to Zalman CNPS700 LED and apply Zalman Super Thermal Grease to CPU, NB, HD4850 GPU and vRAM if possible.


I have Antec Formula 5 on my E8400 right now so I'm a little histant to put the Zalman Super grease on everthing but I've read that it is just as good as AS5 or AF5.

I went to Fry's today to look for Tuniq TX-2 to put on the HD4850 and didn't find any. I did find the Zalman CNPS9700 LED on sale for $39.99 so I decided to but it and get the grease included. 😀