CrazykennySure if you dont mind a 4 gigawatt heat furnace sitting in your PC, that costs a fortune. I rather stick to the red side untill Nvidia has corrected its mistakes.

Damn I loved the 8, 9 and some of the 200 series. But there latest cards are just below standard. Atleast, not the quality I am used to from Nvidia. Heat and powerconsumption do mind, thank you very much.

GzeroHehe, just my hands on a 8800 GTX, and your saying that Nvidia never made a mistake in this series :roll:

Looking forward to the leccey bill with 2 pc's running last gen high end hw.

Crazykenny...I rather stick to the red side untill Nvidia has corrected its mistakes.

wolfGF104, nuf' said.

brandonwh64GF104 is OK but not ground breaking.

Shifting mouse cursor between displays no longer causes intermittent cursor
corruption or system lock up

BobingtonI got a bone to pick with W1zzard concerning the new 10.8 drivers.

On page 7 it says the following:


I purchased a 5870 based on the reviews posted on TPU and other sites and at the time no review contained any warnings about lock ups or faulty drivers. Given that most people who would purchase a $400 GPU will more than likely be using 2 monitors it seems extremely relevant to inform them that if they use 2 monitors the cursor will become corrupted and your system will crash.

Meanwhile, before 10.5 it was impossible to overclock using multiple monitors without the screens starting to flicker. Something that seems very hard for reviewers to not have noticed given that they all overclock the cards and these cards are designed for use with 3 monitors.

I'm happy that these issues have finally been resolved but it would have been nice to have been told about them BEFORE we made the purchase and it should not have taken almost a year for these issues to be acknowledged by ATI and be fixed.

I hope reviewers do a better job informing consumers of the next generation of video cards.

AphexDreamerI don't think in any of the 5870 reviews he claims to have tested the cards with Eyeinfinty thus he shouldn't be blamed for something he didn't test and the reader can only assume what the performance regarding that would be like. If he did have results with Eyeinfinty it was strictly game performance, its a hardware review not a driver review. If a crash occurred I'm sure he would have mentioned it.

Also if you bought the card and weren't happy with it nothing was stopping you from returning it.

pantherx12He probably should review all the features of a card though eh?

After all its not just frame rates we buy cards for.

AphexDreamerYeah don't get me wrong that would be great if he added it but since he hadn't, people should do research else were if they plan to use that like read forums to find out issues if any. Of course driver issues will vary from PC to PC so he might not have had any Eyeinfinty issues anyways and still get blamed for it even if he did add it. Review was obviously for 1 monitor solutions, people looking for an eyeinfinty review should read one.

LAN_deRf_HAI'd imagine at least some of the reasons why driver bugs are missed by reviewers is because a portion of driver bugs result from differing driver installation methods. Many reviewers do tests on a fresh install or totally erase the drivers before installing new ones.

Aside from that I'd blame it on limited time with a product. For a site to uncover the monitor issue it would have needed to combine an eyefinity review with the main review and they would have had to be one of the few sites that includes the overclock results in all benchmarks. Few sites do that, and most eyefinity reviews were done a good while after the initial release reviews.

BobingtonI got a bone to pick with W1zzard concerning the new 10.8 drivers.

On page 7 it says the following:


I purchased a 5870 based on the reviews posted on TPU and other sites and at the time no review contained any warnings about lock ups or faulty drivers. Given that most people who would purchase a $400 GPU will more than likely be using 2 monitors it seems extremely relevant to inform them that if they use 2 monitors the cursor will become corrupted and your system will crash.

Meanwhile, before 10.5 it was impossible to overclock using multiple monitors without the screens starting to flicker. Something that seems very hard for reviewers to not have noticed given that they all overclock the cards and these cards are designed for use with 3 monitors.

I'm happy that these issues have finally been resolved but it would have been nice to have been told about them BEFORE we made the purchase and it should not have taken almost a year for these issues to be acknowledged by ATI and be fixed.

I hope reviewers do a better job informing consumers of the next generation of video cards.

BobingtonI'm guessing my post was confusing from the replies, the cursor bug doesnt happen only in Eyefinity rigs but in all multi-monitor configurations. Assuming the reviewer was using Windows 7 and 2+ monitors he would have run into the bug.