- Joined
- May 12, 2005
- Location
- Home... again
I had 4870 and 4890 Xfire so I thought I knew my way around the various quirks and things. All in all as a gamer crossfire was always awesome for me.
Today I nabbed a 2nd 5850, aside from the 10.3a driver being complete trash with 1 card or 2, I am loving it on the original 10.3 preview driver.
I have this weirdness though, almost seems like a new ATI Xfire power feature but I cant be sure, does the same on 10.2 and both 10.3 drivers.
Second card when not in a 3d app/game sits in a state of sleep almost... it is in 400/900 clock state using min .950 volts says everything that can read it. When I launch a game it comes right up with clocks and 3d volts and fan speed I set. When Idle though it does this. Is this what its supposed to be doing? my second 4870/4890 never behaved this way. Again once I launch a game it jumps into 3d mode and fan goes to 40% so it works correctly, i just never seen this before.
Today I nabbed a 2nd 5850, aside from the 10.3a driver being complete trash with 1 card or 2, I am loving it on the original 10.3 preview driver.
I have this weirdness though, almost seems like a new ATI Xfire power feature but I cant be sure, does the same on 10.2 and both 10.3 drivers.
Second card when not in a 3d app/game sits in a state of sleep almost... it is in 400/900 clock state using min .950 volts says everything that can read it. When I launch a game it comes right up with clocks and 3d volts and fan speed I set. When Idle though it does this. Is this what its supposed to be doing? my second 4870/4890 never behaved this way. Again once I launch a game it jumps into 3d mode and fan goes to 40% so it works correctly, i just never seen this before.
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