[Wolferion]

Hiya!
We've bought this graphics card yesterday, it's told to be really cool.
I connected it to my motherboard, my power supply is Craiser TX650 ( 650W ), which is definitely enough to get this card running. The trouble though is actually that CCC ( Catalyst Control Center ) manual fan control doesn't really work, the fan is really quiet all the time. It overheats once I turn some game on and that gets on my nerves. Can't change fan's speed ( the fan's pretty big ) and the water starts boiling ( it's cooled by water which is cooled by a fan built in graphics card. Don't ask me why they made it so ). I tried RivaTuner, but it tells me that it doesn't have what it takes to operate with that graphics, CCC fan control doesn't work, I'm really lost. I tried looking on internet for some solutions for about 1 hour and found nothing that could help me. Any ideas guys?

[Akimoto]

Open the window - open the computer side cover thingey - make sure there are no dust - buy another fan - watch this - interesting - hmm

[Wolferion]

Can't be something with fan =) We bought it from really good quality media shop. I suppose there's something with driver or my system.

[Rugg]

maybe the motherboard doesn't support fan tweaking? i've heard it's a good card anyway, but that CCC sucks

[Wolferion]

Well I tried out everything I could find. Me and father came to conclusion that the card is seriously messed up. I have all drivers up to date, my motherboard is Core 2 Quad from last editions, my power supply is really strong for that etc etc. We're going to go to those guys and give them the card back

But oh man, what a shame. That 4890HD card is 2x better than mine 4850HD and I have to use the 4850 again as it just doesn't overheat =)

(The card is seriously messed up because it overheats to 83Celsius while windows is just loading, which is really bad )

[Chantelle]

83C is seriously wrong

The card wont last long like that.

Infact it should probably shutdown at around that, maybe 90.

I have had two ATi Cards with faults.

I dont mind them

But have to say you get a much better card drive package with nVidia.. never going Ati again. Been there / left them for much time / went back to ATI hoping they had changed.

[Wolferion]

Well I left nVidia a few years ago when my nVidia card burnt, which seemed quite strange to me as I played not that demanding games of that time. Anyway, we're going to them today with the card and if I can overtalk my furious parents, I guess I'll get nVidia card of same worth as that ATI Radeon 4890HD.

Thanks Chantelle!

[Melissa]

ATI have a long rep for faults and in particular driver issues and stuff

Sadly they are apatheical to resolve this.

As a result nVidia always remain on top. Just a better package