Anyone interested in the inner working of the HD 4850 / HD 4870 can read a
good article from ExtremeTech at:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2320865,00.asp
The HD 4850 is available now, the HD 4870 should be announced for

I've been using Nvidia cards in my main PC exclusively for the last couple
of years and the last ATI card I bought was the X800XL. Just ordered a 4870
so will be booting the 8800GT out of my main PC very soon. This will be on
Vista64 so hope the drivers don't give me any issues ...

I have a DELL Vostro 1000 laptop. The video card is the Integrated ATI
Radeon Xpress 1150 HyperMemory adaptor. SiSoft's system information
diagnostic tool says the adaptor's part/model number is RS485M. Now
when I boot the laptop this number is flashed to the display before

Bought a Sapphire HD 4850 from Newegg. It arrived without a factory seal.
I've bought several Sapphire cards before and they always came sealed.
Newegg said they had no idea. Is it possible for a factory fresh card not to
have a seal?

Hi group,
Since years I run a dual boot W2K and XP. I am much more comfortable
with W2K.
A couple of months ago my 9600 XT suddenly gave up. I bought a HD 2600

Larrabee to also be presented at Hot Chips
Friday 13th June 2008, 11:24:00 PM, written by Arun
Since the rest of the internet is still at the stage where they're all
excited about Larrabee being presented at Siggraph (hint: you guys are

AGP variants almost boggle the mind and make it a nightmare to match
a video card to a motherboard.
   With rare exception, makers of video boards only tell you the "X part
(1X, 2X, 4X, 8X) and nothing else.

I want to be able to use two monitors at least (only one port on mobo)
and perhaps faster graphics although I don't really
do much in the way of  games but I guess better
graphics can do no harm.

GTX 280 drops to $499
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Thursday, 12 June 2008 09:24
Nvidia was planning to launch the Geforce GTX 280 at $599 and the GTX

I've downloaded the recommended driver for an old Rage Pro card from
the ATI site, wme-j5-30-1-b02.exe. But when I execute a program to
test its Opengl performance, I get "This program has performed an
illegal function etc" in module ATIO9XAE.DLL.

Hi,  I just got 2 new video cards and installed the drivers from the
internet instead of the ones on cd(box).
I was expecting a great improvement over my onboard video card, I mean a
huge difference but no,  it's faster  but just ok.

Hi ! I bought a theater 550 pcie last month, and placed it in my
computer, a c2d 2.13GHz, 2G, X1300 PRO passive cooling. I quickly came
to vista media center, and after setting all parameters accordingly, I
saw a big lag problem when watching cable TV. Most of the time, after

TV Wonder Pro - when it initializes, the audio is reset to MAX.
(Which causes audio distortion when recorded)
This occurs whether ATI Media center or Beyond TV accesses tuner.
One can manually adjust audio, but it is overridden whenever the card

I've been using a 9800 Pro for a couple of years with a single monitor. My
wife has been using an AIW with two monitors. It recently died. I gave her
my 9800 Pro, which is working fine for her two-monitor system.
I bought a 2nd monitor and purchased another 9800 Pro. It didn't play ...

Is it me or is v8.5 Vista Catalyst driver (upgraded from previous
versions) bad? I noticed my Vista's log in screen can't be clicked (have
to use the keyboard navigation). If I remove the login screen and use
one user in Vista, then I cannot click on my Start Menu, task bar,