Could a better heatsink really help????

I'm having the hardest time trying to find the right cable for my
video card.  It's a VisionTek 256MB X1300 DMS59 SFF PCI-e (Graphics by
ATI).  It supports dual monitors.  The splitter cable that came with
the card broke during a move.  I thought it would be easy to replace

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
8.7 Catalyst for 4850/70 are here!!!

As hot as 4850, even its heatsink fan is bigger....

Just got a diamond stealth 2400 pro, running Vista 32bit sp1.   The audio is
gone from my computer, redownloaded the audio (from the motherboard) driver
and no go, no audio.    How do I correct this, the ATI and diamond web sites
are not helping.

Evening all,
I've just installed this new card to replace an X850XT; running under
XP32 (or XP64) I'm not seeing any performance increase, quite the
opposite in fact.

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This card works very well with FEAR and COD4, but when I try any Source
games it will run for 10-20 seconds then go blank screen.  I've tried
the 8.5, 8.6, 8.6 hotfix, and 8.7 beta drivers.  All of them do the same
thing.  The monitor shows no signal and I have to shutdown then ...

I am needing to do some video editing and want to upgrade my video
card.  My current operating system is Windows XP SP3.  The board's
processor is a 1GHz processor (AMD Athlon) with 1024MB of RAM.
I have one AGP slot (2.0 compliant) and an empty PCI slot below it.

Hey guys. I'm struggling to see which of the Radeon 3870 and the
GeForce 8800GT has the better performance.
Basically I'm getting a motherboard with an X48 chipset, so I'm
leaning towards the Radeon so that in the future I could CrossFire two

I have an x1650pro 512mb agp card that makes a screaming alarm sound. It
doesnt appear to be heat related card is running 53-54C and is driving me
crazy. This is a replacement card since other had the same problem. Have
tried changing drivers and still have the same problem. ...

I read everything that anyone had to say about the HD4870 and I felt I had a
good idea what to expect. So, as instructed, I went to the 'Control
anel'  -  'Add or Remove Programs'  - 'ATI - Software Uninstall Utility' and
had ATI remove everything supporting my old HD3870. Turned ...

I have 3.4GHZ C2D so I am ok but a friend went from 3870 to 4850 on AMD
2.4GHZ cpu and the stress test in HL-2 Lost Coast shows hardly any
difference for him. For him it is not a worthwhile upgrade so think about
that if you are planning to get a 4850 or 4870 and you don't have a ...

My Asus P5Q3 mobo manual talks of a 4pin cable that connects a mobo
spdif connector to a 4pin connector on an Asus graphics card.  This
supposedly lets the audio be handled on the, for example, 4850 card
and then out thru its HDMI connection.