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Charles S.

Charles S.

Joined on 05/19/03

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Most Critical Review

Card Is Fast But Fails For Dual Monitors

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100281VXSR
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100281VXSR

Pros: Fast but you all know this already...

Cons: Does not seem to support Dual Monitors correctly. When running a single monitor all is OK. When I activate Dual Monitors there is a intermittant flickering on the Primary Monitor 1 on the lower half of the screen. It is random (intermittant) and appears to be a sync issue while the top half of the screen is rock solid as is Monitor 2. I ran these two monitors from a 4870 and they were perfect (Dell 2408WFPs). Not sure if this is the card or driver issue. The issue does go away when I switch back to a single monitor. And yes the single monitor is the same monitor as in the Dual Monitors.

Overall Review: This is a new product and not everyone is running Dual Monitors at 1920x1200. Hope this is a driver issue.

Defective HDD Out Of Box

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Sounds like a great drive from reading the reviews but,,,

Cons: Hooked this HDD to my 965P-DQ6 and BIOS automatically detected it as a 33mb HDD. I could not get this MOBO to see this HDD as a 1TB Drive. I suspect drive is defected so I returned it.

Overall Review: I installed a 750GB HDD with absolutely no issues and MOBO BIOS automatically detected it correctly.