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It is a lesson I have learned the hard way man. Expect it is broke until you've tested that it is not.

I had no issues using any driver through HD3200, HD4200, HD4250, HD4270, HD4870, GTS250, GT540m, NVS135m, FX2500m, and GTX480, but was broadsided within hours with issues on the 6970s. Tested across multiple boards (well 2 as that is how many I have), multiple PSUs, multiple OSes (7, Vista, XP, Ubuntu and Crunchbang), and with just one card in. Had the same issue across all of them, so assuming since the driver versions (11.10, 12.6, 12.10, 12.11B) were the only thing constant across setups the drivers are at fault.

But maybe it is a HD6k issue. Maybe it is a issue with AMD and DirectCompute. Not sure, but just letting you know ahead of time that there are issues that can happen.
 
I've used a few ATI cards, X800 XT Platinum, X1300, HD 5870 and a few various integrated chipsets. Never had a problem with ATI drives, in fact I've had more problems with NVIDIA drivers.

I'd say go for it.
 
wolfeking said:
It is a lesson I have learned the hard way man. Expect it is broke until you've tested that it is not.

I had no issues using any driver through HD3200, HD4200, HD4250, HD4270, HD4870, GTS250, GT540m, NVS135m, FX2500m, and GTX480, but was broadsided within hours with issues on the 6970s. Tested across multiple boards (well 2 as that is how many I have), multiple PSUs, multiple OSes (7, Vista, XP, Ubuntu and Crunchbang), and with just one card in. Had the same issue across all of them, so assuming since the driver versions (11.10, 12.6, 12.10, 12.11B) were the only thing constant across setups the drivers are at fault.

But maybe it is a HD6k issue. Maybe it is a issue with AMD and DirectCompute. Not sure, but just letting you know ahead of time that there are issues that can happen.
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It's definitely good to know.


spirit said:
I've used a few ATI cards, X800 XT Platinum, X1300, HD 5870 and a few various integrated chipsets. Never had a problem with ATI drives, in fact I've had more problems with NVIDIA drivers.

I'd say go for it.
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I probably will. At around $200 it seems to be the best for the money. Won't be until next pay day though, Gotta buy a new power supply first. After that it's either the SSD or the video card, depends on which is on a better special :P
 
Yeah I think you should get the 7870. Drivers should be fine I reckon, though I can't say for sure as everybody's systems are different. I've not had a problem with them though. And with those NVIDIA drivers I had issues with, nobody else had issues with the drivers I had problems with. I found the issue was done to my board and power supply.
 
spirit said:
Yeah I think you should get the 7870. Drivers should be fine I reckon, though I can't say for sure as everybody's systems are different. I've not had a problem with them though. And with those NVIDIA drivers I had issues with, nobody else had issues with the drivers I had problems with. I found the issue was done to my board and power supply.
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I'm sure they will be, my system is playing nice with the 7670. Also it's an AMD based system, I'd hope it'd play nice with AMD video cards :P
 
speedyink said:
Also it's an AMD based system, I'd hope it'd play nice with AMD video cards :P
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They are complete separate sides of the company. AMD Graphics has nothing in common with AMD CPU and AMD Chipset during development and driver programming. The main exception being the fusion chips, and they pull a functional GPU chip and drop it on the die.

Main point being, just because your graphics card says AMD does not mean that it will work any better with AMD CPU.
 
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