Blitz

Besides from dell anywhere i can get the ribbon that connects to the hinge cover ( mobo to hinge) it turns it on but no media lights. Reason i ask for somewhere else is it takes 2+ hours for them to get me the right part and this one would be even harder to explain. thanks ~Blitz

well i cant update my 5870's past 11.9 on amd catalyst i get a blue screen everytime this is 11.10 through 11.12, i have to restart in safe mode and remove the cards then install 11.9, so my question is is there a fix for this i have overclocked the gpus to 800 and 1200 on memory but i wouldn't think that would be an issue.. I'm looking to get this solved asap, as my beloved r1/2 (if you remember my other thread) is going to my dad and i got a mad deal on a m18x that i later plan to upgrade to to 6990's, my dad isn't computer smart at all and i'd rather not work on his computer all the time thanks in advance ~Blitz

throttling for sure i had the same issue with bf3 then i repasted with stock clocks on my 5870's now i'm running 900 mhz and 1200 mhz on memory on the gpus and its running nice and cool download this play the game and then check you temps after HWiNFO64 Download hwinfo64 for 64 bit windows or hwinfo32 for 32 bit..

well i took it back apart and removed a bit of paste on the side of the die and its idling at 35C running prime for 45 mins max temps got to 75C and it sat and held for quite awhile i think its cooler because of less paste and my room is 40F so if it was 70F i think it will run around 85-86C on prime which is great got her fixed and working great, i also did a bench 3dmark06 and got 20532 so pretty good about 1000 up from before

that could work i might look into that today good idea wouldn't be hard to do either

now just got to get that cpu run a bit cooler anything over 90C i hate i think i saw 1 core at 94c and it could be the R1 fan i'll have to look into it more

also overclocked to 900 mhz gpu 1200 Mhz mem 1.13V max temps were 85C running bf3 for about 2 hours so i'm quite happy its running amazing

cheap to for what it is, after it was bought for 500 (the R1) i traded the msi i used to reflash this for it so no money lost there technically bought the motherboard, screen, cpu, and gpus to make it an r2 and after selling everything off im into the laptop with hdds and all 300 dollars so i'll take that upgrade for that cheap

I personally think it looks the same as any other r1 or r2 its what is was before to what it is now that makes it sweet

i technically have an r1/2 r1 parts are the card reader, wifi card, bluetooth card, keyboard, speakers, and bottom chassis, so the service tag is an r1 service tag everything else is r2

the method you were using for your 6970s with rbe works really well with the 5870s i have to use the overclock tunner though if i don't i have to reflash them right now i'm currently sitting at 800 mhz and 1100 mhz on memory i'm sure i could push it further as i think max they were hitting 83C i did a repaste on everything and its running like a champ now, i know my cpu is at 3.2 5% overclock but it seems to run a bit hot did they release new fans with the R2?, reason i ask is because this is actually an r1 system, i've changed the motherboard out the gpus, cpu, and to a blu ray player everything else is from the r1 and all works perfectly. O and the screen from the 1440x900 to the 1980x1200 i would have bought 2 of them had my cards not reflashed correctly but i ended up spending that elsewhere

well that fixed it i'm actually kind of bumbed but i think id rather wait and buy another killer machine on a later date this one should serve me for the next 6 months or so unless ofcourse i view the bench thread

I'm not seeing it for 436 if I could get it for that price id Jump on it granted if I can't get my 5870s to post O yes thanks for the help thus far I'm a wizz on desktops but laptops and gpu compatibily get me stumped

They do have them with no posts so its compatible with the r2 and I'm not home yet I will be late tonight to try the msi but is the 6990 alot better then the 6970 I mean with another 200?

The cards itself looks fine as far layout but compatibility is the question I saw in feed back one guy had it in an r2 but not crossfire..