Do ATI 5000 Series recover from sleep well?

[Bob151]

My last ATI card was an X850XT. I'm predominately an NV consumer, I'll admit. However the lofty price of the 200 Series GTX products, and it seems they just have not come down much over the year(s), is making me seriously consider an ATI 5770. I can get one now for ~$135. I have been watching the price of NV products like the GTX 260 barely drop below the $200 mark. Sure there have been a few sales here or there which I have missed.

I use sleep mode a lot. It works brilliantly with Windows 7 and my NV GPU desktops and an Intel GPU(junk) on my laptop. When systems come out of sleep mode, I never suffer glitches. I never have graphical problems, misdrawn garbage or artifacts.

Hopefully things are better these days with all products. By the time I got that X850XT most stability/artifact issues I recalled from my past with ATI products -rarely- appeared. However, sleep (or was it suspend in XP) was still not cooperative with my setup, not really sure why.

Does the ATI 5000 (5770) recover from sleep in Win7 64-bit and can display game graphics without issues? Without reboots? Without artifacts?

Thanks.

 

[PUN]

yes

 

[madh83]

Haven't had any problems with a 5750 in vista 32-bit/win7 64-bit

 

[wrangler]

2 of my machines have ATI 5xxx series cards and they both sleep and wake up with no problems.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Win 7 64 and 5850. Sleep works like a freakin' gem. Usually my comp sleeps twice a day: after morning use and when I'm a sleep.

 

[Number1]

I have had PLENTY of waking up from sleep issues with my system using the Sapphire HD5770. I don't know if it's the video card causing the problem.

I replaced the card with 2 Power Color 5450s yesterday so I could drive 2 HDMI displays. So far I had no issues with waking up but only time will tell.

Edit: See sig for system details

 

[Grinja]

No problems running a HD5850 on Win7 64bit.

I don't recall ever having issues with sleep and video with Vista and Win 7. My sound card on the other hand did not like when I was on Vista.

 

[evolucion8]

Probably the X850XT had insomnia or sleep apnea j/k. I never had issues with sleeping since the X1950 series introduction, I did had some issues sometimes with the X800XT PE.

 

[NoStateofMind]

I've had so many issues with sleep I never use it anymore. More power to those of you who deal with it.

 

[Generator]

I like sleep feature, but doesn't go well with my 5850. Win 7 32 bit...computer also doesn't always boot up my monitor and peripherials from shutdown over night.

Some sort of power problem dealing with vid card, power supply, something.

 

[1h4x4s3x]

Not sure but I'd guess this is a Windows issue since it doesn't work for me with a Nvidia card. However, it works perfectly on my Mac under bootcamp with a HD 4670 though.

 

[Stoneburner]

Sleep issues generally seem to be a mobo issue in my experience. Specifically, ASUS and sleep no work well!

I've no issues with my 5770's, gigabyte board and resume from sleep.

 

[evolucion8]

Sleep issues generally seem to be a mobo issue in my experience. Specifically, ASUS and sleep no work well!

I've no issues with my 5770's, gigabyte board and resume from sleep.

May be it has something to do with the ATK10 chip stuff embedded in the motherboard to save power. But I used to had sleep issues with my P4P800-E Deluxe, but it was when I had the Pentium M processor with the C-479 adapter. It was a killer adapter, it would be awesome if Asus invented an adapter to adapt other type of CPU's like the first generation of Core Duo for power saving purposes, or Atom's or LGA1156 processors, hehe, it would be a cheap way to broader choices, but the 775 platform is at the end of the road.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Yeah sleep issues tend to be Motherboard issues more than anything else. Have both an ATI HD4850 & an Nvidia 8800GTS 320. On a Gigabyte board, the 8800 "slept" just fine, no issues whatsoever. Moved it to my lanbox w/ an old Biostar 6100-M9 motherboard, damn computer just can't make it all the way to sleep mode (Bios settings are properly toggled).

4850 on the Gigabyte sleeps just fine, no problems. Haven't bothered moving the 4850 to the Biostar mobo, tho.

 

[ZimZum]

I've had so many issues with sleep I never use it anymore. More power to those of you who deal with it.

I never understood the appeal. May as well do a proper shutdown.

 

[toyota]

I never understood the appeal. May as well do a proper shutdown.

why? sleep is there for a reason and its very convenient. there are times when I dont use the pc for an hour or two maybe more but hate to leave it fully up in running so just put it to sleep so I can quickly resume what I was doing. only time I turn my pc completely off is when I will gone for more than a day.

 

[happy medium]

I use sleep every night and it wake up fine every morning ,but when I had a biostar board it gave me problems ,especially when overclocked. I think it was a memory issue.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Sleep issues generally seem to be a mobo issue in my experience. Specifically, ASUS and sleep no work well!

I've no issues with my 5770's, gigabyte board and resume from sleep.

Maybe you just had a bad experience? My P55 ASUS mobo is the most solid I've owned yet, and like I said earlier, it sleeps like a gem.

My last rig, MSI K8N Neo4 (fx-55 days), nothing really seemed to work as well as it should. Sleep was total crap, but I just assumed it XP and not the hardware.

edit: I'm on cat 9.12 hotfix I think. Maybe without hotfix.

 

[BD231]

It's a driver issue entirely, uninstall your video card drivers and sleep works like a gem for some reason.

 

[Compddd]

It's a driver issue entirely, uninstall your video card drivers and sleep works like a gem for some reason.

This

Also I've had TONS of sleep problems with my 5870. I am planning to drop it for a GTX 480 if I can get one, since I never had sleep problems with Nvidia cards.

 

[AmdInside]

Mine crashes when left in sleep for over 20 minutes. Didn't happen with previous Geforce GTX 260 card. If it sleeps for 1 minute, it is fine.

 

[Bob151]

Thanks for all you replies. As over half ATI owners seem to report success, I'm going to hope that the remaining were bad mobos or torqued OSes.

 

[Maximilian]

Mines fine in windows 7 x64. I got a 5850.