XpertVision suck the phat one :P

[dug777]

While my good card is away on RMA i bought a cheap 9550, now i wanted a sapphire but they were out of stock, so the guy assured me that xpertvision were an ok brand, and that i'd have no probs with their passively cooled 256mb, 128bit 9550.

I was in a hurry so i grudging bought the thing, big mistake It kept crashing in (VPU recover) hl2 so i fired up atitools and checked out the artifact thing, get this, at stock speed it was unstable :|

I touched the heatsink (quite hot but not amazingly) and RAM (very cool) but thought maybe a bit of extra cooling would help, so i popped a little heater (fan on only obviously) and hl2 worked perfectly :|

I then fired up farcry, and even with the fan it was crashing after a min or so, so i got a big fan (prob 400m deskfan), and on the fastest setting farcry was stable (well it artifacted sometimes, but not badly, and didn't crash). Just to test we turned the fan off while playing, lasted less than a min b4 in crashed :|

So why on earth do they even sell the card? My case has good airflow (three well positioned case fans), with my 9800 pro all my games run flawlessly with the case closed...

Anyway i'm demanding a refund, and ordered an ABIT 9550, looks sweet, all that vGuru overclocking stuff looks neat, and it has a variable speed fan, monitoring software, dula bios etc, as well as RAMsinks...so i don't think it will have heat problems

 

[dug777]

bump so more people can see how shoddy they were for me

+how angry i am :|

 

[Corporate Thug]

you are a brave man for running HL2 and FC with a 9550

 

[dug777]

Well i dont really mind if the framerate drops into the twenties sometimes, but certainly hl2 runs excellently at 1024 with everything maxed and 4xAF, as you would expect it to given the 9550 is just a downclocked 9600 Pro... (edit according to atitraytool running around nova prospekt with loads of antlions i was sitting about 30fps avg, dropping to 26 min, peaking at mid 50s)...

Farcry was running fine at 1024, high settings, and 1st af setting, probably a bit slower than hl2 tho... (atitraytools said 24fps minimum at the end of archive, huge open area, loads of trees, water etc, usually around high 20s/l0w 30s, peaking at maybe 40fps at the most).

 

[pooyamolavi]

I bought a Abit 256 MB 128 bit 9550 last weak. In some games like hl2 and gta3 it crashes after 5 minutes of playing, tried the 5.8 catalyst but it makes things worse. Other games like Warcraft III and Chronicles of Riddicks run smoothly and are stable. Any help appreciated.