i overclocked the card *HD3870* and and stopped at 852 or around there, i went into COD4 played it for about a minute or two and then my system show down on me. i went to reboot my system and all i got was an on off response. it turned on for about a half second and then back off. is my video card in lock out mode? even if i unplug the power cable from the car is still does the same thing, i have not yet re-flashed the bios as stated in the article, any help would be appreciated

Lockups in 3d games now...stable at 862mhz before, now not even at 777mhz.


It's sad that I can walk into a Fry's electronics store, which stocks just about everything, and find plenty of 2400 and 2600 ATI cards. But never have I seen a 2900. We're now into the 3000 series and it's equally as frustrating. There are empty shelves for the new 8800GTs. I have to wonder if the employees aren't snapping them up for resale on ebay.

An interesting read, but please try not to appear as a hardware fetishist every time you talk about video accelerators!! It's not even amusing.

I wonder if an extra 38MHz is worth the hassle and risks of a bios flash. And if you're gonna get an expensive water-cooling kit, you might as well pay the extra towards a 8800GT or 8800GTX.