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Old July 21, 2008, 12:06 PM
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Default Catalyst 8.7

Went live today, get it here.

Support for 4800 series cards and the following performance gains:

• 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% is noticed in the Performance
Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon™
HD 36xx or ATI Radeon™ HD 34xx products
• Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3% to 12% is noticed in
specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI
Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx
product
• Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4% to 15% is noticed in specific
maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™
HD 48xx, ATI Radeon™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
• Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps is
noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon™ HD
48xx product
• Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire™ scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance
increases up to 80% across all Radeon™ products when AA and AF is
enabled

Full change log is here.
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Old July 21, 2008, 12:13 PM
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Sweet!
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Old July 21, 2008, 12:17 PM
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ATI’s Folding@Home

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project designed by the Stanford University.
The application performs intensive simulations of protein folding. This
simulation will help researchers uncover how certain diseases develop. Folding@
Home uses distributed computing to simulate protein folding, the workload
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note 6
is broken up into small work units and distributed across hundreds of thousands of
computers over the internet. You can help find the cure to many different diseases!
To join Folding@Home, follow these steps:
1 Download ATI’s Catalyst™ software suite
2 Download the Folding@Home GPU client application
3 Enter the ATI team number 51394 and start folding!
For more information on Folding@Home visit: Products & Technologies
streamcomputing/folding.html


Awesome! 4870x2 will be ripping in Folding ! :P
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yes, but does it dfedicate to FAH@home? As far as im considering, FAH@home is a much more serious issue right now
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Old July 21, 2008, 12:42 PM
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Yes SIR!! Here we come 4800-series Crossfire review!!!
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Old July 21, 2008, 12:46 PM
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yes, but does it dfedicate to FAH@home? As far as im considering, FAH@home is a much more serious issue right now
Folding@home - Download the Folding@home software application

It's the real Folding@Home, they just ask you to enter their folding team (Which is optional, join the HWC Team ). So basicly you end up with the PS3 and Nvidia folders.
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Woohoo! Time to try 4850+3850 again ;)
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Woohoo! Time to try 4850+3850 again ;)
Pretty sure it still won't work.
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Woohoo! Time to try 4850+3850 again ;)

About selling your 3850 and get that second 4850
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Can you control the fan or do you still need a fan hack? Does the fan hack even work if you have to do that?

Anyway glad to see this here and hope crossfire improves-didnt see anything about crysis Xfire improvements though.
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