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ATI has said that it is working on the problem with their 3.8 drivers causing some cards to run hotter during games like MOHAA, and also one ATI beta tester claimed his monitor got burned out. Go to www.alliedassault.com, and then follow the link were it talks about it, I'll cut and paste the message from the forum

G.I.Bro posted this note over at RAGE 3D:

"While I was reading through the forums, I noticed a few threads popping up in which are discussing thoughts that the CATALYST 3.8Â’s could be burning out peoples hardware. People on the forums are mentioning that the 3.8Â’s are overheating their video cards, along with monitors burning out! I just spoke to Terry Makedon (aka CATALYST maker) about this, and this is what he had to say:

1) Overheating. We have spent a great deal of time analyzing the temperatures due to the CATALYST 3.8 drivers. We do not under any circumstance see anything near a 10 degree Celsius increase in temperature (but we donÂ’t overclock our test cards either). We do see a slight increase in temperature in certain cases (3Dmark2003 Nature Scene for example). However any temperature increase is well within our safety range. Investigation continues and we are trying to determine why this change in temperature exits

2) Monitors. We have spent a great deal of time trying to reproduce this problem and analyzing the driver code. There is nothing to be found. At this point we are working very closely with an ATI Beta Tester who experienced a monitor loss. There have been zero reports in our customer support of monitors dying.

Thanks goes out to Terry for taking a few moments out of his extremely busy day for us! "

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infinix

dude dotn give me a heart attack like that lol

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wackrapper13

I dont understand the concept of the monitor thing. the only conclusion i can make is if the card was sending dangerous frequncies to the monitor and making the monitor hard on itself. That might be possible

The overheating could be very possible also because the instrucion sets or drivers that the chip uses could make the chip work a different way. Taking the harder road to producing a 3D image could be in relation to the Catalyst drivers. I am getting an ATI card soon so I will do some research

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j-dogg

thx for the warning though I shouldnt have to worry about the overheating thing because of the beefy Socket 7 HS that's going on my Radeon.

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Joose

a fkn driver can't hose a monitor. That's just sh!t. Smells like coincedence or someone's trying to get a free monitor out of ATI.

The heating thing? Well, that just sucks. Time to get one of those kewl radeon heatpipe thingys on my 9500...

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carbongraphite

oh no its that article from the 80s about hackers makeing powerful chips explode from complex code!
ATi just didnt streamline the code as well this time causeing slight inefficency.

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