Well I have decided to take the Sapphire card back. Even under windows is crashes after 30 minutes. It is possible it is just a hardware fault, but my confidence in an ATI card has totally deminished. I’m going to get an Nvidia 9800 based card. It might cost me another £20 but it will at least be stable under Linux, and Windows games should fly, should I decide to keep an install.
I have tried a clean Windows install, tried older drivers. But things get worse, a totally corrupted screen to BSOD under Windows. Linux is worse even a 2D desktop without any effects crashes after 10 minutes. Can’t install an older driver since, the older releases don’t support the hardware past Catalyst 8.10. With the current release being 8.12.
This card has had amazing reviews on the web, so it could be hardware. Why can’t PCs be like Mac and just work dammit.
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