Bad Nvidia experience. Quiet Radeon recommendations?

[Koolpc]

Let us know what you think of it when you get it up and running.

[DavidA]

Wll do.

[DavidA]

The Sapphire HD 4850 arrived quickly from Scan. Inside my PC it was pretty noisy. I try hard to keep things quiet but this was significantly louder than the Asus EN9800GT Ultimate. I was also reminded how much I dislike the ATI control panel etc.

All would have been forgiven if it solved my Vista problem but it exhibited the same problem as the Geforce. More info in this post.

I'll probably return it to Scan but thanks for the help all the same.

[WoLFe]

The no signal problem is a real bitch. Why no one is addressing it head on, I don't know.

[moogle]

I was also reminded how much I dislike the ATI control panel etc.

You could always just find the raw drivers and let windows install it through an inf file, but then you lose the featuers of the ati cp (overclocking and temp monitoring right?)

[Webby]

Use ATI tray tools and just download the driver pack from ATI if you don't like catalyst control centre.

Get the latest ATI tray tools beta from here http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=275077 it has been beta for ages now (not that particular version) but I think this is more due to new features being added all the time and new graphics cards and drivers being released etc.