Sapphire HD 2600XT

Troubles

Unfortunately, the testing procedure with the 2600XT wasn’t the most straight forward. I had several driver problems with many of our benchmarking programs not working with the latest 7.6 released drivers, and the supplied 8.38.0.0 drivers. Fortunately, my contact at Sapphire allowed me to use some pre-release 8.38.9.1 drivers that were much more successful.

The second issue I ran into was with Futuremark’s 3Dmark applications. For some reason they weren’t able to detect the clock speeds of the card and would therefore hang on the loading screen. I am told that this is not the most uncommon problem and it was fixed relatively easily.

For a step by step procedure on how to do this, please read our forum post here.

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