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May 26, 2013, 07:59:44 AM |
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The only driver you need for ALL ATI cards is "catalyst drivers"... No special manufactures drivers required. (There is only one manufacture AMD.)
Eg, there is not a separate 7950, and 7970 and 7990 driver. They are all the same driver. (The OLDER ones for the 7950 might not identify the 7990, but the drivers for 7990 will have settings for 7950.)
One brand being MSI, one being HIS, one being PowerColor, one being AMD... has nothing to do with the actual card, other then bios-settings which have nothing to do with drivers, or specific hardware components, which also have nothing to do with drivers. (Unless they added a "special" chip to the board, which none have done... Or they have "tweaked" the original drivers for some "game" special performance... than there are only one set of drivers you need... catalyst drivers.)
Drivers are just command-lines, which windows or linux uses to talk to the card, and get info out, or tell it to do something. Drivers don't actually control the cards, the bios does that, and controllers. Drivers just tell the programs where to listen for output, and what to say to suggest commands. The catalyst drivers simply give the user additional controlling suggestions, for how the card should run, but the card does most of the "telling you what it wants to do". (They give us super constrained limits that don't normally do much damage, if pushed to a limit. "Normally". lol, we don't run these cards "normal".)
You should be fine with the latest catalyst drivers, and latest afterburner-beta.
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