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I only have room for a dual slot card in my current case, and i'm in need of another 5850 to run in crossfire and wondering if this card takes up 2 or 3 slots inside the case??
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Hows the fan noise? my normal asus 5850 gets kinda loud when gaming so will need a aftermarket cooler for it eventually. Mine is overclocked to 1009mhz tho
All I have used to overclock the card is SmartDoctor. I downloaded the latest version from Asus. The max my SmartDoctor will clock to is 1200mhz...
Oh good point, I just installed the one off the disc. I'll try the one from the site.
Edit: Downloaded the latest version from the support site but still limited to 900 core.
Heh Boozebeard, did u reach 900 core on default volts? My old reference card was just shy of been stable at 900 on stock volts. Got another Asus 5850 for some crossfire but this time its the directcu model. 850 seems fine (30 loops of crysis) and just done 875 with 3 loops of crysis. Hoping to hit least 900 so that not going to lag behind my old card when crossfire overclock.
Really dont want to use smartdoctor and already quiered using msi afterburner with this card but does not seem to have voltage support. Although i have had a reply to try something but going to see what stable through msi using stock volts.
My card is being really weird. Well mainly bad company is. I can play crysis warhead on stock volts at 900 core with no artifacts but I cant play battlefield on 1.2 volts at 550 core and 750 mem. Get black squares flashing all over the place.
My card came today. I can clock it up to 1200 core in CCC. Haven't bothered to fiddle with voltages yet but it clock to 875/1125. It should be noted that the 5850 Cu is a reference card, just with a better cooler.
Think my core maybe limited to 875mhz on default (which is slithly higher volts than my old reference design as well). I dont understand why the main asus software is limited when it blatantly advertises speeds in excess oif what it can possible do using the software provided. The reference card software didnt have this limit. I hope a new update comes out sharpsih which fixes it.
I think what might work is setting the voltage in smart doctor applying the overclock. then increase the clock speeds in CCC and apply that.
I really don't know what bad company's problem is. I just ran the Heaven benchmark for half an hour with 900 core on stock volts and no problems what so ever. But certain levels on bad company give me artifacts immediatley no matter what I set my speeds and volts too.
I just played badcompany multi for an hour and it was fine. It seems it's only some single player maps it doesn't like and freaks out on.
However i was getting some random flickerings in menues and I get them on my desktop as well if i like maximise a window or change windows or someithn like that. Dunno what could be causing it.
My card seems pretty stable at 900 core stock vaults which is neat. I'll try upping it tomorrow with afterburner.