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Hi guys.
Late last week I had my Asus EAH5850 delivered. I installed it no trouble, even got it working with my 8800GT for PhysX. (Had to use 190.XX drivers for the 8800 though.)
Still, i'm mightily impressed with the 5850. Playing BFBC2 i had it running at 1680x1050 at max everything. 8xAA, 16xAF, all settings set to the highest possible, and it was running smoothly. Love this beast.
Anyway. I've left the voltages at default (1088mv for high power 3D i think is default?) and I have my Core at 850Mhz, and RAM is on 1150 (4600 Effective) with no changes to anything else.
Idles at mid-high 40's, and I've not seen it go above 75 under load yet. People kid not when they say these cards are overclocking beasts.
Is this enough, or do you guys recommend I try 900 core? I think a 4600Mhz effective memory clock gives me roughly 145GB/s theoretical bandwidth... which is insane.
I used to go only nVidia.... but I have officially been turned to the guy that will go for whatever is best at the time.
Edit: Oh yeah, i used Catalyst to overclock, and modified the ini file for my overclock profile to get it to idle at 400, rather than the terribly low ~150 that it defaults to, to get around the glitching screens.
Late last week I had my Asus EAH5850 delivered. I installed it no trouble, even got it working with my 8800GT for PhysX. (Had to use 190.XX drivers for the 8800 though.)
Still, i'm mightily impressed with the 5850. Playing BFBC2 i had it running at 1680x1050 at max everything. 8xAA, 16xAF, all settings set to the highest possible, and it was running smoothly. Love this beast.
Anyway. I've left the voltages at default (1088mv for high power 3D i think is default?) and I have my Core at 850Mhz, and RAM is on 1150 (4600 Effective) with no changes to anything else.
Idles at mid-high 40's, and I've not seen it go above 75 under load yet. People kid not when they say these cards are overclocking beasts.
Is this enough, or do you guys recommend I try 900 core? I think a 4600Mhz effective memory clock gives me roughly 145GB/s theoretical bandwidth... which is insane.
I used to go only nVidia.... but I have officially been turned to the guy that will go for whatever is best at the time.
Edit: Oh yeah, i used Catalyst to overclock, and modified the ini file for my overclock profile to get it to idle at 400, rather than the terribly low ~150 that it defaults to, to get around the glitching screens.