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mayebaza · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:14

My Case fans became noisier due to overclocking my 5850 in this warm weather. I had enough, to cool ‘n’ quiet things down, I fitted my CM90 II Advance’s optional VGA Holder fitted with a SilenX Fan Ixtrema Pro 14dBA 80x80x15mm fan. It seems to have done the job holding down 5850 to 86 degrees max at load.

That’s another plus for the CM90 II Advance saving me the expense of VGA Cooler for the price of a fan.

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Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P, 955 BE(C2)@3.7GHz 1.425V,Geil Value 4GB DDR3-1600,
ATI 5850 1GB, CM90 II Advanced, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, 4 HDDs, Jeantech Storm 700w,
Asus Xonar Essence STX, Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX Dual Analogue + DVB-T.

Shakeel · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:19

isnt 86 a little high? i had a 4870x2 @ stock which would hit 69 at full load

PaulyD · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:46

Definately, also you have a really small overclock on your 5850 which I doubt will change temps much from standard

mayebaza · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:31

This is a first generation Sapphire 5850 which I brought for £178 which I cannot unlock the Bios, therefore that is the cards maximum overclock

Eclectic · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:38

Theres no ASUS BIOS for the 5850?

My Powercolor 5870 is flashed to ASUS BIOS and therefore unlocked clocks.

SirCanealot · 25 Jul 2010 at 22:11

mayebaza said:
This is a first generation Sapphire 5850 which I brought for £178 which I cannot unlock the Bios, therefore that is the cards maximum overclock

Use afterburner and enable unofficial overclocking!

mayebaza · 25 Jul 2010 at 22:55

Even when I use the afterburner with unofficial overclocking enabled it defaults to 775/1125, what am I doing wrong?

PaulyD · 25 Jul 2010 at 23:25

Your not moving the slider up

Boozebeard · 25 Jul 2010 at 23:33

My card hits around 80 in furmark but even playing crysis it never goes above 65 so I don't really think it's that much of a problem.

momo56 · 26 Jul 2010 at 00:12

Shakeel said:
isnt 86 a little high? i had a 4870x2 @ stock which would hit 69 at full load

Lucky. Mine hit in the 100's with a stock cooler.

mayebaza · 27 Jul 2010 at 07:42

PaulyD said:
Your not moving the slider up

I am moving the sliders but they always default back when apply the new settings. This is the price you pay for being an early adopter, newer versions of 5850 seem to be much more overclockable, it same with CPU being a 955 BE(C2).

PaulyD · 27 Jul 2010 at 07:56

Can you not flash the bios of a different card to enable overclocking?

mayebaza · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:16

I did some trawling on Goggle, it appears that 5850 Sapphires work with MSI bios but not with the Asus. This is my first successful attempt at unlocked overclocking, do I need non-stock cooling?

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Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P, 955 BE(C2)@3.7GHz 1.425V,Geil Value 4GB DDR3-1600,
ATI 5850 1GB, CM90 II Advanced, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, 4 HDDs, Jeantech Storm 700w,
Asus Xonar Essence STX, Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX Dual Analogue + DVB-T.

PapaLazaru · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:26

Lol I have been wondering what that cage is for.

Just sold a Sarkoon fan that would have fitted that as well. *facepalm*