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***The Official MSI 5850 Twin FrozeR Thread***

I bought 2 MSI 5850 TF. Neither of them had a CF bridge. Luckily my old Sapphire 4890 had 1 in the box.
 
Well my replacement should be here tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Still can't believe the 50% fan speed, at boot or without drivers its about 20% which matches the bios profile.
 
I really want this card :/
Damn not having a job!!

I am thinking of waiting it out and saving for it.
And in that time there might be a limited price reduction.
 
while we on the subject of xfire.sli bridge, are they the same thing i.e 1 bridge works for both xfire/sli ??

and no didnt get 1 with mine, but sure i have a bridge that came with my MB, hence i asking the question ,
 
BISH422 said:
while we on the subject of xfire.sli bridge, are they the same thing i.e 1 bridge works for both xfire/sli ??

and no didnt get 1 with mine, but sure i have a bridge that came with my MB, hence i asking the question ,
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The one bundled with your mobo is most likely a SLI bridge. AMD doesn't include Crossfire bridges with boards, they bundle them with graphics cards.

And no, they're not the same.
 
Has anyone tried the MSI Afterburner 2.1 beta 6?

Whats interesting is that it detects the default voltage as 1.1 rather than 1.164.

It will be interesting to see if those of you can get the same overclocks with 0.064 of a drop in voltage, if so it means that afterburner 2.0 was over reading and it might explain why so many had to use much more voltage than the referance ones.
 
i did notice that if i pressed reset on the Afterburner 2.0, it set the voltage to 1.1, although it showed voltage at 1.164 the first time i opened it.
 
So I sorted my problem, not sure on the actual fix though. Just fiddled with some settings in BIOS where some values were set to AUTO.

Current stable clocks at default volts: Core 800, Mem: 1000.

If it doesn't crash after a few hours of BC2 I just notch it up a little.
 
BISH422 said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned already or not, what would you say is MAX volts for 24/7 use with this card ??
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I have heard that it's ~1.300v. For my stable 900MHz core, I'm running 1.264. Max temp so far is 63 degrees. Mind you, when not gaming, I switch back to 725MHz @ 1.100v.
 
BISH422 said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned already or not, what would you say is MAX volts for 24/7 use with this card ??
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1.1V is default, 1.15V is what the GPU is designed for, 1.21V should be safe, 1.265V is pushing it, 1.3V is the max for the voltage controller of this card.
 
Ive managed 890 at 1.23, going beyond 890 seems to mean increasing the volts too far for little gain. Although the max temp ive seen with kombuster is 66c.
 
Not had chance to test anything FPS wise, i need to get BF2 BC patched. Uningine went up just over 100 points though, that was 890/1125.

Ok quick test on crysis bench mark. Very high settings, 1680/1050 res, 3 passes.

725/1000
min - 18.71
avg - 38.14
max - 44.45

890/1125
min - 19.04
avg - 41.21
max - 52.33
 
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So, here's my final results (after much, MUCH tweaking and testing!). Decided that I was gonna stick with 1.264v tops and my final values are as follows. One other point - in my Silverstone RV02 case, the max core temp I've seen at this voltage, at sustained 100% load, is 65°C.

Afterburner
Voltage 1264
Core 900MHz
Memory 1200MHz

3DMark Vantage
18,289 P Score
18,547 GPU Score
17,559 CPU Score

3DMark 11
4,443 P Score
4,159 Graphics Score
7,114 Physics Score

Final conclusion - £125 very well spent!
 
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