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HIS 6850

welshdragon

welshdragon

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Thinking of getting a HIS 6850 or the MSI 5850 currently on preorder special.

Has anyone had dealing with HIS ie rma and were they any good?

Also, currently got an Asus 5770, will the 6850/5850 be a reasonable jump in performance?

I have a 22" monitor and game at roughly 1680x1050

Any help much appreciated as I have the upgrade itch.
 
Get the 5850 and clock it, that's what the card is designed for, and yeah big upgrade from a 5770. The HIS warranty is dealt with through OCUK, so any problem you would go to them .
 
Trouble is I understand the MSI 5850 isnt a good clocker from what reviews I can find?

And from other comments there would appear only 10% difference in performance sp edging towards the 6850 as newer tech. What do you think?

OCUK deal with HIS? So any time during the warranty, even after first 12 months I go to them not HIS?
 
Regarding warranty HIS give no European warranty information out at all so I would assume it would go through OCUK, you could always webnote OCUK or post in the RMA/Return & Technical Queries forum

The 68** maybe newer but they offer nothing substantially different to the 5850, newer HDMI and that's about it. Overclocking can be hit and miss, either way I believe you will easily hit 5870 speeds and for £125 that's great value, it has a fantastic cooler that blows the 68** reference coolers way for quietness and cooling.
 
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Trouble is I understand the MSI 5850 isnt a good clocker from what reviews I can find?
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From the guy that reviewed it after buying one from OcUK:

I can get 930mhz and 1300mhz on the core running stable without temp going above 65c in the latest games, and I've played for a few hours at a time on occasions.
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Looks like a damn good overclocker to me and I'm teetering on the order button for one of these!
 
I had a HIS 6850 and it was brilliant and HIS as a whole are fantastic for RMA's in my own personal opinion.

Obviously it differs from person to person but i also deal with HIS on a professional level and they are great :)

Andy
 
Really confused now, I wish one was a clear winner....

If I need to rma is it all done through the retailer for the whole of the warranty? Also, is the HIS one voltage tweakable like the asus one?
 
Oh aye, didn't even notice that! :D

Think I'll have a look in the coffers for a ton and a quarter and order one... EDF Energy took it upon themselves to take £542.60 from my bank account yesterday for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Just paid their flaming monthly direct debit 12 days ago and I'm not even in any debt to them. I'm getting it back within one working day but it has inconvenienced me to say the least, w******. :(
 
Unfortunate, they perhaps did it to all their customers land them selves a few days bank interest on an extra couple of millions^^

If your thinking of crossfiring in the da future I would got with the 6850. Most reviews i've read around suggest the scale a lot better than the 5850's, are cooler and require 1 6pin pcie connector each! http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-6850-6870-crossfirex-review/13

Was thinking of selling my 5850 on the bay, noticed one just go for more than £130, guess they still are a lot more everywhere, to pick up a 6850 as I have the intention to go xfire later next year!

If it wasn't for the xfire plans and I was staying single card I would stick with the 5850, more powerful!
 
I have no intention of crossfiring (he says). I bought this 4870 1Gb nearly 2 years ago with the intention of crossfiring it and tbh, it is only very recent (and of course DX11) games where I cannot have every single slider and setting up full whack. I'm massive into FPS multiplayers and don't care about benchmarks, synthetic tests, tessalations (cba even Googling that to find out what it means, sounds boring), whether I can attach 15 monitors to it or not I'm looking for a canny upgrade to some ageing tech, s'all :) Hell, I'm not even bothered about seeing a frames-per-second counter!

Hehe, hope you get £130 for your card ... you have seen the new price here, aye? ;) Thx for your advice fella, really appreciated :)
 
The 5850 is as good as the 6870 so clearly ahead of the 6850. The 5850 also overlooks by the same margin as the 6850 as well so there's no way the latter can catch up.

Even when the 6850 is overlooked to 1ghz on the core (with voltage tweak) it only just catches up with the 6870...
 
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I'm just a touch concerned about the 5850, and I don't know why. Don't know much about msi and didn't want a 5850 if for little extra I could have a 6850 that gives similiar performance, strange as that sounds.
 
I have almost decided...in favour of the 5850 for the solid driver support straight out the box and the additional power as I most likely won't overclock it.
 
welshdragon said:
Trouble is I understand the MSI 5850 isnt a good clocker from what reviews I can find?

And from other comments there would appear only 10% difference in performance sp edging towards the 6850 as newer tech. What do you think?

OCUK deal with HIS? So any time during the warranty, even after first 12 months I go to them not HIS?
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2 years with OcUK
 
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