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*** Official OMG I've finally got my 5850 thread **

Greebo said:
After doing the usually rounds of HWbot results I have finally started playing games again on my 5850 and I must say I am impressed.

At 1920 x 1200 I thought I would give NFS shift a go with lots of eye candy.

Applied full detail, 16xAF, quality mipmaps, and 8x super sample edge detect AA.

Result? A very pleasing 59fps normal dropping to the lowest of 45 fps. Well chuffed and it looks gorgeous.

Still can't drive for toffee though :(
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Good to know, cheers. I'm going to wack that on as soon as I get my 5850 (hopefully this week!)
 
ive had my powercolor 5850 for a week or so and ive had the occasional problem, not sure if there the same as anyone else, all seems fine, just general usage then all of a sudden as blank grey screen with virtical lines running accross the screen, only happend a couple of times and the only way to sort was to hit the case restart button.........

anyone else had the same?
 
These 58XX series stories are really weird. I hope mine settles in with no issue at all when I get it. Won't be for a while anyway.
 
going back a bit my old Asus board could never display the stupid asus pre post screen properly on my ATI 1800XT. Eventually after about 12 months Asus fixed it in a bios flash.
 
Asus bios flashed no problems :D

CCC limits now 1200 core 1400 memory

Asus smartdoctor works and so does MSI

Interesting for those on water is that Asus lets you overvolt to 1.5v :eek:

Plus allows core to go to 1200/1400 as well.

I have tried it but 1.5v only gave me 1110 stable (temps 40C) so really not worth the risk/voltage over 1.25v for 1050Mhz day to day.

However, mileage will vary with cards and if you get a good one then perhaps you will do better. I always seem to get poor performing cards me :(

Anyway off to post some new records for HWbot with my 1110/1300 5850 GTX295 "eat you for breakfast" card.

Have fun guys! :D
 
Hee hee. You were looking for an excuse anyway ;)

Almost broke 20k with vantage last night which is amazing for a single £200 card tbh (without physx) :D
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Nothing this morning when switched on, post screen, windows starting screen fine, a perfect boot today for some reason.
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Why do You feel the need to turn the PC off ?, It's very old fasioned thinking ! with modern PC's and opperating systems, Just set up S3 standby and You will not use any more Power when it's off ;)
 
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