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

[Greebo]

Ok, Cheers
Does seem that they can be pushed a little higher than 1.35 then, I suppose without a DVM to actually measure the voltage We don't know how much over. Bottom Line as You found out is all these things seem to have sweet spots which are not at the Max and best for normal use

Same with every card, some are better overclockers than others.

I'll only ever use 1110 core for benchmarks and keep 1050 at 1.25v for day to day.

Hence the extra voltage of the asus card isn't needed even under water.

That doesn't mean that somebody won't get 1200 core with suitable cooling though.


My first 5850 was an appauling overclocker and wouldn't even go past 1000Mhz even with 1.35v.

 

[Bradmax57]

not havin much luck, used the hp utility to make usb boot disk which i thought had worked its booting from it as im getting a win98 splash screen but thats it any better way of making a usb stick bootable?

 

[Greebo]

it should give a windows 98 splash screen and then the c: prompt.

I can't remember which one I used. Try google and you will find hundreds

 

[Bradmax57]

well redid the usb stick, and it appears to have worked now flashed and rebooting into windows

Im guessing its worked as it had to resinstall the drivers

edit again

bobs your uncle 1200 core and 1400mem available thanks for your help

 

[wolvers]

50c is OK for VDDC temp right?

 

[Greebo]

well redid the usb stick, and it appears to have worked now flashed and rebooting into windows

Im guessing its worked as it had to resinstall the drivers

edit again

bobs your uncle 1200 core and 1400mem available thanks for your help

Glad to hear u got there. Just report back with your best results.

 

[Greebo]

50c is OK for VDDC temp right?

Yeah. Thats fine

 

[Bradmax57]

Glad to hear u got there. Just report back with your best results.

started off with 900/1200 will notch it up bit by bit, not sure ill try more than 1.25v tho

 

[gareth170]

50c is OK for VDDC temp right?

yeah

i would say you'll be ok up to 65-70c max for 24/7 uses

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Done some AA testing today, see what the hit was like.

Resident Evil 5 bench - 1680x1050 - maxed out

No AA = 125.9
4x AA = 105.0
8x AA = 99.5

Not bad, only a 5 and half frame drop between 4x and 8x.

 

[Retromatic]

Finally managed to get round to testing my 5850 last night, no problems here with it runs everything smooth as butter. Gonna look into overclocking for those heavy apps

 

[wolvers]

Yeah. Thats fine

What sort of VDDC temps are you getting with that block, with 1.25v?

yeah

i would say you'll be ok up to 65-70c max for 24/7 uses

Thats good then, I've got a bit of headroom to push the vcore a bit.

 

[Greebo]

What sort of VDDC temps are you getting with that block, with 1.25v?

Not sure, I will have to check. I know when I was trying to find the max of my card with the MSI bios and 1.35v the VDDC maxxed out at 50C though

 

[wolvers]

Not sure, I will have to check. I know when I was trying to find the max of my card with the MSI bios and 1.35v the VDDC maxxed out at 50C though

Nice. I'm still hoping the EK block will come down a little in price?

I noticed last night that a benchmark run of Furmark pushed the VDDCs to 60C, whereas a full benchmark run of the unigine DX11 engine only peaked em at 50C which I would think is more realistic.

I'll try it tonight with some lengthy gaming.

 

[Greebo]

Yeah that 50C was with furmark as well. With games it hovers around 40C, the same as the core.

Stupidly expensive price the waterblock are but I wanted it more for silence than overclocking but it helps.

 

[SfnX]

dont liek the idea of raising the prices of the cards, if they stayed at 200 id buy 1 at the end of the week, but its out of my budget now so just gonna wait for nvidia to release their fermi cards.

 

[Greebo]

dont liek the idea of raising the prices of the cards, if they stayed at 200 id buy 1 at the end of the week, but its out of my budget now so just gonna wait for nvidia to release their fermi cards.

And you expect them to be £200 then?

 

[wolvers]

Stupidly expensive price the waterblock are but I wanted it more for silence than overclocking but it helps.

I see a UK site has them now for 73 squids, is that what you paid?

 

[Bradmax57]

im getting more and more blank screens causing the pc to freeze, this happend before my flash so im sure its not that,think its gonna have to be reflashed and sent back psu should be more than good enough as I had a 285 before its on a clean install so i can only think the card is faulty or its the damn cat drivers

 

[Greebo]

I see a UK site has them now for 73 squids, is that what you paid?

Yep.