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

There's something wrong with this card, I was just playing Crysis and 15 minutes into game the clocks drop from 890/1100 to standard 725/1000 and voltage drops from 1.24V to 1.00V which is obviously not the stock voltage. The game crashes and I'm mad.

What do I do? It obviously has a ****** up voltage controller. Or the BIOS is borked. Waiting on a new one from MSI may take too long and I won't be able to DSR. I like the card for its cooler but it fails miserably at overclocking even though it is advertised as having voltage control working up to 1.35V.
 
fowler002 said:
well it's finally here, the packaging has lot to be desired tho as I'd expected the graphics card box to be packed in a box with styrofoam/bubble wrap/etc but the graphic card box was only placed in a 'plastic parcel bag'(so if the delivery guy had put anything heay on to of it, or something heavy had fallen on it during transit could have damaged the card).
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Mine was same too, not great really. seems fine though
 
Just installed my 5850 and afterburner is reporting default volts as 1.164v

Just quickly bumped up the clocks 10% to 800 core and 1100 mem and run Heaven benchmark 3 times. Highest temp recorded is 52c with the fans on 40%

Had enough of all that and time to play some games.
 
I can't control the Fan speed on my MSI card, it would just stay at 55% all the time. Tried it in CCC and afterburner but none works.
removed all the drivers and reinstalled 10.11 and afterburner but still the same issue.

I have got the MSI in crossfire with a Sapphire 5850 toxic and the Sapphire takes the customer fan profile just fine.
It also looks like the MSI card doesn't clock down on idle and stays at 725mhz core speed all the time but the sapphire idles at around 135mhz.

Not sure why this isn't working, maybe I need to change the cards around and have the MSI one on top and the Sapphire on the bottom...
 
Peace said:
I can't control the Fan speed on my MSI card, it would just stay at 55% all the time. Tried it in CCC and afterburner but none works.
removed all the drivers and reinstalled 10.11 and afterburner but still the same issue.
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You have to click the button for user define and turn off auto before afterburner lets you manually control the fan speed.

My card is also 55% fan speed by default and quite noisey, only once I load afterburner can I turn it down. It's silent at around 30%
 
Chong Warrior said:
You have to click the button for user define and turn off auto before afterburner lets you manually control the fan speed.

My card is also 55% fan speed by default and quite noisey, only once I load afterburner can I turn it down. It's silent at around 30%
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I also had to disable the 'EnableUlps' in the windows registry as evertime I made changes in afterburner i got a BSOD.

Now I am able to overclock and control the fans for both my cards :D
 
I've just enabled "EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 1" in the .cfg file and although it worked OK I notice that the core clock is not downclocking itself during quiet periods. How do I get this to work again?
 
Chong Warrior said:
Just installed my 5850 and afterburner is reporting default volts as 1.164v

Just quickly bumped up the clocks 10% to 800 core and 1100 mem and run Heaven benchmark 3 times. Highest temp recorded is 52c with the fans on 40%

Had enough of all that and time to play some games.
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Hmm my default voltage is 1.1v
 
Chong Warrior said:
Just installed my 5850 and afterburner is reporting default volts as 1.164v

Just quickly bumped up the clocks 10% to 800 core and 1100 mem and run Heaven benchmark 3 times. Highest temp recorded is 52c with the fans on 40%

Had enough of all that and time to play some games.
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Did you have to unlock Unofficial Overclocking? It does seem a bit strange as 1.164V becomes default voltage when you have it disabled but then you're limited by Afterburner to 775/1125 clocks...


danceforfreedom said:
LOL

Think he was talking about the core clock ! :D
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Don't know why I thought otherwise :confused:


UltimateBadger said:
I've just enabled "EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 1" in the .cfg file and although it worked OK I notice that the core clock is not downclocking itself during quiet periods. How do I get this to work again?
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You need to set 2d/3d profiles in Afterburner, save 1 as your 2d profile with no overclocking (725/1000, default voltage) and your overclock as 3d profile.


Marine-RX179 said:
When I first unlock the voltage, it was reporting 1.164V...but when I press reset, the voltage is reset to 1.100V.
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Possibly. It definitely bumps the voltage up to 1164mV when you overclock without using Unofficial Overclocking.
 
UltimateBadger said:
I've just enabled "EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 1" in the .cfg file and although it worked OK I notice that the core clock is not downclocking itself during quiet periods. How do I get this to work again?
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Yes this is annoying, only way to get the card to down clock again is to reboot. Once I start changing the actual clock speeds they don't down clock anymore.
Mr Krugga said:
You need to set 2d/3d profiles in Afterburner, save 1 as your 2d profile with no overclocking (725/1000, default voltage) and your overclock as 3d profile.
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I'm going to try this
Mr Krugga said:
Did you have to unlock Unofficial Overclocking? It does seem a bit strange as 1.164V becomes default voltage when you have it disabled but then you're limited by Afterburner to 775/1125 clocks...
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Yes
 
Mr Krugga said:
You need to set 2d/3d profiles in Afterburner, save 1 as your 2d profile with no overclocking (725/1000, default voltage) and your overclock as 3d profile.
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Do these profiles load automatically depending on the application in question or do you need to load the profile each time I run a game for example?

Edit: Ah, it actually says automatic profiles in Afterburner. Thanks.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Huh? I underclocked the to 540MHz/1000MHz 1.000V...and have no problem using that as 2D profile...
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Wait, what? That's not how you do it :p

Set 725/1000 and standard voltage as your default profile (2d profile) and that will downclock to 157/300 at 950mV in idle.

Set whatever your overclock is as a 3d profile, that will kick in any time you launch a GPU-dependant application.

Side note: be aware that minimizing a game and trying to watch a youtube (flash) video with Hardware Acceleration on will result in an instant driver crash as it's supposed to downclock (or overclock for that matter) to 550/900 or something along these lines. That's a software limitation though.


In other news, my card is unstable with memory at 1150MHz or above. Can MSI 5850 Twin Frozr II owners check their max memory overclocks? Do the tests with core speed and voltage on default, the memory clock is independent. I think all cards use the same memory modules thus finding the max stable ones a good indicator of components quality.

Reference memory usually hits something in between 1200-1250MHz before it crashes/throttles back.
 
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I get an odd shimmer/ripple during 2d apps and in game movies well at least in the Witcher is this the drivers or because I'm running it VGA and not DVI so a clock/phase issue?

edit: The lagom monitor test site also shows my monitor to be out of phase after a few minutes of 0 gpu activity.
 
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Can someone give a me a beakdown how to overclock this.

I havnt overclocked a card in ages. So dont wana blow this up... By reading most of this thread some people are having problems.

Thanks
 
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