HD5850 Owners Thread

i wanna put that thing on my new system.. which i'm about to put together... is this thing the BEST deal for 250 dollars ? i'm taling about HD5850

 

Best bang for the buck in its price range.

 

Definitely a better overall deal. After all, the HD5870 would've translated into a 5850 with a new Phenom II CPU for the same price tag.

 

well i've red a few reviews and seems like GTX260 is faster... But i guess you get Dx11 with it...

 

HD5850 is nearly twice as fast ^__^

I've had both cards so i would know

 

ahhh i messed up! i was talking about 5770.... me stupid! sorry

 

finally got my order for a HD5850 for $240, should be coming in monday or tuesday. I can't wait to voltmod and overclock the baby, do you guys think from 1.088V to 1.16V would be a good enough voltmod?

 

gestuga12 : it depends on gpu, some need only small increase, others need higher in voltage.

 

Since my last post, I've:

-flashed to the unlocked MSI bios
-completely uninstalled/cleaned drivers and reinstalled the ati-opencl-beta-driver-v2.0-beta4-vista-win7.zip drivers

The idle clocks were looking fine (400/1000), UNTIL I installed MSI Afterburner 1.20...then they promptly went down to 157/300, and the flickering started again. I can't seem to find a way to override these idle clocks using Afterburner alone. I've played around with all the application settings, XMLs, and can't get a 2D clock profile to work...it won't budge from 157/300. The 3D clock profile works fine.

So now I'm using a CCC profile to handle all the clocks, and have Afterburner handling the voltage and fans...everything seems fine.

 

I got my ASUS 5850 yesterday and so far, outside of the flickering issue, I must say I am very pleased! I got past the flickering by setting a 2D profile in AfterBurner. This also keeps the card from sounding like a jet engine when I'm just in windows and not playing games.

I ran FurMark in stability test mode for about 2 hours with the clocks in the screenshot. Topped out at 79C - not bad at all.

My results below:



GPU-Z is showing the clocks I have for my 2D profile.

 

nice score superfire,, low voltage too
this card is great

 

Can I flash the unlocked BIOS safely in Windows, using atitool run through command prompt? What will happen?

Can't seem to get a DOS boot-CD working as it should, don't have an USB stick.

edit: By the way, can't dump my BIOS using the latest GPU-Z. Got a Sapphire 5850.

 

If you try it under windows, it will yell that it need dos mode.

 

Crap, okay. Anyone that flashed using a DOS CD? Can get into DOS just fine, but never access my files that I included on the ISO, nor access my harddrives through there.

Would be nice to find one that worked.

Edit: Yay, success! Used Hirens BootCD and then ntfsdos.exe inside of that. Worked fine. Flashed now and it seems to be working fine

 

What's the highest memory clock you guys have achieved? Anyone over 1300mhz?

 

My Sapphire 5850 is getting delivered today. Upgrading from an EVGA 8800GTS 320mb that died on me after less than 2 years of use. I was planning on upgrading anyways, but the card dying just reinforced the need. Can't wait to get the new card installed!

 

Not much possibility, unless you find a way to increase voltage on memory.

 

Just got my 5850 today, put the overclocking bios on it, can get 900 core 1200 ram with 1.2 voltage. is that a good overclock or can I go more and is 1.2 quite high for the voltage.
:cheers:

 

That is quite decent, I use 1.2v with the same clocks as well and it is just fine.

 

When my new PSU arrives tommorrow I'll be gunning for 900/1200 1.2V as well. Seems safe and just about enough.