ASUS Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) EAH5850 DirectCU TOP/2DIS/1GD5 Video Card w/ Eyefinity

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Not a lot to say about performance that hasn't already been mentioned. It's surprisingly light (much lighter than the GTX 260 it was replacing). Not seriously a negative, but it will only fit in the Thermaltake Armor MX+ if you eliminate the difficult drive cage. Fortunately, I was in a position to pick up a couple adapters and mount the drives in the optical bays.

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Real excellent cooling and quiet as it says. 35 degree on idle and 55-59 on full load with the fan @ 25%. With this infant you can run crysis at max settings every little thing on @ 50 fps in 1680 X 1050. And Metro 2033 directx 11 max settings @ 40 fps. Nothing. My develop:Asus Sabertooth X58I7 930 + CM Hyper N 520Asus EAH5850 Direct CU TopG-Skill ddr3 1600 9-9-9-24Corsair TX 750wWD caviar black 640gb 32mb cacheHAF 932

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Coming from a radeon HD2600 pro, this card is a Huge improvement. My technique genuinely started showing its age following playing the new AVP game. With the 5850, it plays that with all the graphics settings on high, at my monitors native resolution 񢃀x900)I'm tempted to throw ARMA two at it just to see it squirm, but am enjoying playing all my existing games at their maxed out graphics settings. Big! I had to move my harddrive to make room in my little-ish mid tower case.None of my 8-pin power connectors fit the 8-pin power port on the card. But the card is operating fine on 2 6 pin pci-e energy connectors.I won't try to overclock it configured like this though. For the cost and efficiency it's challenging to beat this card. Every single review I read just before it's obtain just reinforced the reality that this was THE card to have. The reality that it will overclock readily and has the selection of crossfire need to keep it competitive for the forseeable future.

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None Installed the card and as soon as I fired up the laptop or computer, it made a loud whining noise.Newegg gave me and RMA and produced the return/exchage method painless.

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Outstanding create good qualityFan is good and actually does cool particularly nicely (quiet as nicely until you get over 60% speed but thats not genuinely required)Lots of computing power without having consuming a ton of wattage/ampsCan obtain 95% of 5870's speed. Received a faulty model, black flickering in 3ǚ games i played. ASUS tech support speedily mentioned to RMA, i had a challenging time believing this due to the reality that a couple games worked fine (Just Trigger 2 and Assassin's Creed 2) but other games (SC2, ARMA 2) would get black flickering and hang. I assumed it was a computer software/driver concern. Tried reseating the card, jumping about to unique driver versions, changing PCI-E power cables. No luck. ASUS couldn't offer you any suggestions or bios updates or really ANYTHING to help me isolate the trigger. Other folks have had this issue and end up RMA'ing to only have the problem take place once more. I understand there is usually a chance of a DOA, soon after ordering parts for 10-12 computers over the years I was very lucky in not really receiving any poor pieces of hardware apart from an old HIS X800XL where two cards had bad fan controllers. I'm rating this a 3 instead of a 1 for that reason. Nevertheless I'm rating it a 3 due to the reality that ASUS tech support was much less than useful. I don't know if this is a frequent concern with these cards (seems to be if you google this problem). I was at least expecting to talk to a skilled on ASUS' side nevertheless he mentioned to send it back with no other suggestions leading me to think its a prevalent problem.If my next version comes in I will post a five egg assuming it works.

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i had wonderful fps i installed it and perfect when i opened up any sort of game the driver would become unresponsive uninstalled the drivers numerous times and reinstalled similar challenge took the card out sent it to asus for them to "fix" it got it back 2 weeks later take out my old video card and install it get all excited and the difficulty is still there i don't know if its a driver problem or a video card issue but this is no longer worth my time i guess i'll chop it up to a waste of cash and use my 4850