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How to Overclock the ATI Radeon HD 5850

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This article shows you, in great detail, how to get the most performance out of the ~$300 ATI Radeon 5850 and blow away your old benchmark scores and FPS numbers.
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Published: 47 days 21 hours ago | Article | PC | Tech
 
 

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Pandamobile - 47 days 22 hours ago
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I've never been one to OC my GPU.

But then again I always have the flag-ship model of whatever series I buy in to and the thing will run too hot to OC :(

95 C in Crysis, f*ck yeah.

That's when I put the fans to 100% and it sounds like a blow-dryer :P
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primesuspect - 47 days 21 hours ago
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Man, this one is so worth OCing. I was in the same boat, but after seeing the crazy performance gains possible, I'm having these guys help me out. I made a thread about it on Icrontic forums:

http://icrn.tc/fe
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UPSLynx - 47 days 21 hours ago
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I too, was the same.

But once you get a taste of OC, you can't get enough.

You begin to see what your hardware is truly capable of, and it become infectious. GPUs today are especially capable of high level OCing.

But, of course, it's all fun and games until you burn your GPU out...
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STONEY4 - 47 days ago
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"95 C in Crysis, f*ck yeah."

Holy crap. Highest my cards have ever gone is 85C. Most of the time it's around 70-75C.

Anyways, those 5850s overclock pretty well. Nice preformance gains.
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champ21 - 47 days 17 hours ago
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no point over clocking..

even a mid range card plays games today at 1920*1200.

until we get better looking games (which is doubtful since consoles are kept in mind when development happens), till then even a 8800gtx will play all games maxxed out.

IMO nvidia & amd shot themselves in the foot supporting consoles.

they may have gotten initial sales from the ps3 & the 360. however in the long run consoles just hold games back. giving no reason for even pc users to upgrade.

No upgrades required from pc users = less sales for nvidia & amd for their core business.

Console sales alone are not enough to keep these companies up. Ps3 & xbox put together do not exceed 55million which is a very low figure for these companies.
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primesuspect - 47 days 7 hours ago
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This is a load of sadness. Overclocking is not "required", no.. It is desired. People who want to tweak, squeeze, go the extra mile. Those who overclock are the same who, as kids, enhanced their stock lego sets, who added stuff to their bikes, who started tweaking out their first car, who spend extra money on high volume fans and heatsinks.

It's a passion, man... Not a requirement. Live a little.
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Ozzyb - 47 days 15 hours ago
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3 - I'd like to find one...
let alone overclock one. Sold out everywhere, the XFX version that I want anyway.
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Cliff Forster - 47 days 8 hours ago
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Now thats the trick ain't it?
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