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To test our power draw we will be using the P3 Kill A Watt. This handy little utility will show tell us how much power we are pulling directly from the wall socket. The results we will show are based total system power draw as apposed to being able to narrow it down specifically to our graphics card. It will however provide useful information pertaining to what sort of power usage to expect if you are using a comparable system at home. The results will be done with our monitor powered from a seperate socket so we get just the system draw as our results.
The first image below shows that our system without a monitor is using 143 watts of power when it is in an idle state. Not bad at all for an overclocked six core AMD CPU and the HIS 5850 as our graphics card.
When we fire up Crysis our system is now using 253 watts of total power during our game testing.
The final image was taken with Furmark running. During this test our total system power usage topped out at 284 watts which again very respectable for a system like the one we used for our testing.
Just to make sure there is no confusion, these numbers are not the power draw of the HIS 5850 we are testing, the values are the total amount of power the full system (minus monitor) is consuming.
Looks like a good board, HIS seem to be making a name for t hemselves lately
Good review, shame they didnt allow voltage increases on this card, it would overclock much better.
HIS arent very well known here, but they have a full range of cards for sale and they seem to be well designed.
Cant seem to see it for sale locally here for some reason.
Not a bad looking card, but the 5850 seems to be a bit of a not so good deal now with the 460 out.
Seems a good card, but nothing specatular.
Anyone think this is a good buy now,. HD5850 is a little overprice now I think, well it is here.
HIS, never heard of them 😉
Well this seems a solid, if someone bland card by todays standards. noise levels are decent and performance is good, overclocking is poor though and thats what tends to sell specific 5850s.
Powercolor make a good 5850 which seems quieter and a little better value, but this is good too.
I like this card seems to be competitively priced in Europe.
Shame about the voltage support, it would have possibly reached 5870 performance if it handled it.