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Asus EAH6850 Direct CU Overclock Edition Review

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The small overclock helps boost performance a little over the reference design, however it is only a couple of frames per second. Performance in this game from AMD hardware is first class however, across the board.

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9 comments

  1. I have owned several asus cards and they always have served me well. this looks a solid purchase with a fine price. cant beat £159.99 ! (well you could, £99.99 – talk to them zardon :p).

  2. Very nice indeed. good performance all round. Quick question however, why 3 screen testing, who the hell can afford 3 monitors?

  3. Rather boring looking board, but it performs well. temps are excellent. 65c under load is more like what I want to see.

  4. Been waiting for a good review of this for a while, saw it on OCUk last week, didnt know if it was any good. I agree about the low overclocks. surely its not hard to crank the bios clocks a bit, its basically running at stock and can hit 1000mhz on the core !

  5. Excellent, been waiting for this for a while. I never buy Sapphire or XFX, only Asus. I wait 🙂

  6. Excellent all round card, doesn’t seem that quiet though which is a bit disappointing

  7. Leather case is a weird addition for a gfx?

  8. Poor clock choice for such a card, far too low

  9. price of the 6850 is good, crossfire they are killer, but bot sure it’s worth it as a really fast single card doesn’t need a profile