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Unfortunately when using the Catalyst Control Center we are limited to 850mhz and we wanted to try and push the card further. We therefore decided to try the new beta of the Sapphire TriXX software which worked great.
The overclock we achieved was very impressive. A 27.7% increase on the core – reaching 1009mhz and 18.3% on the memory, reaching 1183mhz. Temperatures only increased by 5c under Furmark (load), which was equally as impressive. This was achieved with voltage at 1300mV.
The Asus card will accept voltage past 1.4V but we found that the gains were only 20mhz more and the temperatures would hit over 90c which is not advisable long term. Obviously every card will overclock to different levels, but we were impressed with this product and the headroom on the core.
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).
Very nice indeed. good performance all round. Quick question however, why 3 screen testing, who the hell can afford 3 monitors?
Rather boring looking board, but it performs well. temps are excellent. 65c under load is more like what I want to see.
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 !
Excellent, been waiting for this for a while. I never buy Sapphire or XFX, only Asus. I wait 🙂
Excellent all round card, doesn’t seem that quiet though which is a bit disappointing
Leather case is a weird addition for a gfx?
Poor clock choice for such a card, far too low
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