i've got 3x EAH5850 (it's Asus),
all clocked at 900MHz at stock voltage, getting a steady 350Mhash/s with plain poclbm on SDK2.2
Topic: EAH5850 users? (Read 2425 times)
Yes, exactly what you meant. I've been talking to local distributors and now communicating with tw to see if I could still get my hands on somemore 5850. But I'd like to find out if 5870, 5830, 6870 or what's the next best thing I could be getting if I'm not going to be providing alternate cooling.
What brand is eah???
I think the absolute best bang for the buck were those Sapphire 5850s on Newegg for $150.. ahh those were the days. Mine clock at 990 Mhz with overvolting. I think they've dried up everywhere now, as I haven't been able to find them on the Internet. But if you find any at a decent price, don't forget to send me a PM with the URL 
I have a few 5850 however since it's EOL product it's getting scarce pretty soon. Would you guys recommend I get 5870 or 5830 (or 6-series), could you add justification in terms of Power consumption, best bang for buck (price/mhash), stability (i don't have alternate cooling system, and only does normal overclocking with AMDOverdriveCtrl or ATIconfig), Re-Sale value, re-usable value (SC-II Ultra? L4D2?).
I have an EAH5850 doing 934 Mhz at 1.199 volts. I haven't done an extensive amount of tweaking on it, so higher clocks and slightly lower voltage might be possible. I do wish it clocked as high as my other cards though :/ I won't be purchasing any more because the voltage registers can't be modified by RBE, which limits what I can do with them in Linux.
looks good, you just got unlucky?
5850 are overclocking beasts but they can't all be perfect.
5850 are overclocking beasts but they can't all be perfect.
I'm using:
-k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 FASTLOOP=false BFI_INT
-k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 FASTLOOP=false BFI_INT
5850's do better with SDK 2.1 and -k poclbm. 300MH/s @ 850 is a pretty good speed.
I'm using:
-k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 FASTLOOP=false BFI_INT
-k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 FASTLOOP=false BFI_INT
make sure you're setting the right flags in pheonix.
Hello,
I got a new EAH5850 this week and i'm playing with it. No matter what i do (overvolt, underclock memory, overclock memory, undervolt, etc) i never get an stable system past 850mhz, i've read some reviews of this card and they can overclock this baby over 1ghz, but i'm stuck on 850mhz
I bought a new PSU to feed this card, 750w modular, so I don't think that is a power problem.
I tried Asus doctor, MSI afterburner, trixx, aticonfig (ubuntu), and in all of cases i end rebooting the machine.
I'm getting 330mhash/s, 850/300, stock volts, phoenix + phatk + windows xp + sdk 2.4.
Any advise to get more juice with this card?
I got a new EAH5850 this week and i'm playing with it. No matter what i do (overvolt, underclock memory, overclock memory, undervolt, etc) i never get an stable system past 850mhz, i've read some reviews of this card and they can overclock this baby over 1ghz, but i'm stuck on 850mhz
I bought a new PSU to feed this card, 750w modular, so I don't think that is a power problem.
I tried Asus doctor, MSI afterburner, trixx, aticonfig (ubuntu), and in all of cases i end rebooting the machine.
I'm getting 330mhash/s, 850/300, stock volts, phoenix + phatk + windows xp + sdk 2.4.
Any advise to get more juice with this card?
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