Topic: New bread of 5850's in the wild :) (HARDWARE) - page 3. (Read 5698 times)

I know somewhere local. As loads of them. I just checked with them in fact and they got loads of them. I think shapphire have started another run of 5850's due to demand, but also revised it. If you want one ill pick up and sell you them for £160 Thats P&P and finder's Fee No hidden costs, id pick it up and post it straight to you. UK only obviously. These are precious cards so im keeping them close to my chest. I can only give you my word im a honest and genuine person obviously and im new here but im sure you can see im here for the cause, and I ACCEPT BITCOINS OF CAUSE

Although, i could just have been lucky. When i have another, i will test it more more. Thinking zalman VGA cooler

But can you actually buy them anywhere?

Hey mate. Im certain they are, there all getting good temps when tested with IR thermometer. 79 to 92-83 along the line of the 230SA varient. IM CERTAIN of it But its my mates cardx in all honesty that one.But im poicking 2 up later so will have a closer inspection then Stable for 48 hours counting at 1015/300 STOCK gotta be close to a record stock

Those components you have a red box around are not VRMs, they are capacitors, and the black ones might be resistors.  They could be connected to VRMs, however you will have to take off the heatsink of the card to confirm that.

See, no interest here! Can a mod move this to hardware section at least! People talking about this stuff there at least!!!!!!

Links below pics show full image

Can someone else confirm about a new revision of shapphire xtreme HD 5850's in the wild and if so, what there able to get from the card.

My storey is i went out to make a rig of 2 systems with 4 cards each. Blew a 850 PSU on the way but i ended up for 6x 5850's (above mentioned). With a volt mod in trixx all of them bar 1 did 1000/300 @ 1.2v or less which i was more than happy with. Unusually with the 4 cards in, the 1st card needs slowing to 945 to get the best speed out of it. It bombs ober that. Very weird. Pic below:


http://imgur.com/xuDAN

Anyways, Off to get some more and low and behold, the new one as the power connectors on the side! not the BACK of the card like all thge others. Closer inspection, things are different! there are more like 24 VRM's to the 12 on the others, and there also set closer to the display ports (away from gpu heat). The code for it is 230SA at the end of the P/N, not the 000SA thats seen on all the others.

299-2E174-000SA

http://imgur.com/kHnpy

299-2E174-230SA

http://imgur.com/DGNCp

There are also changes at the back of the board but im guessing that's for the difference in the position of the power connectors.

So, I promptly whacked it in the system and saw that its not added to the shapphire trixx suite and thought o no I endevered to see what it can do at stock and i think the picture below says it all!!!!


http://imgur.com/EqiZC

Thats 1015/300 at 1.088 volts (stock). You cant volt mod these monsters yet but the double vrms seem to have solved there problem with the OC'ing, can this card beat all available cards out there.... i dare say 1100 is possible when shapphire release the trixx software for this card

If your not tech savvy, these cards run 35% faster guarenteed. This new bread is looking likie it may reach 60% and behond. This makes it by far the best card for £££ @£120

You see why i dont want post this in newbie section but i want know if anyone else has landed a gfem