Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme - Fan Noise Comparison using TriXX OC Utility

http://hitechlegion.com/reviews/video-cards/9605 -- For the full review and benchmarks

The Sapphire HD5850 Xtreme is a low-cost and powerful DX11 option. The Sapphire HD5850 Xtreme uses an original cooler design that is significantly quieter and cooler than the loud blower-style fan used on stock HD5850 designs. The Sapphire HD5850 has 1440 stream processors and 72 texture units with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, able to handle even the latest DirectX11 games. Although the HD5850 Xtreme edition comes with one less DVI port and one less CrossFireX connector, it is priced below $150 USD, offering huge savings compared to regular HD5850 video cards while out-performing an NVIDIA card at the same price range.

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[Homebrew2all]

Would you recommend the fan to be at 100% all the time? Because I actually don't mind my computer noise at all (it has all the fans on high haha)

Or would you not because it wears the fan off?

Btw great review man! And I know a store online that's selling this for about $150 :D so ima try to get it, it smokes the GTX 275 right?

[HiTechLegion]

@Homebrew2all

You don't need to run it at 100% at all as it doesn't get too hot, keeping it at auto is more than sufficient.

Fans are typically rated at ~5.6 years of constant 100% use so it shouldn't really wear out before the card does.

As for 5850 vs 275, 5850 is faster than a GTX 285 and has DX11 and more features.

[FauveProd]

Actually your website is quite instructive, thanks a lot!

[DaTatscher]

@cheatdude78 i think not, but you can use this utility for every AMD Card. So take this and have fun with overclocking :D

[rukaras]

@Metin2antharos 500watt psu for noob power supplies! if u buy a 450Watt Enermax Be Quiet Corsai or Antec etc thats okay!

[rukaras]

I cant change the Vcore on MSI Afterburner thats shit.... i dont like TriXX

[cheatdude78]

Is there a xfx version of those utility?

[3SAUGAT]

@HiTechLegion Saphhire trix only shows my inbuilt graphics card on my mother board but does not show my 5850 please help, with any other overclocking utlitity my 5850 card shows up but i really need sapphire trix since its the only one that can change the voltage for the card.

[Homebrew2all]

@HiTechLegion Thank you for the great response! And btw, i did go to your website to read the full review, and WOW i was amazed of how good this card is! im going to try to get it as soon as i can (currently, i've had a gtx 275 for about a year, so im planning on getting this card to replace my gtx 275 and use the gtx 275 on another gaming build (: )

oh and i subscribed(:

[MrSinanabi]

@Metin2antharos ^^ its really nice better then a nvidia 460 gtx ^^ how much u pay ?

[MrSinanabi]

@Homebrew2all

this card is nice i buy one tomorrow it beat most nvidia cards ;)