QUOTE(hadoupening @ Dec 6 2009, 06:00 PM)
Hey guys, just curious: What is the OC potential of a HD5850 with stock cooling?
With MSI Afterburner 1.4.1 you can OC more than the CCC limit of 775mhz.
I OC'ed my HD5850 up to 900mhz @ 1.15v with reference cooler. Stable on Furmark.
Benched it on 3DMark Vantage:
To answer your question, the HD5850 can be potentially OC to 1ghz with stock cooling, but very noisy because you must pump up the fan up to 60%+ with LOAD temps @ 75c-80c on Crysis Warhead and Furmark...
It's already been done here in LYN by couple of guys really. (including me

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But nowadays I've done no OC'ing whatsoever when gaming because this card is good enough to play most of the games available today without any OC'ing.....
This post has been edited by JoBigShow: Jan 13 2010, 03:30 AM