HD5850. Get one.
Ladies and gents, I give you your reason to desire an HD5850. Stock speed on this card is 725MHz core / 1000MHz mem. This OC is achieved using only the stock cooler that came with the card.
Also - sorry for ginormous image. 1080p + 1680x1050 monitors.
Also - sorry for ginormous image. 1080p + 1680x1050 monitors.
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Haven't tried folding on it yet. Should be interesting.
Edit - in case you're interested mas0n - assuming you haven't found it yet
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=306903
The BIOS is technically for MSI, but it works fine on my Gigabyte card. I'm doing my overclocking right in afterburner after flashing it.
Second edit - side note. GRID at 1080p with all graphics settings maxed is farking gorgeous.
I can't wait for mine to get here!
The newer card is a fantastic overclocker, too. VRAM is rock solid @ 1275MHz, which is fully 100MHz higher than my first card. Core is 2.5 hours furmark stable @ 930MHz 1.150v. First card's core can only manage 875MHz@1.150v.
This new card could easily break 1GHz with an aftermarket cooler. I can get it to 970MHz with reasonable temps on air.
They can get pretty noisy when you start having to manually increase the fan speed to overclock them, but that's not an issue if you don't overclock them.
Haha congratulations! I'm jealous