ASUS Radeon HD 5870 Overclocks to 1525 MHz
The ASUS EAH5870 MATRIX Radeon HD 5870 card saw an 70-percent increase in core clock speed.
This forum post over on Xtreme Systems claims that community members Elmor and Kinc managed to overclock an ASUS EAH5870 MATRIX Radeon HD 5870 card (2GB) to a crazy-fast core speed of 1525 MHz (core), making a 70-percent speed jump over the default core speed of 894 MHz (850 MHz for the reference card).
The memory overclock wasn't quite as spectacular, cranked up to 1300 MHz, showing a rather pleasant 8.3-percent increase. The overall process remained quite stable at the 1500 MHz point, proven with the use of 3DMark Vantage and scoring P29342 points at the performance reset.
The duo kept the overclocked card cool by using liquid-nitrogen evaporators. The bench also featured an Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition six-core processor clocked at 4492.9 MHz, an ASUS Rampage III Extreme motherboard, 6GB of Corsair Dominator GTX DDR3 memory, and an Antec 1200W power supply.
The forum post displays all the validating credentials such as the bench, 3DMark Vantage screens, and CPU-Z screens. "Around 1525-1550/1325-1350 should be possible with more time on this one," the post claimed.
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Gonna be fun watching what ppl try to do with nvidia cards to try and top this haha
i bet u cud make a nice barbeque alongside the fermi cards if they were 2 b ramped up to these speeds ...
ASUS branded power splitter, gota get me one of them hope they make a UK version!
but did it actually make a huge increase in video performance? for such an expensive setup i hope its been worth it.
Gonna be fun watching what ppl try to do with nvidia cards to try and top this haha
I can almost smell the burning plastic already.
Shit, thats one hot card, in more ways than one!
Theres many times ive wished i had the balls to get into extreme overclocking, and these folks humble me even further!
Well done to them, here's to 2000Mhz!
well done for overclocking a card in a completely unsustainable fashion using liquid-nitrogen (eyeroll), here come the ATI fanboi's lol.
Damn... I was kind of hoping this was Asus officially launching a Fermi-killer. :-DWell played those boys! - I wonder what sort of framerates they got on a certain FPS made by a certain Frankfurt-based developer...
Don't you dare!
well done for overclocking a card in a completely unsustainable fashion using liquid-nitrogen (eyeroll), here come the ATI fanboi's lol.
Are the Thermi jokes starting to get under your skin? :-)
Damn... I was kind of hoping this was Asus officially launching a Fermi-killer. :-DWell played those boys! - I wonder what sort of framerates they got on a certain FPS made by a certain Frankfurt-based developer...
That's a long way of saying: "But can it.." Whoops. Nearly said it.. ;-)