Thread: Asus - Radeon EAH6850

Asus has been very aggressive in the past 12 months knowing video cards at rate reserved for value-centric brands such as Palit. But this has not exaggerated quality with the firm's products producing their usual excellent caliber.

Here we are looking at the EAH6870, a suggestion ape with Asus's just voltage tweak technology. This gives overclocking as when maximizing the frequency of the GPU you normally hit a voltage wall before a thermal one mainly with Radeon cards.

In terms of bundle Asus has kept things normally with no games included. You do get the better drivers and software on disk a crossfire bridge a physical and a Molex-to-PCI-Express power adaptor.



If you are still utilizing a VGA monitor then you'll have to source your own dongle or ideally upgrade your monitor to a digital model. This lean bundle the card is sent in Asus's words single box complete with the obligatory warrior themed characters adorning the external sleeve.

The card itself follows the suggested design to the letter with the similar cooler and PCB as the AMD-provided sample. The GPU clock speed has been enlarged by 15MHz however sitting at 915MHz while the memory clock is same at 1050MHz.

1GB of GDDR5 is given as initial and the card features two DVI ports one HDMI port and two mini DisplayPorts as standard. Eyefinity mode is supported although at least one of the screens must use DisplayPort old as the card only shows two signal clock generators exactly as with the preceding HD5800 series.