Conclusion

General		+	-
This card is just perfect for budget gamers. For a reasonable price you get a lot of performance and the power consumption is also very acceptable with 127 Watts. Furthermore there is ASUS' DirectCU cooler which really does a great job. It doesn't only keep the card cool, it also does at a low noislevel.		2D-Very silent	Delivery		+	-
Regarding the delivery it contains everything you expect from a midrange graphics card. It doesn't matter wheter you're looking for a driver CD or a specific adaptor.		- Box - Delivery
Performance		+	-
If we look at the HD6850 as a direct successor of the HD5770 then the performance is really good. At every benchmark you can see a significant increase which make the card compete the HD5850, which originally has been launched as a high-end single-GPU card. Aware of the fact that the 6850 is a midrange product and the 5850 was a high-end card you can see that AMD changed the product names, which might be very confusing especially for unexperienced users!		- Performance
Overclocking		+	-
Overclocking this card really is fun. In this specific case it took us some time until we found the perfect voltage for this GPU but afterwards this little thing was able to hit the 1 GHz barrier. But not only the GPU is fun to overclock. It the same story with the memory. At this point a maximum clock of 1'177 MHz was possible.		- Overclocking 1'000 MHz +
Recommendation		+	-
If you're looking for a very well performing midrange graphics card that also comes with a lot of overclocking potential, then the ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU should be a perfect match.		- Budget-Gamer/Overclocker

The ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU can be bought at Brack Electronics AG to a price of CHF 209.- (est. EUR 150.-).



Author: Marc Voser, m.voser@ocaholic.ch Copy edited by: Marc Büchel, m.buechel@ocaholic.ch

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Furmark
Page 3 -Preview	Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 10 - Conclusion

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