Hello forum,
I was excited for buying a new Sapphire 7850 1gb, as I have been 4 years with my 9800gt, and I thought it would be a good upgrade. And it was. I always knew from reviews that 7850 overclocks pretty well. My particular card reached only 1140MHz on the core and 1250(so disappointed) on the memory. Anything higher than that would result in a blue screen. Exception made disabling HT on my core i3 2100, in which 1300MHz on the memory would be stable. Dunno if this is actually the case. I was even more disappointed by the OC results in gaming. 28% gain in core clock to result in 10-11% increase in gaming.
Here are some results of Metro 2033 benchmark. I only disabled Hyper-threading out of curiosity, and it seem to have stopped the stuttering and even gave a tiny bit of extra frames. I wouldnt count on that because even with 10 runs of the benchmark the results were inconsistent.
Another thing I tested was 3dMark 11.
Stock result: p5128
OC result: P5731
Same goes with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. benchmark and pretty much any other game.
The rest of the specs are:
h61 Asus motherboard
4gb Corsair 1333 RAM
FSP 400w PSU
My question is what can I improve to get better scores, memory clocks and what should my next upgrade of the PC be. I was planning on either upgrade to z77 + core i5 in the not so near future or change the platform to AMD fx-6300. Also is there a way to unlock voltages on a 1gb card like some people do with 2gb cards by flashing to an ASUS bios.
Thank you for the time spared!
I was excited for buying a new Sapphire 7850 1gb, as I have been 4 years with my 9800gt, and I thought it would be a good upgrade. And it was. I always knew from reviews that 7850 overclocks pretty well. My particular card reached only 1140MHz on the core and 1250(so disappointed) on the memory. Anything higher than that would result in a blue screen. Exception made disabling HT on my core i3 2100, in which 1300MHz on the memory would be stable. Dunno if this is actually the case. I was even more disappointed by the OC results in gaming. 28% gain in core clock to result in 10-11% increase in gaming.
Here are some results of Metro 2033 benchmark. I only disabled Hyper-threading out of curiosity, and it seem to have stopped the stuttering and even gave a tiny bit of extra frames. I wouldnt count on that because even with 10 runs of the benchmark the results were inconsistent.
Another thing I tested was 3dMark 11.
Stock result: p5128
OC result: P5731
Same goes with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. benchmark and pretty much any other game.
The rest of the specs are:
h61 Asus motherboard
4gb Corsair 1333 RAM
FSP 400w PSU
My question is what can I improve to get better scores, memory clocks and what should my next upgrade of the PC be. I was planning on either upgrade to z77 + core i5 in the not so near future or change the platform to AMD fx-6300. Also is there a way to unlock voltages on a 1gb card like some people do with 2gb cards by flashing to an ASUS bios.
Thank you for the time spared!