5850 UNLOCKED TO 5870 CORE COUNT

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Hippiekiller

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Wonderful news! With a little help from my EE friend we were able to unlock my 5850 to the full core / texture unit count of the 5870!

Stay tuned will be posting screens and benchies soon along with a stability analysis.

-Hippie
 
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T2k

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Originally posted by: Hippiekiller
Wonderful news! With a little help from my EE friend we were able to unlock my 5850 to the full core / texture unit count of the 5870!

Stay tuned will be posting screens and benchies soon along with a stability analysis.

-Hippie
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This alone would kick me into an immediate purchase of a 5850... :D
 
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dude has 40 posts.

until he posts with proof...

flame him and bring out your pitchforks.
 
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Tempered81

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Originally posted by: Hippiekiller
Wonderful news! With a little help from my EE friend we were able to unlock my 5850 to the full core / texture unit count of the 5870!

Stay tuned will be posting screens and benchies soon along with a stability analysis.

-Hippie
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You could have put the "screens" right when you made this post, otherwise your words are worthless.
 
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Hippiekiller

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Hmmm we are getting crashes in nearly all games tested about 5-8 minutes in. Crysis, HL2, and Wow. GPU-Z shows all the cores and the performance is better but we cant figure out the crashing. Thinking its an issue with the modified BIOS we made. Trying to fix it. Possible false alarm.

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Tempered81

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Right, just a SS of gpu-z would tide us over from all the BS. Have ss Proof? Afaik GPUZ isn't programmed to probe SPs at an interval anyway. It's just going to say 5850:1440 or 5870:1600 when read from DB, unless your modded bios caused gpu-z to read the card as a 5870.

C'mon man. Don't mess around like this, it's driving everyone nuts.
 
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compuguy1088

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I don't believe this. Where did you get a 5850, when etailers do not have stock. Put up some pics of the physical card, and of GPU-Z. If that is done, then I'll believe it.
 
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Since this is the first batch of 5870 and 5750 yields are not yet high enough thaty they can be liberal with their binning, and chances are any chip that gets binned into the 5850 section probably has too many defective streams to run as a 5870 without bugs. I think that's why anyone trying to unlock their 5850 at this point might be able to get a reading in GPU-Z but once the defective streams are actually used in application you can bet they'll bug out.
 
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Originally posted by: compuguy1088
I don't believe this. Where did you get a 5850, when etailers do not have stock. Put up some pics of the physical card, and of GPU-Z. If that is done, then I'll believe it.
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he bought it as soon as it hit the shelves, not too outlandish, i saw instock 5870's and 5850's on new egg for about 5 hours when they came out...
 
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Ben90

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This bit is good, made me smile.

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It's a hoax, people: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=305854

that thread is just a link back to this thread... lol

Yeah i noticed the same thing and thought, "wtf how does that make it a hoax?". However, if this is a sham, then SUPER FRIGGIN LAME OF YOU.
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ECHO!
 
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