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| Thread ID: 104719 | 2009-11-06 04:45:00 | Radeon HD5850 sell or hold on to it? | Lizard (2409) | PC World Chat |
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| 827645 | 2009-11-07 09:06:00 | Don't worry man....they wouldn't knowingly sell a defective unit. 5850s are defective in the sense that they are not good enough to be 5870s. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 827646 | 2009-11-07 09:11:00 | I'll swap you for my 9800GTX, hasn't showed any problems so far. It's been thoroughly tested for the last two years, so it should be the perfect card for you. I'm such a good guy, I won't even charge you for the experience. I'd be freaking bouncing off the ceiling if I had a new GPU. You've got it good, go and turn Crysis up on full. |
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| 827647 | 2009-11-07 10:12:00 | There is nothing unreliable about them, the bad parts have been disabled, and that's why it has to be a 5850 (not enough pipelines/shaders/whatever to make it a 5870) Same reason why a Phenom II X3 is not a Phenom II X4 Say you had a comb and some of the teeth on one side were too short, or otherwise not good enough. You snap the comb in half and get half the amount of teeth but they are all good teeth. What you now have is a perfectly working comb, it just takes longer to comb your hair. |
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