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Now that the 6000 has become well saturated within the market, companies have begun churning out various customized revisions of the reference designs. Some variations include factory overclocks, some strap on aftermarket heat sinks, still others go t...
Great Cooling, Tons of Overclocking Headroom, Great Stock Performance, Power Efficiency, Noise Level, Bin Quality, Eyefinity support, Price...
Bland Designs...
Running with a pack of wolves is a dangerous venture at best. In this case, I’d say that MSI has just about mastered the execution. Sure the package may lack theming and yes, the card might look a little barren but really now, why should I care? It’s...
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At launch we saw that the HD 6850 was attacked straight away by partners due to AMD letting companies make their own design of the model. This is good for two reasons; the first is that come launch day we see a lot of companies offer a lot of diff...
This is just a fantastic version of the HD 6850 from every angle. First you've got the performance. Out of the box we really see a strong boost compared to the reference clocked card. Second, we've got the "Power Edition" tag which helps give us the...
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Powered by the 960-core Barts PRO GPU, the Radeon HD 6850 is AMD's stalwart in the mainstream segment. It greatly unsettled NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460's stranglehold in the US$170 - US$220 price segment, and in our initial review of the Radeon HD 6850, we f...
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tbreak.ae Updated: 2016-11-27 01:11:01
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It’s been 2 months since the launch of the AMD’s 2nd generation DX11 mid-range graphics cards. Time enough for manufacturers to really get to know Bart, time enough to figure out how to keep it’s head cool. And so MSI’s recently launched R6850 Cyclone...
Great performance, Very quiet, Temperatures are always low...
Overhead for further overclocking is low...
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It's hard to believe that AMD launched their Barts-based graphics cards over seven months ago, but even as we head into another quarter and eventually the launch of a new graphics card series, the Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 still represent excellent...
When testing the MSI R6850 Cyclone Power Edition graphics card, a few things were evident from the minute we starting running our benchmarking suite. The first was that at the factory overclocked settings of 860MHz, the R6850 was going to be faster th...
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We’ve been focused somewhat on the high end of the graphics market recently, thanks to the launch of the and . Down in the more affordable price range the graphics battle is just as fierce. Between £90 and £150 there are a host of competing cards...
MSI seems to be making something of a mockery of custom-cooled, overclocked graphics cards at the moment. Typically such a card would carry a price premium, but MSI is happy to sell these premium cards at the basic price: despite a factory overclock a...
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Microstar International (MSI) is a Taiwan-based computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1986. Primarily a designer and manufacturer of PC motherboards, MSI has expanded its business into barebones PCs, servers and workstations, communications devices...
With the R6850 Cyclone, MSI has delivered a technical masterwork with an amazing price tag. At $189.99 before rebate, and $174.99 after rebate, it is right in the middle of the pack in terms of cost, but with an 860MHz GPU clock out of the box, it abso...
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A few months ago, AMD, which pioneered DirectX 11 compliant PC consumer graphics, released its second-generation Radeon HD 6800 DirectX 11 architecture, codenamed Northern Islands. The company has enjoyed a 6 month head-start into the race for DirectX...
Exceedingly quiet in both idle and 3D when set to silent mode, Overclocked out of the box, Large overclock can make a difference, Switch to select between performance and silent BIOS, Native HDMI & DisplayPort output, Software voltage control, Support for DirectX 11...
High power draw in Bluray playback, Memory chips not cooled, Lack of 3way and 4way CrossFire support, DirectX 11 relevance limited at this time, No support for CUDA / PhysX...
Even though the naming suggests otherwise, the biggest strength of the MSI HD 6850 Cyclone Power Edition is that its fan is able to run extremely quiet when the "silent" mode is engaged via the little switch on the board. I would actually go as far and...
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It’s been 2 months since the launch of the AMD’s 2nd generation DX11 mid-range graphics cards. Time enough for manufacturers to really get to know Bart, time enough to figure out how to keep it’s head cool. And so MSI’s recently launched R6850 Cyclone...
Great performance, Very quiet, Temperatures are always low...
Overhead for further overclocking is low...
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price tag. The product is based on MSI's military class component selection including the new SFC (Super Ferrite) chokes. The card looks robust and well built. It has 6 phases available on the GPU area and another phase for its one gigabyte of memory...
With the R6850 Cyclone Power Edition, MSI is offering a very potent product, in its baseline performance it is already a decent chunk faster than the reference 6850 products available on the market and there's great overclocking headroom left as well. As...
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