Overclocking Results
It has come to our attention that ATI sent cards directly to certain reviewers which sport HD 5870 PCBs and corresponding 4.8Ghz-rated GDDR5 memory. Overclocking of these particular samples will far exceed what most retail boards will achieve and is not representative of what consumers will likely experience. These cards will probably never be available at the retail level through ATI’s board partners due to the associated cost of the higher-end PCB and specific memory ICs needed.
With that said, we feel that our HD 5830 overclocked quite well which is probably due to its amazing heatsink. These results were stable through everything from FurMark to gaming benchmarks.
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