MSI Radeon HD 6850 Cyclone PE Power Edition 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

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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
Great performance, Very quiet, Temperatures are always low.

Cons:

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
Overhead for further overclocking is low

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Last revision on February 20, 2012

Reviewers Liked

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
Great performance, Very quiet, Temperatures are always low

Reviewers Didn't Like

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
Overhead for further overclocking is low

Expert reviews and ratings

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...

By Bit-tech.net on April 01, 2011

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...

By techPowerUp! on January 20, 2011

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...

By Tbreak.com on December 29, 2010

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?...

By Overclockers Club on June 05, 2011

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...

By Neoseeker on May 26, 2011

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...

By HardOCP on February 08, 2011

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...

By Guru of 3D on December 24, 2010

Die beste Radeon HD 6850 soll es sein. Kein leichtes Ziel für die MSI Radeon HD 6850 Power Edition OC, aber auch kein unerreichbares. Von der Geschwindigkeit her sieht es auf jeden Fall schon einmal gut aus, denn im Durchschnitt rendert der...

By ComputerBase on February 03, 2011

Unsere nachfolgende Gesamtwertung bezieht sich ausschließlich auf den aktuellen Status Quo und das aktuelle Testfeld und spiegelt in der Zusammenfassung unsere Erfahrungen im Test wieder. Man gelangt mittels Klick auf die einzelne Wertungskategorie...

By HardTecs4U on January 17, 2011

L’ultima prova da noi effettuata riguarda le temperature di esercizio adoperando diversi regimi rotativi; i valori sono molto buoni considerando che al 25% la ventola ha un regime di soli 950/960 RPM e risulta in pratica inudibile:(Temperatura...

By hdblog.it on January 06, 2011

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