Radeon HD 5850 not good enough?

What is your resolution? What PSU do you have? What card, a 5830, 5850, or 5870?

The resolution is 1920 x 1080

The card is a 5850

And the PSU is this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X2677A/ref=oss_pro...


The CPU is a core i7 920. Everything runs fine, the game runs fine usually, but simply trying to run a youtube video and WoW at the same time slows it down to about 40 fps. Closing youtube immediately brings it back to 60 FPS.

It just seems like playing a youtube video shouldn't slow it down that much. Even running a video file from my hard drive has the same effect.

Anything I can do about it?

That is quite odd. 60fps should be about normal, but a youtube vid should not lower it down to 40fps. Did you download all the latest drivers from ATI?

That is not the point...

Why not? Might want to listen to some clip that is easiest to find on youtube and even that will slow the game down. The main thing I wanted it for was to watch movies while playing the game, and now it's not going to work because of the slow down  

And yeah, the drivers are up to date.

40fps is not bad, but if it bugs you that much then pop another one in your machine. I do not know why it drops so much.   Do a few more tests.

hmmm

Thanks anyway donut  

edit: ok, I will try gpuz

If nothing works and I end up trying to put in another card, how difficult is it?

Do I need to get another HD 5850, or will any card work?

If your trying to play HD video on the other screen that is asking alot of a graphics card,that doesn't sound right tho a 5850 is a massive card and should be able to handle that,trying watching a video that isn't in HD or try lower the monitor resoultion down from 1920x1080,just 1 notch and see if you get a improvement.

I think it's just to much of a load for it to handle,adding another 5850 should fix it,and you can only add another ard from the 58xx sieres in order for crossfire to work.Just make sure it can fit.

First, your welcome. Second, to install another card just make sure you have another PCI-E 16 slot and 2 more 6-pin connectors.  

That's it? I should get a card in the 5800 range though, right?

Well, I haven't kept up with cards since I looked at them last year, what would you guys recommend now? Another 5850 or is there a better one now for the price?

Nevermind.

in order to crossfire with your current 5850 it is to be in the same series,meaning a 5830,5850 or 5870.Make sure that you have a crossfire compatable mobo with 2 PCI express slots, and enough power to run all of it.

I agree with dipankar's assertion. I've had similar behavior running UtraVNC at the same time as MassEffect 2. GPU clocks decided to run at clocks set for desktop. I bet Mr. Baller's problem is the card running at video settings and not 3D settings.

I wonder if flashing the BIOS to set the video speeds to be the same as the 3D settings would work....or maybe that can be done in the default CCC profile....

Well i cant see why a HD5850 cant do it if my puny old x1600pro can... i can run a 720p youtube vid on one of my 1920x1080 monitors and something that FOR its day was a killer for my card Doom3 @ 1440x900

I would have to agree with the power play option... i would try a LIGHT and i mean LIGHT OC of the card through ether overdrive or ATI tool or ATI Tray tools and see if manually setting the clock rates and locking them helps means you dont have to play with bios flashing

I think if you edit the file \users\<username>\appdata\local\ati\ace\profiles.xml" you can change the core speed for the 3 clock levels, i.e. destop, video, and 3d.

Here is the section of the file I would edit:

<Groups>
<Group name="Overdrive5">
<Feature name="TimeUnlocked" />
<Feature name="OverclockEnabled">
<Property name="OverclockEnabledProperty" value="True" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="AutoTuneSupport" />
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="85000" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="100000" /

The values in bold are the clock settings with 2 extra zeros. So you can see that at desktop you will run at 400 MHZ, at video you'll run 550 MHZ, and in 3D you'll run 850 MHZ. I would just change 55000 to 85000 and see if that works.

*note: adjust the memory setting as well if it isn't 1000. My system might not be identical to yours.

Awesome, thanks a lot for the tips guys. It would be so much better if I could avoid spending money on another card, so I will try these out in the morning and see what happens. Thanks for the help.

40fps is not bad at all. You don't need an upgrade. Really what percentage of the time are you watching movies and playing?

I just upgraded my power supply and graphic card
and i have lower fps with radeon 5850 than Nvidia Geforce gt9600

my speccs
Motherboard
Manufacturer FUJITSU SIEMENS
Model MS-7379VP
Version 4.0
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model P35/G33/G31
Chipset Revision 10
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model 82801GB (ICH7/R)
Southbridge Revision A1
Temperature 29 °C
BIOS
Brand American Megatrends Inc.
Version V9.0Q
Date 05/15/2008

graphics
Monitor
Name W2252 on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Current Resolution 1680x1050 pixels
Work Resolution 1680x1020 pixels
State enabled, primary, output devices support
Monitor Width 1680
Monitor Height 1050
Monitor BPP 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency 60 Hz
Device \\.\DISPLAY1\Monitor0
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Memory 1024 MB
Memory type 2
Driver version 8.791.0.0

CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Cores 4
Threads 4
Name Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Code Name Kentsfield
Package Socket 775 LGA
Technology 65nm
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model F
Extended Model F
Stepping B
Revision G0
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
Bus Speed 266.3 MHz
Rated Bus Speed 1065.3 MHz
Stock Core Speed 2400 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 266 MHz
Average Temperature 38 °C

and running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit.

please help me.