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To test our power draw we will be using the P3 Kill A Watt. This handy little utility will show tell us how much power we are pulling directly from the wall socket. The results we will show are based total system power draw as apposed to being able to narrow it down specifically to our graphics card. It will however provide useful information pertaining to what sort of power usage to expect if you are using a comparable system at home. The results will be done with our monitor powered from a seperate socket so we get just the system draw as our results.
Our first image shows that our system without a monitor is using 137 watts of power when it is in an idle state. Not bad at all for an overclocked six core AMD CPU and the HIS 5830 as our graphics card.
When we fire up Crysis our system is now using 260 watts of total power during our game testing.
The final image was taken with Furmark running. During this test our total system power usage topped out at 289 watts which again very respectable for a system like the one we used for our testing.
They aint bad cards but the 460 has just killed them, as stated on the conclusion. still ive noticed some 5830s selling cheap locally so they might be picked up cheap in the next month, especially with the new range hitting shortly.
My brother has a 5830 and it was a good buy then, it doesnt seem such a good buy now. then again with the 460 pricing, neither really does the 5850.
Saw this in a local store for $50 off recently. might be worth it at that price. full price ? no thanks.
Interesting. I heard one of the v turbo coolers and they are pretty loud. not a great design from HIS sadly. card isnt bad. overpriced.
The 460 has killed the place for the 5830 IMHO but all and all it’s not a bad card
Wow this card looks huge and bulky compared to my gtx 460 which is barely longer than the pcie connector……just looks old.
Can somebody upload the vga bios for this model?