Quote Originally Posted by GregUMR View Post
That'd be perfect for just about every overclocker with a 5850 that isn't satisfied with his clock speeds. However I am pretty skeptical of it. I guess there could be some interference except at certain voltages, but that's far stretched I think. I'm going to test this idea with my visiontek 5850.

I've been hoping for 1050/1300 stable but I can only manage 960/1250, not a big difference but still.
Not sure how this would be perfect for people overclocking...

Anyway, I did some more tests and definitely my card behaves this way. I tested 1000MHz core at 1.225V and then at 1.237V and while there were no artifacts at 1.225V at 1.237V the artifacts started within the first 2 minutes of test. Then I increased the core frequency to 1005MHz and I managed to go 10 minutes without artifacts. Then I increased to 1010MHz and I went 20 minutes without artifacts.

So very, very strange. It could be some unbelievably weird coincidence that I keep on hitting every time, but I doubt it. It's not the first time I was able to reproduce this either.