The ASUS EAH5830 DirectCU is a beast of a video card with both ASUS’ Voltage Tweak Technology and its new DirectCU GPU cooler. We will see if we can push her to ATI Radeon HD 5850 performance levels in Assassin’s Creed II, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Aliens vs. Predator, DiRT 2, and Crysis Warhead.

Today we are going to doing our evaluation a little differently. While we usually use at least two other video cards in our comparison, today we will only be using an ATI Radeon HD 5850. Our third video card will be our ASUS EAH5830 DirectCU overclocked with Voltage Tweak. We will overclock and squeeze every bit of performance out of this video card that we can and see how that compares to the ATI Radeon HD 5850. Our goal is to see if the HD 5830 can achieve performance close to HD 5850. Of course we will be using our out-of-box ASUS EAH5830 DirectCU too for comparison. To avoid confusion from now on we will refer to our overclocked with Voltage Tweak ASUS EAH5830 DirectCU as ASUS EAH5830 DirectCU OC. We will finish off the evaluation as we normally do with some temperature and power testing.

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