ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU Video Card Review

The ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU is a video card with potential. While we do think there is an inherint weakness with the "Overclocked Edition" nature and only offering 15MHz higher GPU frequency for more money, there are some things that do make it worth the money. The cooling solution and Voltage Tweak make up for the lackluster out-of-box frequencies. The cooling solution worked well; it is 18% cooler under load than a reference one. Voltage Tweak also worked well and allowed us to achieve a very nice overclock with plenty of voltage to spare. If we hadn’t run into a thermal problem, we probably could have gotten even more performance out of this GPU.