5850 unlock the 160 shaders?

[Zangali]

Hello guys,

I am suffering from some troubles and need to know if you al help me to find out. Do you all know about any way to unlock the Radeon HD 5850 shaders and go from 1440 to 1600?

Thanks...

[Birdie]

Hello dude,

I don't think, I can be happen that you are focusing to do because they have been cut by a laser in the factory, essentially, they have been purposely sabotaged. They are completely disabled. Commonly, you could flash the card,but within this scenario ,unfortunately there is no any method to perform like this ;

[Brunoz]

Hi,

Well, The BIOS should be compatible with the card and if you have compatible card to run with the compatible BIOS associated with the device then , it will go to the 5870 levels and will perform similarly to a 5870.

For Example : asus voltage tweak cards are notorious for this purpose.

[David23]

5850 and 5870 comes around 5% of each other at the similar clock speed, there is no voltage required yet.

AMD destroyed them since they are going bad. This is how AMD and Nvidia use up destroyed high end chip. Based out how many defects the card made renamed to a minimum GPU name. This also helps them get more GPUs per waffer.

[Archibald]

Commonly, it is cheaper to only have to mass produce one chip constructing and create minor alterations to the chips that are not up to par. fab hardwares is ****in costly and amd has had to crawl out of a slump induced by the bought of ati and the dispersion of the 2900 series.