Installation

When installing the card I had no issues at all. For most people there will be no problems since it is not a particularly long card. In fact it is right around 8" long without the power connector, and 9" with it plugged in. This is about the width of a normal ATX motherboard, so you do not have to worry about it being too long unless you have a tiny case.

Test Setup

To test the HIS Radeon 7850, we used a test rig based on the above components. . Here are some of the benchmark software which we'll be using:

• GPU-Z
• AIDA64
  
• 3D Mark Vantage
• Unigine Heaven (DX11)
• Far Cry 2 (DX10)
  
• Battlefield 3 (DX11)
  
• Stalker: Call of Pripyat (DX 11)
• Street Fighter IV (DX 9)
  

AMD Catalyst Drivers

All tests were run using the Windows 7 64-bit Catalyst 12.3 drivers