Afterburner v.1.3.0 adds official support of voltage adjustment for ATI Radeon HD 4770 and 5770, and some MSI future products. Please give us suggestion and feedback, thanks!
MSI Download:
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
Afterburner v.1.3.0 (2009-10-19)
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Actually MSI will release Afterburner 1.3.0 on Monday which support 5770 voltage control. (Sorry for 5750, it doesn't support voltage control from hardware level, but MSI will launch own design card soon to support it).
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=305908
Because asus smartdoctor sucks, the voltage output of smartdoctor is unstable, you can check some discussion on xtremesystem, so everybody is using MSI afterburner on all brand 5870/5850 now.
Recently ASUS announced a new graphics card call "EN9800GTX+ Dark Knight", I don't know if its name violate the copyright of Batman Begins 2, but I'm pretty sure ASUS steal the thermal design from MSI.
ASUS EN9800GTX+ Dark Knight
MSI R4850
Besides upside-down mounting, black...
We all know the temperature issue of 4850, here is the method to lower the temperature by reflash new BIOS!
FILE:http://cid-26aaa81850481d85.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/%E5%85%AC%E9%96%8B/msi%20modified%20bios.zip
I used MSI R4850, but you can use on any refrerence 4850
Original...
50$ budget is too low for the games he wants to play, and for that price range , GeForce 86xx is not so good either.I suggest your friend wait for newer GeForce 9500GT with paying a little more.