Comments on: Sapphire Radeon HD 5770, 1 GB DDR5 Dual DVI-I / HDMI / DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 100283-2L

By: C. Kelley

C. Kelley — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:59:28 +0000

The Sapphire 5770 1Gb is a really nice card. It delivers outstanding performance for resolutions up to 1680x1050, and you can run most games at full quality at that resolution. You may have to scale back some quality settings in higher resolutions, but only by a bit. For older games you can turn on edge antialiasing and crank the AA up to 24x. The card also offers a super-sampling anti-aliasing mode, which smooths out the entire screen. It does make the graphics seem a bit less sharp, and there is more of a performance hit than standard multi-sampling AA. ATI has improved the performance and quality of multi-sampling AA to the point that super-sampling seems a bit outdated.

A single 5770 is very close to the performance seen in a 4870. The 4870 has a slight edge in performance. The 5770 has an edge with heat production and power usage, so it evens out in the end. The 5770 also features Eyefinity mode, which allows you to hook up three monitors and span the entire display across the monitors in 3d games. It also scales incredibly well in Crossfire mode with 2 cards, meeting and sometimes exceeding the performance of a pricey 5870 while coming in about 15% cheaper. The fan is surprisingly quiet as well.

One con is the new cooler, which doesn't exhaust hot air from the case like the original 5770 cooler. It pays to have a well-ventilated case.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Myllo Qre

Myllo Qre — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:02:58 +0000

Awesome vid card, i was concerned at first when i thought it would not fit my rig, but i managed to make extra space, after that my only problem was the temp, not like this card is supposed to run hot, but my cpu was creating alota heat inside, so i ripped the old 80mm fan off my old computer dusted off debree, popped in a new psu popped the card, and slapped the fan to the case side (2 80mm) and Bam! i run a cool 40c idle just like the descriptions, and 50 to 60c under load, Im enjoying this and my new rig, would buy again for Xfire :D!
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Obiora K. Idigo

Obiora K. Idigo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:31:26 +0000

I bought this card in order to replace my GTX 260 on my Home Theather PC. I just built a nice 5.1 surround sound system and i wanted to be able to play my Blu Ray’s/ games through my PC with full uncompressed sound. This card worked amazingly well for sound processing but graphics were another story.

Graphically the HD 5770 is actally a downgrade from my old GTX 260 192sp card, even at 720p resolution. My Resident Evil 5 fixed and variable benchmark actually went down about 7 fps a piece, even though i was running the game with 16X AA on the GTX 260 and only 8X AA on the HD 5770. My NBA 2K10 benchmark also went down, making the game unplayable until i lowered some settings.

This card doesn’t overclock at all, and i think it is due to the new coolers used. If u have a choice buy the version with the old cooler if u even touch this card. Plus amazon cahrged me a $6 return shipping cost even though i am a prime member. I’m back in the nvidia camp now and this will stay this way for the forseeable future.
Rating: 2 / 5