Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X HD 5770 1 GB DDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 100283VXL
Submitted by admin on Monday, 4 January 2010One Comment
- PCI-Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- GDDR5 memory
- Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
- Microsoft Windows 7 Support
- ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays
Product Description
Now, more people than ever can experience real innovation in DirectX® 11 gaming with ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series graphics processors. Loaded with advanced technology, these GPUs have the power and premium features you need for fully immersive gameplay. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do … More >>
Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X HD 5770 1 GB DDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 100283VXL
Runs Dragon Age: Origins at max quality 1280×1024 flawlessly. Runs quiet, couldn’t hear it over my PCP&C 750 power supply even at load, GPU-Z log says fan never went over 40%, 33C idle 54C load, ~25C ambient in a big case.
This model came with an older BIOS, only gives 720 stream processors. Sapphire’s website has a PowerPoint download that has links and describes the process where you can format a USB thumb drive to flash the card to the new BIOS. If you can follow instructions or have flashed a BIOS before, you’ll be fine. 800 stream processors show up for me now. I also downloaded the driver (only) from the ATI site, 9.12. Haven’t installed CCC yet - I want to evaluate the card further.
Card looks good, the Sapphire logo is backlit by a blue LED, and the PCB is black, matches my MB. A bit shorter than the 8800GTS.
This card is replacing an EVGA 8800GTS 320 OC, which was fitted with a Thermalright heatsink and fan. I was able to run Dragon Age: Origins with the old card at average quality with no AA, and it stuttered in taxing situations. Thanks EVGA, a great card, still works fine, but nVidia currently can’t match the value of the 5770, and this is an excellent version. The heatsink and fanshroud seem well-designed, and I anticipate some overclocking capability without needing a different cooling setup. If you want to run some of the great new games, and have an older card, I recommend this card as an upgrade.
The system: DFI Lanparty DK X48, 2GB Geil 4-4-4-12 DD2 @960, 2 x WD250 in RAID0, E8500 @3.6Ghz, LianLi PC7077 (huge case, lots of air), Windows XP SP3 32bit.
I ordered it around 2pm, chose next day delivery (yay Prime!), and I got it at 10am the next morning. Thanks Amazon!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
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