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** Official ATI 5770 Thread **

bhavv said:
Heatpipe based Fansinks are the most effective coolers you can get, they are a league ahead of the standard exhaust cooler in terms of temperatures and noise.
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I had a powercolor 4870 which used heatpipe / fan and this was a very effective cooling solution. I bought it in the summer and I don't remember the temps ever reaching much more than the mid - high thirties with the fan set to 20%.
 
Regarding the 5770 cooler, see here:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3658&p=2

Interestingly enough, we’ve been told that the Phoenix shroud isn’t going to be sticking around for long. The first wave of cards launching today and for the near future will be using the shroud, but once AMD’s vendors begin using their own designs, AMD doesn’t expect most of the vendors to stick with the shroud. XFX has specifically been named as a party that will keep using the shroud on products, but anyone else is subject to change. With a TDP of only 108W, the Phoenix shroud is probably overbuilt and certainly more expensive than vendors would like, where mainstream products come with thinner margins. We would expect the vendors that do switch to move to more traditional dual-slot coolers, likely ones that aren’t shrouded at all and would not blow hot air outside of the case
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I'm a little lost on the different coolers. Which one is considered better? - The egg or the exhaust?



And which came first the chicken or the...... :D
 
Could anyone recommend a good third party fan I could stick on my Sapphire 5770? It's pretty quiet and cool anyway but nowhere near as q and c as my 1800 XT (a little poem for ya). Just for clarity, I put a zalman on my 1800XT and from then on it was so much cooler and almost mute.
 
Tigjaw said:
Could anyone recommend a good third party fan I could stick on my Sapphire 5770? It's pretty quiet and cool anyway but nowhere near as q and c as my 1800 XT (a little poem for ya). Just for clarity, I put a zalman on my 1800XT and from then on it was so much cooler and almost mute.
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Yea, Zalman VF950:

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Completely silent too.

I used Enzotech MOS-C1 VRM sinks, one pack has 10 sinks, each card needs 9, or you can get a big pack of some green Zerotherm VRM heatsinks if you googe for them.

The VRM heatsinks remain very cool to the touch, they dont heat up anywhere near as much as the VF950 or the ramsinks are doing.

All those fan cables make my PC look a right mess.

No point buying these coolers if you get the Egg cooler though, they wont be any different.
 
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just bought the powercolour 5770 on 'this week', gutted none of the asus ones are available but oh well, it was a choice between this, a 4870 and a gtx260. heres to hoping I made the right choice.
 
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