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*** In Stock Now Sapphire 5770 Vapor X ***
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Seems these might have a botched BIOS.
http://www.techpowerup.com/111186/S...es_Users_with_Just_720_Stream_Processors.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/111186/S...es_Users_with_Just_720_Stream_Processors.html
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Ok, you'll all probably think I'm crazy but I've just bought one of these, after saying I would'nt, in the TWO offer with the intention of getting another for crossfire as soon as I have the cash. So off to get my XFX 4890XT on the bay.
Or make a thread in the MM, I'm sure there is pleanty of people here that would love to buy it form you!
My mini review:
I recently bought one of these so that I could give the mrs my Asus 5770. Great card, overclocks like a dream and runs very cool. With the fan at full speed on my Arctic Cooler 64, it only reaches around 55c after a couple of hours in any game. The memory overclocks quite a bit further than the Asus, well over easily doing 1425, probably further, and the core is stable at 950 and would probably go further easily. It has a nifty blue LED (S) sign on the cooler so that it looks cool if you have a see through panel too. Overall a great card and well worth a purchase, also seems to have higher framerates than the standard 5770's, sometimes quite a bit higher.
I recently bought one of these so that I could give the mrs my Asus 5770. Great card, overclocks like a dream and runs very cool. With the fan at full speed on my Arctic Cooler 64, it only reaches around 55c after a couple of hours in any game. The memory overclocks quite a bit further than the Asus, well over easily doing 1425, probably further, and the core is stable at 950 and would probably go further easily. It has a nifty blue LED (S) sign on the cooler so that it looks cool if you have a see through panel too. Overall a great card and well worth a purchase, also seems to have higher framerates than the standard 5770's, sometimes quite a bit higher.
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Or make a thread in the MM, I'm sure there is pleanty of people here that would love to buy it form you!
Had a look at the rules and faq's for the members market and found it all a bit overwhelming, jesus you need to be a lawyer and make a mistake and you're suspended. No thanks, stuck it on the bay and its a bargain from Ayr, Scotland!
Sold it.
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Any proof of this extra FPS?
Afterall they're the same card!! but with a different cooler.
Or have sapphire been messing with the board layout again?
Well I've got a HD 4870 512MB and even at 1920x1200 its running my games fine so benchmarking aside theres no compelling reason to buy one of these just yet . . . does look cool though!
But... but... new toy to play around with > old ?
. That's another important factor !
On the other hand, the GPUs are just coming out too fast now, is it just me or since 3xxx series we're looking at something like new generation every 6months?
That's just crazy...
Tho, with the 5770 scalling, I wonder how well they scale above CF, if they scale as good in triple CF that would be very good purchase, I mean, buy one now, if it gets old in 6-12months get another for 50quid and then another for 30quid and you're looking somewhere at 6850/7770 kind of power for ~200 pounds ? haha : ). And I don't think DX12 will be coming any soon so, this looks neat.
I think within 2-3years they will need to find a new naming, 11890 will sound silly...
Taken yes, I have both versions of the card, and the vapor-x has higher framerates than the Asus had previously. If you read reviews on the cards it looks like the board may be different from the standard cards. In a few games the framerates are maybe slightly lower, but in others they are quite a bit higher (10+fps higher), even beating the 4890 when the vapor-x isn't overclocked. This review here backs up my own experiences, in COD-WAW when it's overclocked the vapor-x is close to even the 5850's performance:
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd5770_vaporx_overclock/10.htm
Obviously this is just 1 game, i'm not saying it is better than a 4890, when in over half of the games it loses out by a few frames.
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd5770_vaporx_overclock/10.htm
Obviously this is just 1 game, i'm not saying it is better than a 4890, when in over half of the games it loses out by a few frames.
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It quite surprised me too TaKeN, I assumed that all 5770's were identical, apart from the cooling on the vapor-x. However if you have any other 5770 already, it's really not worth getting rid for a vapor-x, if you were looking to buy though I would recommend the VX very highly from my own experience of them both.