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** Official ATI 5770 Thread **

There are XFX's available "elsewhere" which include a the usual block. Is it worth going for these over the ones above you reckon?
 
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The egg cooler is just the 5750 cooler, but is cheaper then the shroud one on reference 5770s.

Egg cooled ones should just be around £5-15 less, the card itself will be exactly the same, just with the egg cooler.

The reference cooled one was still a great buy for £125, It looks like the price points are referece cooled = £125 - £135, egg shaped = below £120.

The egg cooler looks more effective to me, as fansinks always allow lower temperatures then exhaust coolers, and my case has 6x 120mm cooling it so Im not bothered about needing to vent air out from the graphics card coolers.

The next thing I would like to do is to try unlock the upper ram limit to see if they can get to 1500 Mhz (6000 Mhz DDR5), think I need the MSI bios for that, but I dont want to bother with flashing them again.

I'll try with AMD GPU tool first.
 
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The pic OCUK have on the Sapphire HD5770 is wrong.

The one they're selling is actually the HD5770 "New edition" according to the Sapphire site. Cracking little cooler it has on it as well! Compared to my X1950XT I cant even hear the computer ha. :D
 
Personally I'd go for the XFX Cavallino, it has 3 years warranty? rather than the two year warranty on the Powercolor.

It also looks better :p
 
lewdogga said:
As i said few pages back :p Would it be better to add a second 4890 in xfire??
Or sell my card and buy two 5770s in xfire? hmmm
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It depends where your priorities lay. You probably know this yourself but 5770's in Xfire would consume a lot less power than 4890's in Xfire. But the upgrade would cost you a little more.

4890's are a little more powerful than the 5770, having said that their is supposed to be a small % gain with the next driver release.
 
Alfie said:
Will this make much difference?
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I'll answer my own question after a bit of research. The adhesive tape is a poor thermal conductor and it fails easily causing the ramsinks to fall onto system component potentially causing a disaster.

Apparently they make virtually no difference to temps either - gimmick basically. I know the 2 OCUK reviews are positive but aren't they all ;)
 
Alfie said:
I'll answer my own question after a bit of research. The adhesive tape is a poor thermal conductor and it fails easily causing the ramsinks to fall onto system component potentially causing a disaster.

Apparently they make virtually no difference to temps either - gimmick basically. I know the 2 OCUK reviews are positive but aren't they all ;)
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unless mavity is diff in their case or you move the pc about a lot they cant fall off they go on the back :)

As i said not sure about the temp diff but those chips on the back are not cooled the will be cooled only by air flow in your case. i have no problems with airflow in a antec 1200 but they have no down side unless your just dont want to spend £8
 
get to the builders merchants and get some flat bar, thermal epoxy it on, voila, ramsinks ;)

In all honesty the gddr5 chips on the 5770 are hardly warm to the touch on mine so i guess its negligable what the ram sinks would do, the vrm's are the things you need to cool well
 
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