PSU Check

tidusjar · 29 May 2011 at 19:51

Hey I just bought a Sapphire HD 5770 and i was wondering will my PSU be ok? Specs in sig.

wilko49 · 29 May 2011 at 20:04

I would imagine so - the 5770 is hardly a power-hungry card. I ran mine on a 500W no-brand for a week with no apparent ill-effects.

J-FRO · 29 May 2011 at 20:06

Yeah, should be fine. Welcome to the lowly 5770 club.

Cookeh · 29 May 2011 at 20:11

Yeah, I'm barely even drawing 300W with my Phenom 955Be @ 4.0GHz and a HD6870 - which draws substantially more power than a HD5770

tidusjar · 29 May 2011 at 20:42

J-FRO said:
Yeah, should be fine. Welcome to the lowly 5770 club.

Is the 5770 Good would you say?

wilko49 · 30 May 2011 at 02:31

It's not bad, especially for the price, but it will struggle with more intensive games. Easily maxes out Source games and COD at 1920x1080, but you won't be able to max out any DX11 games, especially if you have the DX11 features enabled. Couldn't say about other games, as I have 2 cards now, but there's plenty of reviews around. Don't forget, the 5770s are good overclockers, so there's a good bit of extra performance in them. They are, however, mid-range last-generation cards, so don't expect to be maxing out those new releases.