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The Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 or the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X ?

Meridiusuk

Meridiusuk

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Hi all

I am building a new machine next week and would like to know which GFX card to get.

I have the choise of Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 or the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X as i will be building it around a asus p7p55d pro motherboard.

I want the most silent card to use as i watch a few movies on my machine and do a lot of work on my oc to and the odd bit of gamining, I am after a direct x 11 card which i know the above are.

so can anyone help on choising one ? also any reviews of these models i seem to keep finding the stck ati heatsink coolers which seme to be not to silent.

thanks
 
Meridiusuk said:
Hi all

I am building a new machine next week and would like to know which GFX card to get.

I have the choise of Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 or the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X as i will be building it around a asus p7p55d pro motherboard.

I want the most silent card to use as i watch a few movies on my machine and do a lot of work on my oc to and the odd bit of gamining, I am after a direct x 11 card which i know the above are.

so can anyone help on choising one ? also any reviews of these models i seem to keep finding the stck ati heatsink coolers which seme to be not to silent.

thanks
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The Asus HD5770 (has a standard HSF not the shroud cooler) is silent even under load, ATI have done a fantastic job of reducing the heat and noise for these card even when using standard coolers. The Vapour-X model would be a better choice if you plan to overclock it but if you buying on the basis of noise get the Asus model along with it's 3 year warranty.
 
Meridiusuk said:
I thought the asus had a new cooler it looks different to the ati stock cooler

link

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-AS

its like an egg shap ?
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This is the new stock cooler, pretty much, you can still get the old 'shroud' type cooler if you shop around as some retailors differentiate between the two and even price them accordingly. Ocuk chose not to give their customers this choice and you could get either one but most probably most stock now is of the egg variety.
 
Meridiusuk said:
just want the most quiet version out of the new cooler of the asus and sapphire
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You need a review or input from someone who has had both cards to be certain. Certainly plenty of comment in these forums that the egg coolers are pretty quiet and I would guess if thats the case that the vapor-X is not worth the extra premium as its more geared towards overclockers.
 
PakJai said:
I would go for neither, two 5850's works out to be a better buy for £30 more.
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The cheapest 5850 is £230 .The 5770 is £125 or the vapour x is £140.So i dont know what prices you are looking at :)
Or do you mean that xfire'd 5770 are better than the 5850??
 
kieves1 said:
The cheapest 5850 is £230 .The 5770 is £125 or the vapour x is £140.So i dont know what prices you are looking at :)
Or do you mean that xfire'd 5770 are better than the 5850??
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Well spotted, I thought op meant 5870 vapour :p

Yes 5770 xfired beats both 5850 and 5870. However, I wouldn't go down that route unless you are absolutely strapped on cash. One 5850 will play most games on highest settings without problems, leaving you with the option to buy another one when the prices comes down. It will double the performance of what 5770 xfired can give you.
 
PakJai said:
Well spotted, I thought op meant 5870 vapour :p

Yes 5770 xfired beats both 5850 and 5870. However, I wouldn't go down that route unless you are absolutely strapped on cash. One 5850 will play most games on highest settings without problems, leaving you with the option to buy another one when the prices comes down. It will double the performance of what 5770 xfired can give you.
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Oh rite.lol.Easy mistake with all these numbers lol :)
For what the OP has said i would think the 5770 would be fine for his needs.
But yeah if he could afford it a 5850 now would leave room to upgrade in the future :)
 
You might as well get the 'egg' style cooler, at idle you will need super sensitive ears to pick up the fan also your case fans and CPU fan will most likely be louder then the card anyway, the new breed of ATI Radeon's aren't like the old ones where you had a vacum cleaner for a fan blasting air in and around your case just to keep the card cool.

Even if you could hear it you can set the the fan speed in the CCC drivers to a lower setting, trust me unless you will need to put you ear up to case and turn off all the other fans in order to hear it. Even when playing games or watching movies the sound and music from those sources will drown out any noise from the PC.
 
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thanks i might just go for the asus card since i am getting an asus motherboard just to make sure everything is 100% compatable and since know one has reviews the new sahppire cards unlees somone can 100% these are even quieter


hopfully i will be building it next week when the fractical case comes into stock

thanks
 
I have both of these cards, the Asus is fantastic, and surprisingly is virtually as cool as the Vapor-X. The only difference is, the VX's memory will easily clock to 1400+, where the Asus struggles past around 1350. Plus the VX apparently is around 11 watts lower under stress and 6 watts lower idle due to the black diamond chokes. Both cards however are completely silent, even under load, The Asus gets to 70c, and is still silent, the Vapor-X gets to 65c totally silent, the fan never goes over 49%.
 
so at load both these cards sound the same from there fans, its just i dont sit to far from the pc and wanted a passive but know one seems to be stocking the powercolour passive version as i watch a lot of movies on my pc.

which would you get if you had the choise ? is the vapor-x more silent thn the asus

thanks
 
They are both pretty much silent tbh, even during heavy gaming I can't hear either card. Personally if you want more performance I would get the vapor-x because of the extra overclocking headroom. I can honestly say they are the best cards i've ever bought for the money.
 
thanks but not to bothered about overclocking the card as i will be using it mainly for desktop work and playing accelerated movies.

prob go for the asus card then if its just the same in sound levels as the vaper-x well silent as i am getting an asus motherboard and the asus gfx card is slightly cheaper, it should blow my ati x700 out the water lol a 5 year old card which is passive.
 
As I say both of mine are pretty much silent. If you can hear the card however, they run so cool you could turn down the fan to say 20% in CCC then it would be completely silent.
 
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