so I'm doing a quick unboxing of the powercolor Radeon 5750 the reason I went
with this one this is actually for a little build I'm doing for my parents
they uh they killed their laptop somehow or other I don't question it at a
certain point and uh they said okay well we want to go with a desktop this time
around so I said okay and they said well what's the best thing and you know my
sister wants to run Sims 3 and whatever it is the kids whatever games it is the
kids play these days you know how it is so I said okay well your best bet if
you're going to be running 7 is to go with something that features directx11
they're not heavy gaming Gamers obviously so we're looking at something
like uh a fairly low-end video card so the 5750 is the most basic out there in
terms of direct X11 video cards and the reason I went with the powercolor one
was because it was the best price and also powercolor has been doing they've
been making huge strides in the North American Market lately and so they do a
really good job of their support and it had a $10 Mr on it so if I get the Mr
then great um another reason I've gone with this is because if it ever does get
transferred to their Media Center down the line down the line which could
potentially happen the 5,000 series cards feature 7.1 audio which they are
fully set up for so I figured hey well if this is something that we can use
later on even when it's not good for gaming anymore then great actually I
should show you the quick like feature breakdown so 128bit memory interface PCI
Express 2 uh 40 Nom direct X11 stream
technology Crossfire X avivo HD enhanced UniFi video decoder 2 for Blu-ray and HD
content which is a really cool feature because it means that the card will
decode your Blu-ray content and then built in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound
which I already mentioned so it comes in a fairly plain brown box once you get
inside the retail packaging and once you open that up you will find a fairly
plain brown box inside the brown box which is not really even a box it's more
like um more like an insert so there it is okay so in terms of accessories we
get wow nothing no accessories whatsoever
with this card it is uh there must be a reason that it was the uh the least
expensive one and I guess that's it that's okay I have all that stuff on hand anyway it's not really a big deal
okay you get a quick installation guide where they show you how to plug in a six
pin PCI Express connector which this card will require and they show you how
to handle your graphics card and it unfolds a little something like that
okay comes in about eight different languages terrific and then we've got
the card itself so I'm not expecting
there to be anything stand itish about this
5750 actually it looks like that cooler is designed by Arctic cooling I'm
guessing right now I'm actually guessing but it looks like we're using a quite
large diameter fan it looks like an 80 mil fan and it's got a lot of blades so
I'm guessing it's going to spin quite slowly and rely more on the static pressure to keep air flowing through the
aluminum fins okay so you can see here we've got our standard PCI Express uh
Power connector back here that's a six pin connector as you can see and and
then you've got your power delivery circuitry you've got all the memory is
cooled actively by the fan so if I don't
know if you're going to be able to see this but if you look through the fins you can see that's where the memory
chips are so they all lie directly under
where the fan is blowing down which is really nice to see I mean memory doesn't
really need to be actively cooled these days but it's never a bad thing you've
got your standard PCI Express 2.0 interface here actually I think it's 2.1
but it is kind of irrelevant and then this is this is kind of funny there's a
512 uh Meg version or a 1 gig version so
you can see someone's put a little pen Mark right here on the card this is the
1 gig version thank you for calling that out for me guys okay on the back we will
find VGA DVI and HDMI so unlike many
other 5,000 series cards we do not have DisplayPort technology on this card
there you go there's another thing that I probably should have noticed before buying it but what are you going to do
uh we've got our two Crossfire connectors here and are you looking at
those you can see those oh okay two Crossfire connectors here and then
you've got uh four more memory modules on the back thank you for checking out
my quick unboxing of the Radeon 5750 from Power color