today I have an unboxing with a purpose
this card is going to be used as a comparison point in another video that
um I guess by the time you see this will probably already be up this is the ASUS
eah 5770 CU core and I will explain what
all that means first of all EA means it's an isus graphics card H is
short for HD because ASUS felt the need to further shorten that and then 577 is
the actual model so it's a Radeon HD
5770 CU is the uh sign for the element
copper and core so it has a cooler with
up to 5.8 oz of copper rod and it runs
11% cooler so it means there is a copper slug CU in the cooler for this video
card and in theory that should help it to run cooler it has 1 gig of gddr5 it
supports voltage tweaking uh and I think that's pretty much allus
says about it on the front of the Box this is a direct X11 graphics card I
believe I've already unboxed a 5770 at one point but uh I no longer have that
card I needed another 5770 this one is
extremely popular at NC the store that I
work at so I figured why not have a look at this one let's see what it comes with
let's see what the card looks like and uh it should be fun so let's check out
the accessories first we've got two Molex connectors one PCI Express six pin
connector well those are all the same connector it's an adapter piece we have
one crossfire Bridge one DVI to HDMI oh rather that's
an HDMI to DVI adapter so this card
actually features native HDMI so the way it achieves dual DVI output is via that
adapter which is fine uh we have a VGA driver throw it away download the latest
from the AMD website Gra graphics card multilanguage manual okay so it has a CD
manual that you might not want to throw away and speed setup so that is
evidently a quick start guide in a number of different languages okay let's
have a look at the card itself this is big for a 5770 it's quite a large
card let go ahead and break the seal
this is something I've grown very accustomed to here's something I'm not
accustomed to uh this is a an anti-static bag that
actually opens from the top of the card rather than opening uh lengthwise I have
never seen one that does this before for a graphics card oh they're using the
sexy matte black PCB look at that you
know I haven't seen that quite this nice
since uh the XFX 8800 GT their 8800 GTS
had that that nice matte black PCB with
the matte black metal accents on it the
uh the plastic shroud on the CU core cooler is also in like a nice matte
black ASUS really nailed the aesthetic of this card they really really got it
this is a dual slot card as you can see so even though there's nothing here the
fan is dual slot width and it does use a dual PCI back plate this appears to be
an 80 mm fan you can actually see the copper slug right there and then the uh
radio in aluminum fins so it is not an
external exhaust card although you're probably going to get a little bit of incidental air flow from the fan blowing
heat out here not a ton though uh one
thing that's kind of weird is the the PC B design actually looks a little bit
backwards on this guy uh you can see all the power regulation circuitry is over
here where normally you'd find it next to the power connector at the back of the card it does use one PCIe 6 pin
power cable to power the card in addition to the slot down here
yeah that is weird like look how far back on the PCB the GPU is mounted
here's your RAM chips I'm going to go ahead and assume that there's another yeah there's another four on the other
side there and uh you've got your one crossfire Bridge right
connector piece right there like that shiny ASUS logo that's very nice see
that all right on the back we will find as I mentioned before one DVI one HDMI
so it does support dual DVI output remember it does do audio via HDMI like
all HD series cards it has a VGA connector just in case you're still
running a very old Monitor and it runs off a standard PCI Express 16x interface
thank you for checking out the unboxing
that I did today of the assus CU core
version of their radon
5770 graphics card