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today I have an unboxing with a purpose

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this card is going to be used as a comparison point in another video that

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um I guess by the time you see this will probably already be up this is the ASUS

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eah 5770 CU core and I will explain what

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all that means first of all EA means it's an isus graphics card H is

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short for HD because ASUS felt the need to further shorten that and then 577 is

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the actual model so it's a Radeon HD

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5770 CU is the uh sign for the element

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copper and core so it has a cooler with

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up to 5.8 oz of copper rod and it runs

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11% cooler so it means there is a copper slug CU in the cooler for this video

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card and in theory that should help it to run cooler it has 1 gig of gddr5 it

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supports voltage tweaking uh and I think that's pretty much allus

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says about it on the front of the Box this is a direct X11 graphics card I

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believe I've already unboxed a 5770 at one point but uh I no longer have that

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card I needed another 5770 this one is

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extremely popular at NC the store that I

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work at so I figured why not have a look at this one let's see what it comes with

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let's see what the card looks like and uh it should be fun so let's check out

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the accessories first we've got two Molex connectors one PCI Express six pin

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connector well those are all the same connector it's an adapter piece we have

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one crossfire Bridge one DVI to HDMI oh rather that's

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an HDMI to DVI adapter so this card

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actually features native HDMI so the way it achieves dual DVI output is via that

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adapter which is fine uh we have a VGA driver throw it away download the latest

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from the AMD website Gra graphics card multilanguage manual okay so it has a CD

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manual that you might not want to throw away and speed setup so that is

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evidently a quick start guide in a number of different languages okay let's

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have a look at the card itself this is big for a 5770 it's quite a large

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card let go ahead and break the seal

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this is something I've grown very accustomed to here's something I'm not

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accustomed to uh this is a an anti-static bag that

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actually opens from the top of the card rather than opening uh lengthwise I have

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never seen one that does this before for a graphics card oh they're using the

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sexy matte black PCB look at that you

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know I haven't seen that quite this nice

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since uh the XFX 8800 GT their 8800 GTS

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had that that nice matte black PCB with

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the matte black metal accents on it the

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uh the plastic shroud on the CU core cooler is also in like a nice matte

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black ASUS really nailed the aesthetic of this card they really really got it

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this is a dual slot card as you can see so even though there's nothing here the

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fan is dual slot width and it does use a dual PCI back plate this appears to be

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an 80 mm fan you can actually see the copper slug right there and then the uh

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radio in aluminum fins so it is not an

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external exhaust card although you're probably going to get a little bit of incidental air flow from the fan blowing

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heat out here not a ton though uh one

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thing that's kind of weird is the the PC B design actually looks a little bit

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backwards on this guy uh you can see all the power regulation circuitry is over

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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

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power cable to power the card in addition to the slot down here

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yeah that is weird like look how far back on the PCB the GPU is mounted

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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

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side there and uh you've got your one crossfire Bridge right

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connector piece right there like that shiny ASUS logo that's very nice see

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that all right on the back we will find as I mentioned before one DVI one HDMI

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so it does support dual DVI output remember it does do audio via HDMI like

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all HD series cards it has a VGA connector just in case you're still

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running a very old Monitor and it runs off a standard PCI Express 16x interface

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thank you for checking out the unboxing

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that I did today of the assus CU core

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version of their radon

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5770 graphics card