welcome to my unboxing of the Sapphire Radeon HT
7770 overclocked gigahertz Edition with their Vapor X Vapor chamber cooler it
comes with an HDMI high-speed extension cable it has 1 gig of gddr3 memory and
it has also one
gigahertz one gigz edition so that means the GPU core is actually clocked at 1
GHz or more so that's how they're able to use the AMD branding dual fan cool
and quiet PCI Express 3.0 display P 1.2
HDMI AMD app acceleration AMD ifinity
2.0 which is basically more flexible software more options for ifinity and
this uses the latest 28 nanometer manufacturing process that is the latest
we've seen on gpus Intel is doing 22 nanometer on CPUs already which is
craziness gddr5 memory I2 okay AMD
Crossfire X is fully supported up to two-way Crossfire x uh Microsoft
directx11 it better be at this point in time and it supports AMD hd3d technology
even over HDMI um meaning you can either
watch your movies or play your games in 3D with this graphics card as long as
you have the uh a supported display as well as the um compatible
middleware so unfortunately AMD graphics
cards don't have a sort of cookie cut
solution like 3D Vision so you have to use the
um one of a couple different available middle Wares and then a compatible
display so bundled accessories HDMI
cable very cool we also have a Molex to
PCIe six pin adapter these are handy
even if your graphics card comes with one of these and you don't need it you might as well just hold on to that for
future use we have a DVI to VGA adapter
okay because this is more of a mid-range gaming card I'm not going to give you
guys too hard of a time if you have a VGA monitor still okay driver
installation CD Sapphire graphics card quick installation guide Sapphire
product registration okay cool oh and you can even join their gold membership
club it's uh there's a code on the back of your product registration card there
are benefits no looks giving me a funny look no there are benefits they do like
giveaways and stuff oh it's cool okay so
let's go ahead and take the plastic wrap off where we will find the Vapor X
cooler so what is the key difference between vapor chamber and heat pipe you
can see there's heat pipes too which is sort of fascinating are they Vapor
Chambers they look like heat pipes give me a
second and we figured it out so this piece down here at the very bottom is a
vapor chamber so that spreads the heat out to the fins and these heat pipes
right above the vapor chamber actually carry heat out to the far extremities of
the cooler where it can be carried away by the fan so the heat the The Vapor
chamber takes care of sort of this area with the heat pipes pulling heat away to
these areas here that should give this actually very effective coverage in
terms of cooling because they're using two different Technologies to move the
heat away from the GPU core itself which is located here out to the far reaches
of the cooler because you can have as big a cooler as you want and if you
don't have an efficient way to move the heat to the far-reaching fins then
basically all the Heat's been removed by the time it actually can can get over
there and this is just doing nothing at the outsides of the fan so um yeah
that's pretty much our look at the cooler actually this is a very large cooler so the fins go all the way from
over here to all the way over here and you can see the thickness is actually
there you go there you you can have a look at this thickness under the Shroud here so this is a pretty short card it
uses the old style placement for the PCI Express connector which is fine because
since it's a short card you shouldn't have too much interference in terms of hard drive Bays or anything like that
uses dual 80 mm fans for cooling as well
as there's our PCI Express 3.01 16x slot
and then up to four displays no problem 2 DVI a full-size DisplayPort and then
HDMI so you can do up to actually it looks like you're going to do up to
three with this guy 1 two 3 or 1 two 3
or 1 two three so you can do up to Triple monitor no big deal there's the
single Crossfire connector so that is up to two-way Crossfire on this particular
card and I think that pretty much wraps it up for the unboxing portion of this
particular video we are going to be doing a follow-up though on the ncixcom
channel where we take a look at its performance as well as its quietness and
coolness which I'm expecting both of which to be very very impressive because
if I compare to if I compare reference Cards Against Sapphire's other
aftermarket cooler cards using their dual x cooler I wish I could find one
right now I'm sure there's one around here somewhere aha
this one and this one we did some testing comparing these
for reference cards and they just absolutely destroy them and so it's a
similar kind of design with the heat pipes and the Dual fans and the whatnot
and the hooa don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings
reviews and other computer videos