So today on my video blog, we're going to be unboxing the XFX Radeon
HD5750. Now, I grabbed this at the same time as the 5750, which I have on the
table next to me. And you can see there's a quick size comparison here,
but we're going to show with the 5750 later, so don't focus too much on that
there, cameraman. Uh, let's get this box open. You can see it arrived in a little
bit better shape than our 5750 box with no obvious dents. So, we won't be
putting the packaging to the test today. Uh from the front, it does not come with
any games, which the other ones do. Both of the 5800 series XFX cards come with
uh what is that game? Dirt 2. And then the 5770 comes with Battle Forge, which
actually has a DirectX11 patch available now. So, let's start getting this
package open. It's a black box just like the other 5000 series cards. We've got a
quick installation guide right on the top. So, that shows you the physical installation of the card, including
plugging in the power connector. So, this card does still require a six pin
PCI Express connector. Here's your instructions to install the Catalyst
drivers, which you should not be following because you should be downloading the latest drivers from the
ATI website. Uh, don't use this disc. It is drivers. Don't use it. Download.
Okay. So, then we have the XFX door hanger thing so that uh you can not be
disturbed while you are gaming. And then we have the accessories. Wow, that is an
empty accessory package. you have a power adapter. That was it. So, if you
wanted to use this card with a VGA monitor, you will need to have uh your
own adapter. You can't adapt the DVI one with the accessories in the box. Now,
that is a tiny card. Wow. This cooler
actually kind of reminds me of the one that was on the 4770. So, let's pull this out here and
let's have a quick look. Okay. The first thing I really like about this card is
you've got a huge fan on it. So, this is actually a dual slot cooler. And you can
see here, this is this part is just shroud, but you've got a big flower type
heat sink here. And what that means is that this does not have to spin very
fast because this is not a very uh powerful card in the sense that it
doesn't consume a lot of power. So, that means you're not going to have a lot of excess heat and this thing should run
really cool. So, first thing, let's do the back connectors. You got the
standard stuff for the 5800 series. Two DVI, one HDMI, and one DisplayPort.
You've got your standard Crossfire connectors on the top. Then you've got
at the back a six pin power connector. Then you can see that this is a standard
PCI Express 16x card. So there is your connector along the bottom. On the back
of the card itself, you can see that it doesn't have a shroud like the very
high-end ones, but it does have a protective back plate. So that's going
to hold on that cooler if in the event that it should come off when you're
shipping a system or something like that. You can see all the RAM chips on
the back. And one thing I really wanted to do was a quick size comparison with
the whole 5800 series family. So it's
actually really easy to see which one the high-end ones are versus the ones
that are the lower-end cards. So at the very top here, if I can get the
cameraman to kind of come over top and pan all the way down, I'm going to point
out which ones are which. So this is the 5870. This is the highestend 5800 series
card at the time of filming. This is the 5850. These two cards are based on
basically the same platform. So, there's a little bit of difference in clock
speed, but these are the 5800's. Now, when we step down, we've got the 5770.
This is more like a performance mid-range card that is about on par,
maybe a little bit slower than the GTX 260. And then there is a slightly step
down version of the 5770, and that's the 5750, which we're looking at today.
Thank you for checking out my video blog on the Radeon 5750.