Radeon HD 5770 1GB ATI Video Card XFX Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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725 words · ~3 min read
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so today on my video blog we're going to be unboxing the Radeon 5770 this is one
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of four direct X11 cards that ati's launched and we're actually going to
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show you the whole family shortly we'll be unboxing the 5750 50 on my blog next
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but not quite yet and then I'm going to do a quick size comparison against the
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5870 which is here and the 5850 so you
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can get an idea of how these cards compare to each other so uh you can see
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that our box is a little bit beat up here but we're going to find out just
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how good XFX packaging is at protecting the card during transport should it get
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banged around a little bit okay so let's
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break the seal here get this open you can see the packaging is actually quite
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similar to XFX is other 5800 series cards so you got kind of a shoe box
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style package we're going to just pull it open oh yeah I forgot about this this
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is included only with the 5770 not with
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the 50 card and not with the 5800 series cards but it is a copy of battle Forge
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so you peel that off for the product key I won't be doing that today since
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someone will want this card at some point so here we've got a quick
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installation guide which is just your basics for how to install the card and
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it's uh quite small and it shows you how to plug it into your power supply
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awesome here is the installation guide so this one covers your driver
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installation and that's about it so really you shouldn't be using this guide
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anyway you should be downloading the latest drivers off ati.com and that
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brings us to our driver installation CD ignore this download the latest drivers
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off ati.com now we've got I mean I think this
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thing's pretty cool do not disturb I'm gaming this seems to come with all of
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their gaming cards these AG you got your little door hanger not that your mom's
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actually going to pay attention to that she's going to be like no no it's time for dinner uh we have one Molex to PCI
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Express connector so that tells us that there's probably only one power plug on
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this card we've got a crossfire bridge and a DVI to VGA adapter should you
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still require that at this point and
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here we have the card itself so you can
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see that even on the beat up corner of our box which is right here it hasn't
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even gotten close to the card so there's no risk of any damage based on uh what
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we've seen from XFX is packaging here so let's get the anti-static bag out and
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there is the card itself so why don't we start let's start with the connectors
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actually so first of all you've got two DVI connectors one HDMI and one display
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port so this is the same connector set as the 5800 series cards that means you
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can plug in three monitors and use this card for ifinity this is a PCI Express
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16x card and you can see we've got again the same fan that they're using on the
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higher end card so you can expect it to be quite quiet because and this is
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another thing you'll notice about it immediately it only has one six pin
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power connector so this is a very low power consumption card compared to the
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top of the Range Gaming cards from the side you can see we've got a black with
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red trim sort of look with the ATI Radeon branding here and just like the
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5850 the back is not not covered by a black shroud and it just has a simple
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back plate and it also has RAM chips on the back unlike the higher end cards so
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you can actually see the RAM on the back should you desire that anyway I think
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that just about covers it thank you for checking out my blog on the XFX Ron
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