Powercolor Radeon HD 5750 1GB DirectX 11 Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so I'm doing a quick unboxing of the powercolor Radeon 5750 the reason I went
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with this one this is actually for a little build I'm doing for my parents
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they uh they killed their laptop somehow or other I don't question it at a
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certain point and uh they said okay well we want to go with a desktop this time
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around so I said okay and they said well what's the best thing and you know my
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sister wants to run Sims 3 and whatever it is the kids whatever games it is the
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kids play these days you know how it is so I said okay well your best bet if
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you're going to be running 7 is to go with something that features directx11
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they're not heavy gaming Gamers obviously so we're looking at something
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like uh a fairly low-end video card so the 5750 is the most basic out there in
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terms of direct X11 video cards and the reason I went with the powercolor one
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was because it was the best price and also powercolor has been doing they've
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been making huge strides in the North American Market lately and so they do a
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really good job of their support and it had a $10 Mr on it so if I get the Mr
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then great um another reason I've gone with this is because if it ever does get
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transferred to their Media Center down the line down the line which could
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potentially happen the 5,000 series cards feature 7.1 audio which they are
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fully set up for so I figured hey well if this is something that we can use
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later on even when it's not good for gaming anymore then great actually I
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should show you the quick like feature breakdown so 128bit memory interface PCI
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Express 2 uh 40 Nom direct X11 stream
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technology Crossfire X avivo HD enhanced UniFi video decoder 2 for Blu-ray and HD
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content which is a really cool feature because it means that the card will
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decode your Blu-ray content and then built in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound
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which I already mentioned so it comes in a fairly plain brown box once you get
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inside the retail packaging and once you open that up you will find a fairly
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plain brown box inside the brown box which is not really even a box it's more
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like um more like an insert so there it is okay so in terms of accessories we
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get wow nothing no accessories whatsoever
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with this card it is uh there must be a reason that it was the uh the least
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expensive one and I guess that's it that's okay I have all that stuff on hand anyway it's not really a big deal
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okay you get a quick installation guide where they show you how to plug in a six
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pin PCI Express connector which this card will require and they show you how
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to handle your graphics card and it unfolds a little something like that
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okay comes in about eight different languages terrific and then we've got
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the card itself so I'm not expecting
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there to be anything stand itish about this
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5750 actually it looks like that cooler is designed by Arctic cooling I'm
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guessing right now I'm actually guessing but it looks like we're using a quite
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large diameter fan it looks like an 80 mil fan and it's got a lot of blades so
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I'm guessing it's going to spin quite slowly and rely more on the static pressure to keep air flowing through the
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aluminum fins okay so you can see here we've got our standard PCI Express uh
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Power connector back here that's a six pin connector as you can see and and
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then you've got your power delivery circuitry you've got all the memory is
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cooled actively by the fan so if I don't
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know if you're going to be able to see this but if you look through the fins you can see that's where the memory
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chips are so they all lie directly under
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where the fan is blowing down which is really nice to see I mean memory doesn't
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really need to be actively cooled these days but it's never a bad thing you've
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got your standard PCI Express 2.0 interface here actually I think it's 2.1
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but it is kind of irrelevant and then this is this is kind of funny there's a
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512 uh Meg version or a 1 gig version so
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you can see someone's put a little pen Mark right here on the card this is the
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1 gig version thank you for calling that out for me guys okay on the back we will
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find VGA DVI and HDMI so unlike many
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other 5,000 series cards we do not have DisplayPort technology on this card
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there you go there's another thing that I probably should have noticed before buying it but what are you going to do
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uh we've got our two Crossfire connectors here and are you looking at
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those you can see those oh okay two Crossfire connectors here and then
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you've got uh four more memory modules on the back thank you for checking out
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my quick unboxing of the Radeon 5750 from Power color