MSI AMD Radeon HD 7770 PE Power Edition Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the MSI Radeon 7770 power Edition this
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is featuring triple over voltage which means you can overvolt pretty much any
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aspect of the video card that you could possibly want to which as you guys may
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or may not have figured out at this point is better for overclocking More
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Voltage means more clock speed as long as you have the cooling to back it up
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and this particular Q gives you a lot of different options in terms of the
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cooling so first let's go with you know what it has so it's an AMD Radeon 7770
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so you got you know your power play your power tune your Crossfire support your
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Infinity support hd3d support HDMI 1.4a
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support DOL be true HD and dgs HD Master AIO support all that good stuff 1 gig of
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memory it is a PCIe 3.0 card manufactured on the 28 nmet process
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technology which means it is extremely power power power efficient and performs
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well and it comes with dual Molex to PCI
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E6 pin adapter it comes with a fan
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that's a strange inclusion it comes with a propeller blade fan this looks an
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awful lot like a VGA fan but the confusing thing about that is that the
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video card has a fan on it now what else does it have it's got a DVI VGA adapter
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some documentation and a disc that you shouldn't use you should download the
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latest from the AMD website in terms of
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drivers and from the MSI webs in terms of utilities like MSI After Burner which
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is an awesome overclocking utility speaking of overclocking so let's open
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this card up and have a look at what is unique about the 7770 power Edition so
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all right you got your DVI you got your
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HDMI if it opens okay you got your
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DisplayPort so all that's pretty typical you got your MSI logo which is
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typical as long as the card's made by MSI if the card was made by someone else
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and it had an MSI logo that would look a a little weird okay you got your PCIe 6
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pin power connector you got your Crossfire fingers right there so you can
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connect your Crossfire bridge this card only supports two-way Crossfire it is a
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mid-range card as opposed to the 7900 series which supports multi-way
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Crossfire configurations PCIe 3.01 16x
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which is pretty much what we're used to seeing now let's get to the meat and
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potatoes of this particular unboxing so you can see we've got our nice aluminum
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fin cooling solution going on here we got a center fan which is blowing the
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air towards the fins and cooling the GPU which on side
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bam dual fan cooling solution so you
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take this little pin what a wire thing
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right here you plug it into these pins right there and then you kind of you
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know manage the cable somehow it comes with screws so you can fix it more
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permanently and there you go you now have a dual fan cooled card but wait
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there's more hold on hold on so so you can see the uh the heat sink covers the
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entire card so you can experience up to you know 5 de better temperatures by
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going with this solution now check this out if you oh right I guess I can leave
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this on if you don't mind turning it from a dual slot card see two slots into
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a triple slot card you can also do this so there Just Clips right here just
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slide it back and forth in fact you could even position the fan here if you
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wanted or here it's totally up to you so if you put it
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back in the normal position you can actually build yourself
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like um like a double cheeseburger video
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card just by slapping that on there which gives you more pressure but not
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necessarily a ton more air flow but definitely more static pressure which is
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good for pushing air through radiator fins or heat sink fins and uh but turns
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it into a triple slot card so there you go that's pretty much it that is the
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three different ways you can conf figure the Radeon 7770 power Edition in terms
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of cooling don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews
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