Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Vapor-X GHz Edition Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the Sapphire Radeon HT
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7770 overclocked gigahertz Edition with their Vapor X Vapor chamber cooler it
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comes with an HDMI high-speed extension cable it has 1 gig of gddr3 memory and
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it has also one
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gigahertz one gigz edition so that means the GPU core is actually clocked at 1
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GHz or more so that's how they're able to use the AMD branding dual fan cool
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and quiet PCI Express 3.0 display P 1.2
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HDMI AMD app acceleration AMD ifinity
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2.0 which is basically more flexible software more options for ifinity and
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this uses the latest 28 nanometer manufacturing process that is the latest
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we've seen on gpus Intel is doing 22 nanometer on CPUs already which is
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craziness gddr5 memory I2 okay AMD
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Crossfire X is fully supported up to two-way Crossfire x uh Microsoft
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directx11 it better be at this point in time and it supports AMD hd3d technology
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even over HDMI um meaning you can either
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watch your movies or play your games in 3D with this graphics card as long as
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you have the uh a supported display as well as the um compatible
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middleware so unfortunately AMD graphics
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cards don't have a sort of cookie cut
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solution like 3D Vision so you have to use the
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um one of a couple different available middle Wares and then a compatible
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display so bundled accessories HDMI
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cable very cool we also have a Molex to
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PCIe six pin adapter these are handy
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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
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future use we have a DVI to VGA adapter
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okay because this is more of a mid-range gaming card I'm not going to give you
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guys too hard of a time if you have a VGA monitor still okay driver
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installation CD Sapphire graphics card quick installation guide Sapphire
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product registration okay cool oh and you can even join their gold membership
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club it's uh there's a code on the back of your product registration card there
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are benefits no looks giving me a funny look no there are benefits they do like
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giveaways and stuff oh it's cool okay so
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let's go ahead and take the plastic wrap off where we will find the Vapor X
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cooler so what is the key difference between vapor chamber and heat pipe you
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can see there's heat pipes too which is sort of fascinating are they Vapor
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Chambers they look like heat pipes give me a
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second and we figured it out so this piece down here at the very bottom is a
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vapor chamber so that spreads the heat out to the fins and these heat pipes
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right above the vapor chamber actually carry heat out to the far extremities of
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the cooler where it can be carried away by the fan so the heat the The Vapor
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chamber takes care of sort of this area with the heat pipes pulling heat away to
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these areas here that should give this actually very effective coverage in
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terms of cooling because they're using two different Technologies to move the
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heat away from the GPU core itself which is located here out to the far reaches
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of the cooler because you can have as big a cooler as you want and if you
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don't have an efficient way to move the heat to the far-reaching fins then
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basically all the Heat's been removed by the time it actually can can get over
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there and this is just doing nothing at the outsides of the fan so um yeah
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that's pretty much our look at the cooler actually this is a very large cooler so the fins go all the way from
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over here to all the way over here and you can see the thickness is actually
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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
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uses the old style placement for the PCI Express connector which is fine because
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since it's a short card you shouldn't have too much interference in terms of hard drive Bays or anything like that
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uses dual 80 mm fans for cooling as well
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as there's our PCI Express 3.01 16x slot
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and then up to four displays no problem 2 DVI a full-size DisplayPort and then
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HDMI so you can do up to actually it looks like you're going to do up to
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three with this guy 1 two 3 or 1 two 3
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or 1 two three so you can do up to Triple monitor no big deal there's the
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single Crossfire connector so that is up to two-way Crossfire on this particular
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card and I think that pretty much wraps it up for the unboxing portion of this
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particular video we are going to be doing a follow-up though on the ncixcom
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channel where we take a look at its performance as well as its quietness and
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coolness which I'm expecting both of which to be very very impressive because
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if I compare to if I compare reference Cards Against Sapphire's other
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aftermarket cooler cards using their dual x cooler I wish I could find one
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right now I'm sure there's one around here somewhere aha
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this one and this one we did some testing comparing these
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for reference cards and they just absolutely destroy them and so it's a
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similar kind of design with the heat pipes and the Dual fans and the whatnot
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