Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1 GB DDR3 HDMI/DVI I/VGA PCI Express Graphics Card 100293L reviews
Band : Sapphire
Model : 100293L
Product Features :
- PCI Express 2 0 x16 bus interface
- DDR3 memory
- Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
- Microsoft Windows 7 Support
>> Great Card for Low Profile Systems
I actually bought this card to downgrade from an Nvidia 9600 GT Low Profile Low Power card I run a low profile Core i7 system yes I m crazy mainly for doing video encoding and I wanted a decent low profile graphics card in order to do some light gaming However my 9600 recently started getting unstable on me so I needed to get a replacement My older card used a DVI to VGA converter yes I have a VGA only monitor but it has component ports in the back as well for my Wii and PS3 which is why I bought that monitor in the first place and for some reason after it got unstable the native resolution of my monitor was unable to be detected and when I forced it to the native resolution it resulted in blurry areas in the middle left and middle right section of my monitor Now that I m going through a native VGA port on the Radeon 5570 the sharpness came back and the native resolution of my monitor is detected
One other thing is that this card is a standard size for a low profile card My older 9600 GT was uncomfortably within a centimeter of touching my Blu Ray drive in my case whereas this card fits with enough room to spare
Even with the downgrade in specs and the shrink in size the card performs wonderfully The Windows 7 Windows Experience Score for graphics stayed at the same place 6 8 and I m still able to play the games I played while I had my 9600 GT Assassin s Creed II runs fine at full settings Dragon s Age runs fine at full settings and I can continue doing my video work without worrying about my GPU failing out of nowhere
One thing though that I should warn anyone installing this card into a low profile system is that you are going to need a small nutsetter as well as your run of the mill Philips screwdriver in order to replace the full height bracket with the low profile one I was missing the nutsetter when I received my card and I had to continue using my old card for an extra day since I needed to get my nutsetter the next day I have never switched brackets on a GPU before so this was new to me Hopefully more people are prepared when they do what I did
>> Good card with one small flaw
Just got this card to replace an ati 4550 in a windows 7 64 bit system my Windows Experience Aero graphics score jumped from 5 3 to 6 8 Two things I like about this card are the very low power consumption and the low noise level If you have a small power supply and/or a low profile case this is in my opinion one of the best card choices If you don t need a low profile card the ati 5670 and the nvidia GT 240 will play demanding games at higher resolutions albeit with higher power consumption
The one flaw is the metal cover plate on top of the cooling fins is loose and rattles The plate simply clips onto the top of the cooling fins a simple fix is a few drops of any adhesive that will bond to metal and withstand heat I simply popped the plate off which probably does reduce cooling under maximum load so if you do this you ll want to watch your temps in the Catalyst control panel if you re pushing the card for a period of time Since I ve seen cards with almost identical heat dissipation use this same fan/fins assembly without a metal cover with no problem I m not too worried about it but minus one star
