SAPPHIRE 100284L Radeon HD 5750 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

Reviewed By: on 2/7/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: The card has proven to be a very nice replacement for my 8800gts 640mb. It may be a bit underpowered for higher resolution gaming, but for my needs (1680x1050) its perfect. wow runs perfectly with all settings maxed. Crysis runs quite well at the "very good" visual setting. Mass effect 2 looks gorgeous with the card.

My idle temps hover around 30c and the card doesn't break 45c under load. I raised the fan speed to 65% during a long gaming session and ever after 4-6 hours on full load the card didn't break 45c.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I ran driversweeper and popped in the install cd and the card installed perfectly.
While the card doesn't use much power, it still requires a quality psu to run properly without risk of damage.
If your temps are breaking 50c you should probably take some measures to improve the airflow in your case.

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good

Reviewed By: ddb on 2/6/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: directx 11, not a giant size card 1gb ddr5

Cons: upgraded from sapphire HD4850 512 ddr3 and my windows experience score went from a 7.4 to 7.2 also this card runs hotter than the 4850 with no obvious improvement. the fan on the 4850 only kicked in when playing games. but the 5750 seems to always be on. in my opinion the 4850 is a better card

Other Thoughts: if you are not running dual monitors save some money a get the 4850

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Pleasantly Surprised

Reviewed By: Paul on 2/5/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Looks awesome, performs awesome, and runs cool (at least cooler than what I'm used to). Just idling its sitting at 46C, and in games it was hitting about 60C-ish, which is fine by me! I'm used to 80 or 90C. No bluescreens, no crashes, no artifacts (knock on wood), and it runs everything I normally use rather well. A fine upgrade from my eVGA 8600GT

Cons: Updating the drivers was sort of annoying because I got some weird error from the download, so I suggest downloading the display drivers and Catalyst control center package separately as opposed to the single package version (you'll have the option to do so on the website). Won't run WoW at max everything (1280x1024) much farther than 30fps in high traffic places, BUT I must say that's moreso WoW being poorly optimized than the card being at fault, especially since in instances and raids everything runs smoooooooth, and i'll definitely hit 50-70fps on average. The fps may seem a little slow for WoW, but like I said its smooth, no severe or weird jerkyness like I got with my old card.

Other Thoughts: After reading more reviews and some websites regarding this card after my purchase I was scared because apparently the 5700 series cards have some known issues, so I was extremely worried. However the card came in, I installed it, updated the drivers, and started playing my games and browsing the web and so far i've been running it for nearly 3 days now with no crashes or anything. I'm very happy I bought this card. I only wish I could have sprung for the 5770, but what can you do.

In case anyone is wondering, i'm currently running:

Windows 7 ultimate x64
MSI P6N SLI Platinum
4gigs of G.skill PC6400
Intel core 2 duo E6320
and some powersupply I got from Best Buy years back, 500W+ and i think its from coolermaster, i don't remember exactly.

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