XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

Amazing Card

Reviewed By: X13_Y on 2/9/2010

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

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Eye-infinity, DX11, low power consumption, high core clock, can be oced like mad, dual dvi + hdmi ports, great cooler, runs cool..etc...

Basically runs anything I throw at it at max or near max at 1680x1050
- Modern Warfare 2
- Bad Company 2 Beta
- Bioshock
- TF2
- Mass Effect
- Mirror's Edge

Cons: When you are using dual dvi, theres an issue with the drivers where overclocking will cause the 2D core clock to go to 157MHz. This causes screen flickering and tearing on one or both of the monitors you use. I've looked up fixes and tried to use a custom profile on Catalyst + MSI Afterburner but to no avail. Hopefully ATI will come out with a fix in the next driver release

Other Thoughts: Win7 Professional 64-bit
AMD Phenom II 955 @ 3.515 GHz
Arctic Cooling 64 Freezer Pro
2x2GB G.Skill Pi Black @ 4-4-4-12 timings, 800MHz
GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H Mobo
XFX ATI Radeon HD5770 at stock clocks
Corsair 450VX - 450W PSU
1x640GB, 1x500GB WD Caviar Black
Antec 900 (edition 1) Case
2x Acer 20" LCD Monitors

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Reviewed By: law on 2/9/2010

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

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: easy fast install and the new 10.1 drivers on win7 64bit are working flawlessly. previously had a 1950xt i borrowed when my nvidia card went bad and the 1950xt benchmarked at a little over 6k in 3dmark06 and this card more than doubled that at 13k. a slight OC to to 900/1300 got my scores to 14k+. I've got more room to OC but don't have the need to.

Cons: won't scratch my back

Other Thoughts: actually, if i took the card out, i could get it to scratch my back where i otherwise wouldn't be able to reach =P

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Reviewed By: on 2/9/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: This card is sweet! The Eye-Infinity worked perfect with my 52" LCD big screen and two HDMI 23" screens (had to purchase DVI to HDMI adapter and DisplayPort to HDMI adapter though). I don't have a game I can't crank to 11 with this card. Been playing COD Modern Warfare 2 and it is just beautiful! Not to mention all of the overclocking utilites ATI provides.

Cons: I had to send my first one back after the random crashes. XFX was good on diagnosing it and replacing it quickly. This was quite sad and cost my an extra $8 in shipping and missing my card for 2 weeks. The fan does get a little loud when set at 70% speed but that's to be expected to keep the GPU cool pumping out the sweet graphics.

If you happen to have the crash to desktop or diplay driver issues it is very possible your card could be bad such as mine was. This was a laborous process where to make sure the card was bad first I had to update my BIOS, run MemTest +86, and document what caused the crashes (which was everything). I did bump up the speed and it lessened the crashes but they still happened so I finally sent it in and they said it was faulty after testing.

Other Thoughts: I was reading the reviews and they say CrossFireX doesn't stand up to SLI yet and in only one test did the CrossFireX beat em. But newer drivers are coming out which should be fixing this - especially with two of these nice cards - which I plan on purchasing soon.

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