XFX CORE Edition Radeon HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card FX-777A-ZNF4

Pros: Upgraded from a 4850, so the difference was clear.

Battlefield 3 - Runs playable at 1080 custom ultra (fxaa on no msaa). At lower resolutions it is smooth as butter, I would go for a little more powerful card if you want 60fps at all times and cant deal with dipping to 30 or 40 in huge battles at 1080p+ (not a deal if you turn settings down, im talking ULTRA with no msaa or 2X)

Diablo 3, everything maxed doesnt really push it. Starcraft 2 same deal.

Other games that run great on it: Skyrim, FEAR3, Dirt3, Deus Ex, Sonic Generations, Minecraft with shader mods, etc.

Power Consumption is actually less than an ancient 4850, so I overclocked it a little with msi afterburner to 1175 gpu, 1200 memory (from 1000, 1125) with no problems. Doesn't really get very hot but I have decent airflow.

specs
Athlon X4 645 @ 3.875 GHZ
2X4GB Ripjaws 1600
Biostar A870
Antec 450watt psu
XFX CORE edition 7770
Antec 300 Illusion case

Cons: Don't notice loads of improvement on some DX9 games from a 4850, which admittedly is probably the same range of card from the 4000's.

Not a con with the card, or newegg, but amd drivers kind of lack, especially in the HDMI scaling department, you have to set the overscan to 0% manually for every resolution/timing mode that you use (my monitor is hdmi)

Newer games with MSAA on don't perform amazingly, but what would you expect.

Overall Review: First off, my card looks different than the one pictured here. Mainly in the connectors in the back, mine has 2X DVI, 1XHDMI, 1XDisplayport.

Also, another reviewer mentioned this card doesn't support crossfire, well that is just plain wrong, both the one I received and the one pictured here do. And from what I hear it scaled incredibly well, so I would grab 2 if on sale.


To sum it up, I would go for this card if on sale, if not, I would recommend a gtx550ti or 560se, if only just for the better drivers.

Pros: Attractive card, ran cool ~41C under load GW2 max settings for an hour or more. Came with a really cool badge to stick to your PC case.

Cons: AMD overdrive rating dropped from a 6440-ish with a saphire HD6670 1GB DDR5 to about 4400 with the 7770 OC!! There were horizontal lines of discoloration intermittantly passing through screen, then when the action picked up card failed: screen went black and game would eventually freeze. this happened twice still waiting on a support ticket from XFX.

Overall Review: I am running and AMD Phenom II black 3.0 - liquid cooled, 8gb (4x2gb)1066 dual channel ram, OCZ 240gb SSD for OS, drivers & GW2 only, 3rd party software on 500gb 7200 rpm hdd. I was running the saphire 4850 for ~1yr+ with no issues but it started running louder than it's normal loud and getting flickery so I decided to upgrade. Now I am sad I wasted 130.00 on the 7770oc