SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5770 DirectX 11 100283-3L 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Ultra on StarCraft 2 at 1920x1200 with no noticeable lag, at least after overclocking, which is leads into my next pro: This card seems to have plenty of head-room for overclocking. I debated getting the new Nvidia 460 GTX instead, but now that I see I can already use the absolute highest settings on all my games on my 1920x1200 monitor, I realize that the extra money would have just been wasted. IMO, the best bang for your buck card at the moment.

Cons: No issues yet.

Pros: This is a great card. The HD 5770 is the best bang for the buck as far as high end cards go. I run HDMI to my 40" LCD HDTV and it's flawless with movies & games. Note that all the HD 5770 are identical except for manufacturer and coolers. I choose this for both, but mostly the cooler. I tested and XFX HD5770 w/ reference cooler and it had the same performance but difference temps and noise. This cooler SMOKES the reference cooler. I keep it at 60% rpm and it's silent and ideals at 50C. When I game I put it up to 100% and you ca hear it but barely, and at load it's 65-70C!!! For comparison the ref. one sounded like a jet at 100% and was only silent at 50% or lower, plus it's temps were 3-8C more on average If you want a great performing card for gaming and don't want ot break the bank, go with this. It's the best price and as far as cooling and noise it more than exceeds my expectations. See other thoughts for more explanation.

Cons: NONE! ATI does it again. To you NVidia lovers that give this bad reviews, please consider the performance to price ratio...ATI beats NVidia. Nvidia makes great products, but they are usually more expensive for less. HD5770 gives you so much like great performance, 1 gig memory, Direct X 11, and lots of connection options like built in HDMI 1.3a (that means HD sound like DTS-MA or Dolby True HD for those who don't know). I will agree that CCC is not the cleanest software, but it has everything you need and more. I set it and forget it, minus changing fan speed for gaming which takes all of 3 seconds. $130 after rebate for this powerhouse is more than worth it. I have used dozen of cards, ATI and Nvidia, and this is the best so far

Overall Review: Sapphire makes nice products, especially b/c of the cooler. this is basically the vapor X with a different plastic covering to funnel more air out of the case, and supposedly has one less heat pipe, but I can't verify as I have not examined a vapor X firsthand. Lastly, this cooler kicks b-u-t-t as far as cooling and noise. I have tons of experience and examined it closely. There is a vapor chamber on the GPU, large aluminum fins and copper heat pipes. The fan is as big as the card can have without exceeding it's boundaries, and it is very smooth spinning.

Pros: This thing takes anything I throw at it at max settings without burning itself up. -Crysis 2 -Shogun 2 -Dragon Age 2 -Obivion (yes, I still play it) -Fallout: New Vegas -Portal 2 -NBA 2K11 It it's not that loud under load, and relatively silent when idle. I recommend this card if you don't wana empty your wallet on the Radeon 6000 series, you get the most bang for your buck.

Cons: NONE.

Overall Review: Don't waste your money on those beefy cards, because this 5770 is all you need if you're a mid-range gamer.

Pros: I got this in conjunction with a Core i3 cpu specifically for playing Starcraft2 and to my surprise it runs everything smooth on ULTRA settings @ 1080p resolution. $139 after rebate is pretty darn good.

Cons: Not much

Overall Review: Use the latest driver's from AMD's website.

Pros: -Runs cool (30-35 idle, 45-55 load) -Runs FAST! -Looks awesome -Excellent cash -to- performance ratio ATI has clearly stepped up their game

Cons: -Slightly noisy (but to be expected from a high performance card) -Some minor incompatabilities: 1: directx sound driver conflict with the HDMI audio which was cleared by disabling the device, although I've heard other people with the same problem on other ATI cards, 2: had a strange problem with vlc when in OpenGL mode, simply updated VLC from 1.0.3-1.0.5

Overall Review: First off let me say that although theres a lot of text in the "cons" section, sapphire cant really be blamed for the extremely minor issues ive had with the card, and in any case they were fixed in a matter of seconds. There were alot of things that made me cautious about buying an ATI card, bad history, woeful incompatibility stories, the way they hype all of their video cards stats. But in the end I DEFINITELY got more bang for my buck than I would with an nvidia card, which until now I have purchased exclusively. Aside from the little bugs this is the best card that I have owned and by far the most cool-looking!

Pros: *Surprisingly Quiet for an upper level video card. *Plays everything under the sun. *Temps were very respectable. 45c Idle / 58.5c Load *Price / Performance Ratio win! No surprise from AMD! *Power at the wall as measured by my Killowatt P3 was not bad. 90w Idle & 197w @ Load. With average application / PC usage at around 125w. Otherwise if just surfing the web or any app that doesn't need GPU, stays around 90. Not bad at all.

Cons: *None as of yet. My client, yes a girl and a surprisingly hot one at that ;) Loves it.

Overall Review: My customer's gaming PC was built on a budget and after doing some research decided to build around the AMD AthlonII X3 440. So out of curiosity I ran benchmarks with the Integrated onboard Radeon HD3300 just for kicks. Results were sad/funny... StreetFighter4 @ 1280 x 960 was 21fps 3mark06 was even worse at just 6fps or less... just sad. Popped in the 5770 and installed the latest catalyst drivers and things improved nicely. SF4 even at 1680 x 1050 (native on my Acer 22in) and all the effects turned up netted 58.6fps. The cool thing was at 1280 x 960, the default.. it was 59.8. So it was cool to see the 5770 just not breaking a sweat at all as i cranked things up little by little. As for 3DMark06, it was cranking out well over 50fps. System Build: AMD AthlonII X3 440 3.0Ghz Biostar TF790GXB3 Motherboard 4GB DDR3 1600 Patriot Memory 1TB Hitachi 7200rpm 16MB SATA Sapphire Radeon 5770 1GB Video Card 2 x Samsung DL DVD Burners Ultra LS550 550w Power Supply w/ 130mm F

Pros: All of my old games play with new vigor, like an old man drinking red bull and popping viagra.

Cons: -Wont help me "play" with new vigor.

Pros: Very nice card , cooler has giant heat pipes and cools very well

Cons: Use the man fan to cool the mosfits and ram, no heat sinks on them, but they really don't need them

Overall Review: I have to say this is a super nice 5770 and looks even better in person.