5750 with 5770 crossfire vs 5870 review

[happy medium]

I 'm surprized by the results. Seems the odd ball crossfire setup is about equal to a 5870.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/asus_eah5770-powercolor_pcs_hd5750.html

Not bad, 5870 performance for 287$ shipped.

MSI 5750 for $122 shipped AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127460

XFX 5770's are 165$ shipped with free battleforge game.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150462

 

[Arkaign]

I think the extra matching 5770 would be worth it for the extra $43. Much more likely to get a matching overclock, and really be beyond stock 5870 by a decent margin.

Interesting though. 57x0 are pretty low powered, so it wouldn't take a crazy PSU to do this.

 

[happy medium]

In my case if you already have a high clocking 5750,(it will do 910,1365),could be a good cheaper alternative.

 

[Arkaign]

In my case if you already have a high clocking 5750,(it will do 910,1365),could be a good cheaper alternative.

Definitely I'm just saying for a new build I'd be more comfortable with initially matching cards. You have a killer 5750, I wish my 5770 looked worthy of overclocking.

There are two XFX versions, one with a true dual-slot cooling system (sealed w/exhaust), and one really cheap looking one, which is what I have. It's my first ATI card in a while, I got it in a trade for my old GTS250 (someone not really a gamer who did run SETI/Folding), but didn't get to pick it out as it was already purchased.

The good XFX 5770

http://www.newegg.com/Product/NewPro...-464-_-Product

The lesser XFX 5770 (the one I have)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/NewPro...-462-_-Product

In the Catalyst control center, the overclocking options are all greyed out, how do I enable them?

 

[Hey Zeus]

5830 + 5770? Hmmmm

 

[happy medium]

There is a picture of a master lock in the top right hand corner in the overdrive section.
You have to push it to unlock.

If you use MSI afterburner and change the config file, you can go past what overdrive allows.
I can max out overdrive, if I want to go higher then 870 core ,I use afterburner and the EVGA program.

I have a normal xfx with the egg cooler edition.

 

[happy medium]

5850 + 5770? Hmmmm

I was thinking 5750 and 5830 ,but you can't do 57 series with 58 series as far as I know.

 

[Jovec]

The good XFX 5770

http://www.newegg.com/Product/NewPro...-464-_-Product

The lesser XFX 5770 (the one I have)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/NewPro...-462-_-Product

In the Catalyst control center, the overclocking options are all greyed out, how do I enable them?

The "lesser" cooler is slightly better.
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=664

 

[Hey Zeus]

I was thinking 5750 and 5830 ,but you can't do 57 series with 58 series as far as I know.

Aww

 

[Hey Zeus]

The "lesser" cooler is slightly better.
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=664

Original Cooler looks better tho

 

[Arkaign]

The "lesser" cooler is slightly better.
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=664

Wow I'm really surprised. Better at cooling and lower noise.

Now if I can only figure out why my overdrive options are all greyed out.

 

[happy medium]

Wow I'm really surprised. Better at cooling and lower noise.

Now if I can only figure out why my overdrive options are all greyed out.

Did you click on the lock and it still don't work?
Download afterburner it does the same thing.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

 

[AzN]

That's not bad but for the price I would get 5850 and overclock.