Sapphire Radeon HD6770 FleX 1 GB DDR5 2DVI/ HDMI/ DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card 100328FLEX
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- Chipset: Radeon HD6770
- Core Clock: 850 MHz
- Video Memory: 1GB DDR5
- Memory Clock: 4800 MHz
- Bus: PCI-Express 2.1 x16
- Support Microsoft DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and OpenGL 4.1
- Support Microsoft Windows 7
Sapphire Radeon HD6770 FleX 1GB DDR5 2DVI/ HDMI/ Display Port PCI-Express Video Card
Sapphire Video Cards
Sapphire Radeon HD6770 FleX 1 GB DDR5 2DVI/ HDMI/ DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card 100328FLEX
List Price: $ 174.47
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bought in Aug 2011,
I have been using this as a replacement for an aging 4850 which seemed to be raising case temps more as of late.. The specs on this card are not much different than the aforementioned 4850 with the exception of better multi monitor support. That was the greatest reason for the purchase of a newer gpu. This “Flex” version has included the cable adapters to make multi monitors a quick setup without finding and ordering at no telling the cost of connectors you may need. Sapphire is the only vendor offering the Flex package. Currently on idle it’s at 36*C (with side panel off for unrelated cleaning purposes) and the highest I’ve seen it is at 51*C while gaming extensively on 3x 22″ Gateway monitors. It’s in a M/59 NZXT case full of fans, working as well as could be expected. It does require 2 slots, a single pci 6pin connector, and is 7.25″ in length. As always download the latest drivers from AMD site instead of disk, for best results.
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Affordable Quality,
I’m on a tight budget and have been needing to upgrade my graphics card for quite some time. This product was affordable but also mid-high quality. I play a variety of games that are fairly graphically intense and I’m running them all on the highest settings with 60 fps and it looks great.
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Some problems.,
I remember back in the day, if I wanted a video card that wasn’t going to have any glitches I would get an ATI card. In fact, the ATI based XFX 5670 card I’ve been using the past couple years has worked well for me with only choppy playback of HD camcorder video as an issue. This was not a big issue as I edit HD video to DVD anyway. I bought this Sapphire card as an upgrade to use my desktop computer as a home theater PC. I planned on driving not only the desktop monitor but also 2 HDTVs with the video sent to each device individually one at a time. In other words only one display would be in use at a time. This flex card seemed like the perfect card for that.
There were several problems however. First minor problem; when the computer boots the video card would default to one of the HDTVs instead of the DVI port with the monitor on it to display the POST messages. I wouldn’t get any display on the computer monitor until the Windows drivers loaded, unless I unplugged the HDMI connectors to the TVs.
Second minor problem; the image on the computer monitor would occasionally twitch, or jerk like a flicker. This really bugs me as it shouldn’t do that. It would happen during boot, about a minute after boot and then every so often. An XFX HD6770 video card that I also tried out also did this.
Third problem that’s pretty big if you plan on using this card with video. Same as my HD5670 card that I’m replacing both HD6770 cards that I tried just can’t seem to keep up the frame rate with occasional jerks in the video playback like it’s dropping frames. The Sapphire was better on the computer monitor but dropped frames sent to the HDTVs. I think it may have been related to the HD copy protection.
The Asus GTX 560 Nvidia card I have now has had none of these problems. The Nvidia software even has a page to verify that HD copy protection is working properly.
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