Wednesday, March 10, 2010

VAPOR-X SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon HD 5770 - With mainstay HSF

Lately, the market was flooded with computer graphics began with the features of DirectX 11, the ATI HD 5000 series. At the beginning of its launch, graphics cards launched by their respective manufacturers still use the reference model. However, the producers seem to begin to launch non-reference models, such as this one product, Sapphire Vapor-X ATI HD 5770 Overclock Edition. 

Logo Logo is Saphhire turns blue when lit graphics card.
Although using reference PCB, Sapphire has been used to replace HSF. Like the previous series, Sapphire using their typical HSF, the Vapor-X. This HSF size does not take much space on the PCB, but the lid large HSF make this HSF looks take place.
When CHIP turn this graphics card, there is the strangeness of this graphics card specifications. The number of stream processors that should amount to 800, 720 is only available on this graphics card. 

Vapor-X series HSF Sapphire is believed to tame the heat.
After CHIP find information about it, was an early version of this BIOS has a bug that number only 720 stream processors. After CHIP BIOS update available on the Sapphire website, stream graphics processor is back to 800.
Previously, CHIP could perform the test using a BIOS that has not been updated. After the BIOS is updated, the performance of these graphics cards has increased, although not much like the 3DMark Vantage is increased from P9624 to P10128. Overall, this graphics card's performance, including satisfactory.
Although conclusions could experience problems with the BIOS, graphics card is still able to demonstrate its performance in the mainstream classroom. 


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