Best Radeon HD 5770 Card?

[JustLookingOk]

Hi guys,

I was wondering what you think the best Radeon HD 5770 Card is, or are they all fairly equivilent? I have a budget of around $100-$120. Here's six cards that I'm looking at. I've listed them in (roughly) the order they're rated on newegg. Any thoughts?

SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100283VX-2L Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-898-_-Product

SAPPHIRE 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-873-_-Product

HIS H577FK1GD Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-338-_-Product

GIGABYTE GV-R577SO-1GD Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-327-_-Product

XFX HD-577X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-462-_-Product

XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-447-_-Product

Thanks in advance for your time!

 

[OCGuy]

Personally I would go with the first one.

 

[Towndog]

good price after rebate

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...2-_-tigeremail

 

[toyota]

out of curiosity what does the rest of your pc look like and what res are you wanting to play at?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

how flexible is your budget?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814162058

 

[OCGuy]

OK I take that back, I would go with what bunny just posted. Nice deal!

 

[JustLookingOk]

Great, thanks for all the super fast responses guys -- please keep them coming! I'll certainly look into that one bunny mentioned ($116 after MIR is within my budget).

A few other quick things to mention: 1) I won't be using SLI/Crossfire, just a single card. 2) I'll be running it at manufacture specs, not OCed. And 3) I don't need Eyenfinity. The rest of my PC is about 2-2.5 years old (AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+, etc), but I was hoping to get a card that I could keep when I have the cash to upgrade other stuff later down the road. Don't know if any of those points matter, but figured I should throw it out.

So the one bunny linked to is really my best bet? It looks good. But I've heard some fairly horrendous things about Galaxy's customer support/rmas that gives me pause.

 

[OCGuy]

Great, thanks for all the super fast responses guys -- please keep them coming! I'll certainly look into that one bunny mentioned ($116 after MIR is within my budget).

A few other quick things to mention: 1) I won't be using SLI/Crossfire, just a single card. 2) I'll be running it at manufacture specs, not OCed. And 3) I don't need Eyenfinity. The rest of my PC is about 2-2.5 years old (AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+, etc), but I was hoping to get a card that I could keep when I have the cash to upgrade other stuff later down the road. Don't know if any of those points matter, but figured I should throw it out.

So the one bunny linked to is really my best bet? It looks good. But I've heard some fairly horrendous things about Galaxy's customer support/rmas that gives me pause.

The 768 460 in general is worth the extra $10 or so outside your budget if you plan on keeping the card for a while. Here is Anandtech's 460 review (make sure you are looking at the 768MB results, not 1GB)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3809/nvidias-geforce-gtx-460-the-200-king

 

[toyota]

please list the res that you are wanting to play at and rest of your specs such as system memory and psu. also what card do you have now?

 

[JustLookingOk]

While 1920x1080 would be ideal, 1280x720 would be perfectly acceptable for newer games. I'm not planning on running anything like crysis 2 on it. At the moment the most I'm doing is Dragon Age or Mass Effect 2.

I also do video editing/rendering. But most of that is SD.

 

[blanketyblank]

I can tell you from experience 5770 works pefectly fine for both of those titles at 1920 x 1080. In fact my 4850 worked pretty well for Dragon Age as well except it seemed to hit memory limit every now and then.

 

[toyota]

so you have a 6000 X2 and a 1920x1080 monitor? can you please list the other stuff I have asked you for instead of one thing at a time, lol. what is your current card? how much system ram do you have? what psu do you have?

 

[JustLookingOk]

My apologies toyota.

PSU: Antec EA500 500W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103773

Ram: Corsair XMS2 4GB (2GB x 2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145176

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-DS4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128075

Current Card: GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133216

Reason why I'm replacing it is that it's running way way too hot. ~63C idle, and 85+C under heavy load. It crashes at around 90C. I've cleaned its fan, and added extra case fans to no avail. I've had this card for about 2.5 years and only recently started having problems with it in the last week or so.

 

[Arkaign]

Ditto the 460. I have a 5770 1GB XFX, but for the prices they're currently selling for, the 460s make more sense. Back when I bought my 5770, the 460 wasn't on the market.

 

[toyota]

the 460 would be much better than a 5770 but just don't expect to get the most out of it with that cpu.

is that generic psu going to be okay though? it might help if we knew the full specs on it because it might not even be as good as a quality 300 watt psu.

EDIT: op edited info to reflect earthwatts psu which is fine.

 

[blanketyblank]

Although overkill for you there is an extremely good deal for a 5870 in hot deals section. 2gb version for 180. I'm hoping it sells out soon so I'm not tempted to get it.

 

[happy medium]

Grab yourself that gtx460 768mb and a new CPU as soon as possible.

Your motherboard supports Phenom II cpu's x4's and x6's.

http://www.gigabyte.us/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=2695

 

[happy medium]

is that generic psu going to be okay though?

Antec earthwatts = generic? I don't think so.

 

[toyota]

Antec earthwatts = generic? I don't think so.

oops I did not realize that was the psu.

he edited that because I swear it was not listed when I first looked.

 

[JustLookingOk]

Toyota is right, I did indeed edit it (though it was before he posted as you can see from the edit time). Sorry for the confusion!

I can't really afford a new CPU at the moment, but it is nice to know that I have some ok options without having to upgrade my motherboard. Thanks for pointing that out happy_medium.

I'll go ahead and purchase that GeForce GTX 460 in the morning.

Thanks for your help everyone! This was my first time on the anandtech forums (I've been reading the articles for a while) and I was blown away by everyone's speed and helpfulness. Cheers!

 

[bunnyfubbles]

yeah, since you plan to keep using the video card in the future the 460 really is the better option by quite a bit

2011 GPU Bench: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/296?vs=315

2010 GPU Bench: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/172?vs=156

Its arguably worth it before considering the $40 rebate.

 

[blanketyblank]

yeah, since you plan to keep using the video card in the future the 460 really is the better option by quite a bit

2011 GPU Bench: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/296?vs=315

2010 GPU Bench: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/172?vs=156

Its arguably worth it before considering the $40 rebate.

Withough the $40 rebate though there are much better cards in the price range like that 5870 on sale for 180. That and 6850s and 1 GB 460s are constantly found around there as well.

 

[OCGuy]

Withough the $40 rebate though there are much better cards in the price range like that 5870 on sale for 180. That and 6850s and 1 GB 460s are constantly found around there as well.

Thats about 50% over his budget, so I would say no, not worth it.

 

[blanketyblank]

Thats about 50% over his budget, so I would say no, not worth it.

I would agree, but I'm just saying that at 160 which the GTX 460 768 is without rebate (since they are charging 8 bucks for shipping not counting tax which which would make it around 175 in CA) there are much better cards available.
In terms of price I've seen 460 768 as low as $90AR so with careful shopping and some patience OP could probably pick one up for about the same or less than a 5770.

 

[Imp]

I would think that they're mostly the same, so would shop based on warranty and price.

XFX has the best warranty, and I had one, which I did RMA, and it came back within 2 weeks.

However, I picked up a new 6850 form Sapphire and way back when, I had another Sapphire. Both have not given me problems before. The bad thing is that you may be billed $15 (?) to get an RMA serviced. And their head office is in Hong Kong.