PowerColor Go! Green Radeon HD 5750 AX5750 1GBD5-NS3DH Video Card

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56 degrees below complete 3d load is reasonably cool. Benchmarks quicker than a stock HD5750 by a fair amount according to evaluations on-line. Runs flawlessly on a Dell Vostro 220 with 300W PSU. WEI scored 7.3 & 7.3. Silent Card with passive cooling. N/A By far this is the most strong card w/o an external energy connector.

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I purchased a open-box 1. The value is good and the card is performing as expected. Temperature goes to 81F right after running 3dmark vantage with chassis open. Still stressing it... As lengthy as the card is operating steady, no cons. Will update the overview later...

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Excellent, no un-degraded graphics due to heat. Granted, I have a case with excellent ventilation (no arctic chiller by any suggests). The case just simply moves heat out. I have no added fans installed on the heat sink. That would defeat the purpose. Really should come with a Crossfire Bridge and much better user manual support. Luckily, my MB came with a Crossfire Bridge that can jump across two PCIe slots. If you don't have one particular, you'll need one particular for running two in CF. The card does fantastic as a standalone. But, CF is a bonus. From what I see, you only need one bridge, not two (but I have not attempted two).

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*ATI 5750 platform delivers surprising, (relatively) energy effective functionality for the dollars*Silent*Presumably consumes quite little power --The item does not work as advertised-- At stock settings, I seasoned frequent lockups (grey/striped screen of death) through common 3D gaming (even older games like Portal) and in Furmark. I had to essentially underclock the card from factory settings to attain stability, but never ever achieved perfect reliability. I identified I could also boost stability by tying a huge 120mm fan to it and operating at complete 12V, therefore negating the complete point of this PREMIUM, passively-cooled aspect.Unfortunately, I will have to return (my 1st return from Newegg) this card and contemplate acquiring a reference design and style 5750 or 5770 and an aftermarket cooling remedy. My relevant system specs are as follows:Intel C2D E8400 three. GHzMushkin Blackline PC2-6400 4GBASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Antec P-183 / Seasonic X-650 Gold PSU3x 120mm case fans (noctua/nexus)**Case ambient temperatures reported by mobo at 26C. My case is cool enough to run my CPU entirely passively with the Noctua heatsink. Prime95 Steady ྸ hrs+), Memtest86 stable ྫྷ hours+).

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it performs as made. its about equatable to a gts250.hdmi and audio out through hdmi perform completely with direct from ati drivers. plays games 1280x720p just great! (wow and bfbc2) just fine on just about ultra settings.runs vc1 and h264 hardware decoding like a champ it does run quite hot...but that was *expected*.ş question is air flow.... do you have air flow? no ? dont purchase the card and gripe about it then.i placed a 120mm fan on it and am running it at 800rpm and it is silent... and cools the crud out of the card. not artifacts, no crashing games.mounted in a matx case (vulcan) with the energy provide upside down to pull air down and out... and mounted the fan on the card to pull air thought the radiator and down into the energy provide.energy provide is 1100watts so temps are not a situation. enormous... kiss the next pci slot goodbye... and sli? not a possibility unless you mount a cross flow fan... hmmm maybe i will try that next!

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Quiet operation and uneventful installation. None however.

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as it states in the specs and other reviewers.Also overclocks greater than other 5750's NA

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I like this card. No fan and no moving element and incredibly quiet. No 6 pin power !!! None I have Vmware running on my client and when I play a 1080p movie, my host would crash and it say ATI CCC has recovered.I dont know if it has to do with that this card does not have 6 pin energy and there is not sufficient juice??? Anyone knows?

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I purchased one of the powercolor SCS3 5750's initially, then one particular of the go-green ones to run in crossfire.These cards are absolutely nothing quick of awesome. My case has pretty regular cooling- a 120mm inlet, a 120mm outlet, a 90mm cpu fan. The two factors I did outdoors of the norm is place an extra 120mm exhaust on the side of my case close to the video slots, then wired all those fans with each other into a fan controller set at the lowest speed they'll consistently begin on.With that configuration and two of these in crossfire, 8hr furmark peaked at 57*ና* (the gogreen was the cooler 1).Meanwhile, the Computer is quite significantly inaudible with the config. I have this is a residence theater cave, and the challenging drives (I have a pair of 5400rpm caviar greens in raid ) are the loudest component of the Computer.So comprehensive silence, no heat challenges, and efficiency is Great - I have a different Computer with a GTX 285 in it, and my crossfire setup pretty considerably matches it (but the 285 is a lot hotter and a ***LOT*** louder!). I'm guessing if you just shove a single of these in a dell with only a PSU fan (or anything like that) it almost certainly wouldn't perform out really as nicely. But if you devote the ฤ or so to place fantastic inlet/exhaust (then the added บ or so to get a controller to turn down those fans to really low speed), then maintain wires bundled and bays in order to keep air flowing, it should be good. It appears like absolutely everyone desires to focus on a distinct purpose with a high-finish Pc - either HTPC or video games. Not both. This card enables you to do each, and IMO, I can't see how it would be achievable to beat this combo for the multipurpose Pc - at least not with something accessible on the market these days.

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no additional energy connector needed, largely passively cooled (if have airflow in case across card from chassis fans) can not get three monitors functioning in desired mode in Ubuntu 10.ten 64bit desktop. I tried the default drivers offered in Ubuntu ten.ten, as well as ATI's catalyst 11.two and 11.three drivers. With the Ubuntu drivers, I could get all three monitors functioning, nevertheless, they would not rotated appropriately. With the Catalyst drivers, I have however to get much more than 2 monitors working. Extremely disappointing. I could have gotten two monitors up and operating with the integrated graphics of my Core i7. The entire point of adding a graphics card to my technique is to use a mixture of three portrait/landscape mode monitors. I do lots of photography function as effectively as documents. I have to have portrait monitors readily available in my workflow. Even so, at least 1 requirements to be landscape. I do not have space in this method for an additional graphics card. My method is developed to be ultra fairly. I used a noctua NH-D14 cpu cooler, replacing the fans (and all chassis fans) with the ultra-rather Nexus D12SL-12 120mm fans and utilizing a NZXT Sentry-two fan controller to throttle them back. I also purchased a Seasonic fanless energy supply.I utilised five temp sensors inside at critical spots, none go above 45 deg in normal use.My key objective of this card was to have the following setup: 1920x1080 left monitor (portrait mode), 1080x1920 center monitor (landscape mode), 1920x1200 correct monitor (portrait mode). The left monitor has a displayport (DP) + DVI + VGA connection. Center has HDMI + VGA (also attempted HDMI to DVI adapter). Correct has DVI + VGA. I attempted each combination of DVI/HDMI/DP which includes DVI to HDMI adapter. Other program info:Asus micro-ATX P8P67-M Pro 1155 motherboard, rev3Core i7-2600k (not overclocked... butƞ x 4GB Gskill RAMOCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSDWD 2TB WD20EARS HDD (ultra really version)TJ08 micro ATX case

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looks cool the price tag is to high would this card perform in a 300w energy provide i know it say's 400 and up but that's normally to cover there side, so do you guy's think it would be ok?

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Excellent specs. Passive cooling. DOA. Tested on 2 different computer systems with same result.The huge heat-sink does not align well with the PCB. Will post a different review when acquire the replacement.Workmanship does not seem as excellent as other major VGA makers (Gigabyte, Saphire, and so on) Manufacturer Response:Was the box damaged at all when you received the card? If you continue having problems with your replacement please contact me and I'll personally assist you. My e-mail is hugo@powercolor.com, and be positive to reference this review. Thanks.-Hugo

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Why does the a lot more potent fanless Gigabyte 5770 expense 贬 and why does the much less powerful fanless Powercolor 5750 cost 赉? Why does Powercolor charge 赉 for a less potent video card? I was going to purchase one of these until I noticed the fanless Gigabyte 5770 R577SL-1GD going for 贬. The fanless Gigabyte has 800 stream processors and higher clock speeds even though the powercolor has only 720 stream processors and lower clock speeds. The Gigabyte one particular is more of a beast. Manufacturer Response:Our card utilizes a lot less power than that card, which ultimately is going to quantity to a higher manufacturing price, which is what prices are normally determined by (along with a lot of other components). This card isn't developed to be a speed demon of a card. This is ideal for situations exactly where low power, and low noise are essential (such as HTPC setups). If you want something potent then go with a higher series graphics cards. Other corporations develop more rapidly graphics cards that are silent also, but the quantity of heat generated in your situation is going to be incredibly high. Ultimately it would be better to get a version with a fan that will exhaust the hot air OUT of your situation. Either way, kudos to them on their product, but this card isn't intended to compete with a 5770. Thanks.-Hugo

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Doesn't suck a lot of power. Overclocks effectively, and is entirely silent. Card arrived DOA. Well, died right after 10 seconds. Had to go by means of their RMA process (installed right after the return window at newegg), which went fairly properly. Turn around time was less than two weeks, and this was proper just before Xmas. Manufacturer Response:So for a full 10 seconds the card worked? Did it die just before it had a opportunity to boot into Windows? It's unfortunate that you had a DOA, but I would really like to try and enable you get this resolved. Really feel free to speak to me and we can discuss the dilemma you had with your card. My e-mail is hugo@powercolor.com, thanks.-Hugo

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wonderful card, have two in crossfire in an inaudible htpc, with occasional gaming not the fastest for the cost, but the silence is worth it. needs 10cm crossfire bridge due to the heatsink, can have difficulty acquiring.

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Replaced my old silent Sapphire HD3850 card. The card performs fantastic. I purchased it to use for video acceleration and bitstreaming. No auxillary power connector needed on this model. There was a different silent PowerColor 5750 released just before this one that did. Took a lengthy time to make it to North America. From on the web evaluations, the card appears to use less power than my old 3850 at idle. The 5750 heatsink utilised right here does get warm to the touch, exactly where the oversized cooler on the 3850 never genuinely did.

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When it functions, it's wonderful.Operating cool. Passive -- silent.No moving parts to break.Support for Linux is superior. I have it run with openSuse 11.3 with no problem. Just download the driver from ati. Does not work with old pcie 1. motherboard. The previous one was DOA. It also has badly aligned heatsink, but it was not physically damaged in any way. The second one functions nicely and has nicely-aligned heat sink. It looks Powercolor wants to QC their item far better.

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Innovative Design, vivid colors, good looking in the case, dead silent The HDMI connection on the card was delivered with one of the pins bent. Also the HDMI connection placement was to near the outside slot mount necessitating some case modifications never essential with prior cards. A little fast surgery to the HDMI connection and all was properly. Appealing card with a excellent design. Could have been executed with a lot more quality control. But all in all, I'm pleased at this point.

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Silent. Not practically, but LITERALLY silent. Gaming-grade. I play games with highest-possible settings; 4AAቬAF can generally accomplish 60FPS+. If I don't get 60FPS+, I just lower the AA setting to two, where games would nonetheless look sexy. CrossFireX ready just in case if you want even quicker efficiency out of this silent operation. HDMI with audio is usually a plus.This cards runs cool. With my present case's so-so ventilation, my prior silent videocard (HD 4850) would go over 100C. But this card stays cool under 60C following hours of gameplay. A tad additional high priced than the other air-cooled Radeon HD 5750. It most likely won't fit into the really tiny HTPC circumstances, although micro-ATX shouldn't have any issues with it. I play Aion, Guild Wars, Vindictus, Valve games (HL2, L4D, TF2, Portal, and so on) and each and every other mass-common games like CoD series. Quite stable at 750񳄄 overclock. This card is quite sensitive on GPU clock but generous on memory overclocking.My system setup:Intel Core 2 Q6600Abit IP35 ProG.Skill 4GB DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)

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Clearly any individual purchasing this card is immediately after silence, and this card does just that! Runs most of my games at a pretty very good rate 30-60 FPS on some games with AAx4 & AFx16. Runs Mass Impact two quite well surprisingly! Fairly simple to overclock as nicely, I'm utilizing settings that a prior user submitted here earlier at GPU 750 MEM 1300 and it runs stable with no artifacts. Large heatsink! No power connectors but its not prob I guess, would have been nice to have the selection open though. No included CrossFire X adapter. Costlier than it's other reference models but you pay for silence with this. So far I'm using it as a HTPC card for it's silence, but naturally for the hardcore gamer this just won't do it! Overall a quite good piece of hardware, runs decent games and HD videos fairly nicely.

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update to prior review:supports 3 monitors: two 1080 x 1920 and 1 1200 x1980. No extra power connector necessary. It is mostly passively cooled (if there is airflow in case across card from chassis fans). Works well in 2D mode. The quantity of screen space I have to work with is remarkable. I sit with my eyes about 20" from the monitors, thus producing these 3 24" monitors completely fill up my field of view. This lets me see most of my photography workflow simultaneously and also see the full resolution of the monitors. Wonderful! update to previous evaluation:I had to install Ubuntu 11.04 Beta1 to get the card + three monitors working. Also, I could NOT use any of the ATI proprietary drivers. update to previous review:see my very first assessment of this card for all my method specs.I have not benchmarked this card or completed any strenuous 3D testing. I am at the moment bogged down in getting software installed on 11.04 beta1, which is a bit of a chore given the number of broken dependencies moving to the beta release.