Gigabyte Radeon HD5770 Silent Cell Video Card

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Introduction

It was way back in August when the test for the Gigabyte HD 5750 Silent Cell which opposed the HIS HD 5750 IceQ, which helped us to think that the temperature readings from Gigabyte model will soon be unveiled in the market having Fanless powerful feature. And on considering that point, Gigabyte has finally revealed the Silent Cell version of the HD 5770 is the market. It will certainly be the analyzing point about the model to see if the fanless graphics card having more powerful GPU, cope up to the expectation of all the people who have invested their money on making this thing possible.





Presentation

The HD 5750 Silent Cell has certainly retained its long going template since the yesteryear's, the only difference being that the new HD 5770 is much larger and stronger even as compared to the HD 5870.

Moreover, Gigabyte has even included a special radiator for the HD 5770 which is comparably much better than the classic style for HD 5870. The upper radiator for the HD 5770 exceeds the PCB by almost 4 cm. The PCB for the HD 5770 is much of a modern size, having elongated card for the radiator currently in used. With the monster that helps in cooling the HD 5770 way to better as compared to the previous that were used, so one thing is certain that the cooling of Juniper XT will not a problem at all.

But however we should not ignore the other side of the coin, as the volume and functionality of this radiator has got two negative points:
1 First being the problems to access the power connector.
2 And the second since the radiator is bit large in size so there is a possibility having less compatibility with most HTPC market enclosures.

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The Test Platform

It has come to the notice that the test platform for the Gigabyte HD 5770 Silent Cell is exactly the same as the previous test platform of the Asus Deluxe M4A88T-I. One of the reason behind this is the fear of having little boxes that can easily grab the HTPC graphics card. With the likes of the Silverstone SG06 and SG07 along with the Lian-Li Q07 and Q08, it has finally come to a conclusion that the latter one that is the Lian-Li Q07 and Q08 is only compatible with this Gigabyte HD 5770 graphics card Silent Cell.

These two being found as the only ideal case for this HD5770 card. The case is very much Compact and well structured having 140mm fan on the front side and 120mm on the processor which will make the cooling proper for the HD5770 the Silent Cell.

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Performance

The performance is certainly the crucial thing having most people eyes on it, we have given here some of the test performance of the game that we think will show a good purpose for this card. If anyone wants to compare these test, they are free to do so having the same game but on a different graphics card probably a Radeon HD 5000. Also one thing to take care of is that this model runs Gigabyte frequency reference without the fanless feature.

If anyone has really be able to find out the exact difference between the two tests then one thing is certain that the Radeon HD 5770 delivers very high performance, having Full HD resolutions as compared to the other version of the same model. One can even think of having this card to play the new blue rays movies on an HDTV. By looking at the number of games this graphics card is compatible with like Crysis which really requires very high resolution, we can think that the HD 5770 is just the starting point for all the series to get released. We can think that the expected Radeon HD 6800 should also contribute to the current HD 5770 in terms of price getting down.

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Temperatures

As compared to the performance of the, temperatures of your CPU containing the Graphics card also has to be maintained. So we have even carried out a test for measuring the temperature levels in rest state as well in used state.

By looking at the above results, the Gigabyte provides increased performance as compared to its previous ventilated version. If anyone wants to see the difference than the comparative Radeon HD 5000, then it is found that the same is only 3 or 4 ° C above the reference ventilated version.

Moving further in comparing the Gigabyte HD 5750 Silent Cell as well, we can consider that the results are almost similar by taking into account that the test was conducted during summer. This can conclude that the Gigabyte HD 5770 video card is successful, only thing being that there are less cases available which can handle this graphics card.

A greater benefit should also given to the case which has been used that is the Lian-Li PC-Q08 which provided excellent eye drawing results to prove its efficiency. If we see a tower case and compare it to the Lian-Li PC-Q08 case we can say that a similar kind of ventilation system is used to hold the card. Only thing that has to be taken special attention that the card gets maximum air count to avoid becoming over heated.

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Conclusion

Considering all the above facts we can conclude that the ultimate aim for this Gigabyte bodybuilder in the radiator of the HD 5770 Silent Cell, is to provide maximum performance along with compactness and durability. The important characteristic of this Taiwanese manufacturer based product is that the graphics card never reaches 75 ° C making it a competitive product when compared to the others that re available in the market

The only drawback being the height of this radiator which does not make it go smoothly with all the huge HTPC enclosures format other than the Fusion Max, but we can think that the same can be made available with all the cases in the distant future. But then also the current Lian-Li PC-Q08 that has been used with this graphics card is also one of the latest case on HTPC in the modern market.



To be honest this Gigabyte Radeon HD5770 Silent Cell Video Card is really more than a worth to have on our case for all those who are looking for a home theater graphics card which is strong to resist any thing and at the same time is very silent to virtually play all the HD games. Strictly speaking the Gigabyte HD 5770 Silent Cell is certainly one of the ideal graphics card available in the market having the most precious fanless feature.