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New 5770 design, Passive cooling

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Not impressed. I was reading a review of these cards not to far back and noticed the 5750 had a power draw that was 75-80W. I'd much rather see a "green" version of that chip where its clocked down just a bit so you don't need the 6pin plug. It would then be the fastest card without one. The 5770 isn't much higher, they might be able to make one of those as well. That would be something.
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4745454b said:
Not impressed. I was reading a review of these cards not to far back and noticed the 5750 had a power draw that was 75-80W. I'd much rather see a "green" version of that chip where its clocked down just a bit so you don't need the 6pin plug. It would then be the fastest card without one. The 5770 isn't much higher, they might be able to make one of those as well. That would be something.


A green single slot version of both would probably be better I agree.
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4745454b said:
Not impressed. I was reading a review of these cards not to far back and noticed the 5750 had a power draw that was 75-80W. I'd much rather see a "green" version of that chip where its clocked down just a bit so you don't need the 6pin plug. It would then be the fastest card without one. The 5770 isn't much higher, they might be able to make one of those as well. That would be something.


You could just buy a 5670 and decide to overclock it when you want more performance instead.
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I'm not familiar enough with the 5670 to know how good it would be OC'd. I'm still guessing a down clocked 5770 would be quite a bit faster. Just surprised no one has done it yet seeing as its so close to 75W anyways.

Is a massive heatsink like that really different than just using nice really quiet fans? You're going to need some kind of airflow anyways to cool a 5770 so it's not like the entire build can be completely fanless.
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