This video card is a factory overclocked card that has improved cooling capabilities and that won't cause tinnitus even at full speed. For this test the reviewer was totally focused on gaming with a budget priced system. After several days with the HIS IceQ 5 5770 Turbo, playing many old and new games, the reviewer realized that you can build a good and cheap AMD gaming machine with this card, you'll find an example on the website.

Overclocking:

The Catalyst Control Center Overdrive feature was used to manually push the card even further. The reviewer could get another 75MHz on top the GPU core @ 950 MHz and the GDDR5 was OCed an additional 80 MHz.

Compared to:

Ati Radeon HD5770 Reference card.

Benchmarks:

Everest Ultimate, FRAPS, 3DMark Vantage, Ungine Heaven 2.1, temerature, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Noise Lebvels, Furmark, power consumption, Alien V Predator, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat.

Test Setup:

• CPU : Athlon X2 255
• Display : Samsung 245BW 24
• Memory : 2x2GB DDR III 1600MHz G-Skill
• HDD : Western Digital Caviar Black 640 GB
• Power supply : Corsair HX850
• Optical drive : LG 16x DVDRW
• computer Case : NZXT Vulcan
• OS : Windows 7 Professional x64