A Closer Look
Though Sapphire does manufacture reference cards, they do their best work when they build cards of their own design. The HD 5670 is a small card that should fit in pretty much every rig sporting a PCI-E x 16 slot and a pair of full sized PCI expansion slots. It requires no external power.
The most noticible item on the card is the cooler. Normally, mainstream video cards are cooled by the crappy little fans and tiny heatsinks from yesteryear. Sapphire had Arctic Cooling build a cooler for the HD 5670, with a fairly massive aluminum heatsink and an 80mm fan. It is a dual slot cooler, so keep in mind that a pair of empty PCI slots are needed…not always the case with “off-the-shelf” PCs.
This HD 5670 sports a full gig of GDDR5 memory. That’s a lot of memory for a mainstream card. Until recently, it was a lot of memory for any video card.
There is onboard DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. Sub-15 is available via an adapter.
Included with the card is a DVI/Sub-15 adapter, a male HDMI/female DVI adapter (to accommodate dual DVI), a Crossfire bridge, driver disk, and ArcSoft SimHD IM.
Golden. Great, useful info.
This is a very helpful review. As I belive there exists a significant number of users who would love to see mainstream card like this one getting such powerful. Not everyone needs a 150w+ monster in their set-up to enjoy premeum quality HD or to play their favourite Dx9/10 tittles which also exist in great number. As the industry is moving more toward performance per watt rather than performance per $, cards such as radion 4670/5550/5670 are welcome contenders in the mainstream. I'll upgrade to the HD5670 from the 4550 which I'm using now. BTW, it would've great if the crossfire performances were also included.
will this work with windows 7
Yes it will work with windows 7
I just want to know that is this card can run on PCI-E x16 1.0 slot??? if yes then is there any noticeable difference in performance??? if no the can you suggest me any other 1gb card???
400w needed? Really?
I have a PCI-E x16 slot, is this compatible?
Yes it is