VisionTek HD 5750 Review - PAGE 2

When you remove the VisionTek HD 5750 from it's packaging, you'll most likely notice its' cooler before anything else. It's extremely cool looking, partially because the fan blades are shiny and blue. This makes the overall appearance extremely pleasing to the eyes.

Flipping the card over reveals more blue PCB, which we don't usually see on ATI cards. However change is always good. Plus, I'm personally not to found of the red PCB, I myself like the darker colors. In my opinion, this color choice only makes the VisionTek HD 5750 more visually appealing! The backside also shows us 4 memory modules. These modules make up 512MB of the VisionTek HD 5750's 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

As far as connectivity goes the VisionTek HD 5750, like other HD 5750s, offers quite a lot. You'll be able to utilize two DVI ports, an HDMI port, and a Display port. If you're using an older monitor that only supports analog input, you'll be able to use the DVI to VGA adapter. The user will then be able to use a combination of these ports in order to utilize the HD 5750's Eyefinity support.

While we're on the subject of connectivity, let's take a look at the VisionTek HD 5750's power connector. Like all HD 5750's, VisionTek's model draws its power from a single 6Pin connector. This tells us that the card doesn't require much power, which is great for the users with smaller PSUs. As far as CrossFire goes, the VisionTek HD 5750 has two CrossFire connectors. This means you'll be able to CrossFire up to 4 of these bad boys, although we know this usually doesn't scale well. That being said, two of these puppies can more than handle just about anything you can throw at them.

Removing the VisionTek HD 5750's cooler is extremely easy. To do so simply unscrew the 4 screws located on the backside of the card. Once this has been done, you'll be able to pull the cooler off of the GPU.

The coolest part of the VisionTek HD 5750's cooler is its' fan. It comes in a black shroud, with blue blades. The overall look is, again, very appealing. The fan itself runs at 12V, and believe it or not it's very quiet. There are definitely quieter fans out there, but this thing is quiet. Even when the fan is running full blast at 100% it's hard to hear This will be extremely appealing to those users looking to run whisper quiet systems. For people who like louder beasts, well, this might be a disappointment!

The card's actual heatsink is a big chunk of finned aluminum. The part that comes directly in contact with the GPU is fairly smooth, but there are some rough bits on the surface. This means thermal grease is definitely needed in order to create good contact between the cooler and the core. I was a little disappointed by this cooler, especially after seeing the massive heatsinks on some of the bigger 5XXX series cards. Then again, the HD 5750 shouldn't generate to much heat. Hopefully this cooler will be perfect for the card!

With the heatsink removed we can clearly see the cards 40nm Juniper core. Scattered around this little beauty are the remaining memory modules. These are each stock clocked at 1150MHz, and make up 512MB of the VisionTek HD 5750's 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

Specifications

Specifications are always important, and the VisionTek HD 5750 follows that of the stock HD 5750's. In other words it uses a 40nm Juniper core clocked at 700MHz. It is equipped with 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1150MHz on a 128Bit bus. The core is stuffed with 750 stream processors, 36 texture units, and 16 ROPS. The card is capable of DirectX 11, and OpenGL 3.1.

Doppelganger?: VisionTek 5750, Palit GT240 Sonic

As far as the VisionTek HD 5750 goes, well, let's just say they didn't realy deviate from the stock model. It is capable of using Eyefinity, as well as Accelerated Video Transcoding via ATI Stream Technology. You'll be able to QuadFire three of these babies, or use ATI Avivo. Which is some HD video display software. The card is meant to be used on a PCIe 2.0 slot, but you could get away with using an older PCIe X 16 slot. You'll also be able to utilize Dynamic power management with ATI's PowerPlay technology. Plus you get a box with Wolfenstien pictures!

Now let's overclock this sucker!