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  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Flex Video Card Review
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Flex Video Card Review

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    Introduction

    PC gaming enthusiasts and ATI fans can now be happy that Sapphire will be releasing a new Radeon HD 5770 to tackle the Eyefinity boggle. The fundamental problem is the requirement of an expensive DisplayPort monitor to get the full Eyefinity effect.  Sapphire is releasing a new HD 5770 card to address this and will allow you to run Eyefinity across three DVI supported monitors. This has been something that everyone has been asking for and at the right price can transform Eyefinity and multi monitor gaming from a rich boy's toy to an average users reality.

    In this review we will be looking at the new Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Flex, a new card from Sapphire designed to provide flexibility in your multi monitor experience.  Is there some value to multi monitor gamings? Can the HD 5770 deliver enough performance to make it worthwhile??

    Let's read on to find out.
    Card Features and Specifications
    Fabrication Process: 40nm
    Core Clock: 850MHz
    Shader Clock: 850MHz
    Stream Processors: 800 units
    ROP Units: 16
    Texture Filtering Units: 40
    Memory Interface: 128-bit
    Memory Amount/Type: 1GB/GDDR5 Memory
    Memory Clock: 1200MHz (4800MHz effective)
    Memory Bandwidth: 83.2 GB/s
    DirectX Compliance: 11
    Connection: 16x PCI Express 2.1
    Form Factor: Dual Slot
    Multi-GPU Support: CrossFire
    Part Number: 288-1E148-020SA