Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 - 1 GB DDR3 HDMI/DVI-I/VGA PCI-Express Graphics Card 100293L

Thursday, March 22, 2012

I'm a PC builder, and gamer (Crysis 2, Dead Space 2, etc.), and general fan of AMD in general. And this, the Radeon HD 5570, is another reason why.I've had this for about a month, was kind of skeptical as to whether or not it would play certain games well, saw sort of mixed reviews on it, but took the chance anyway - if this were by nVidia, or if it were a Dell computer, or an Evil-Intel-Empire processor, I would not have taken said chance - and couldn't be happier. Crysis 2? No problem, no lag on the first two graphics settings. And that's both with and without the DX 11 patch. It also plays on Ultra, the highest setting, fine. Dead Space 2 is a breeze, as well as others. And for those of you…
I really loved this graphics card! It was very affordable, and offered great performance for my Mini-ATX computer with a small power supply of ~220 Watt power supply. It was capable(along with 2.5GB RAM and a Phenom X2 @ 2.6 GHz) of playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 at max. You can even install Afterburner and overclock the graphics card to increase you performance, although it will cost more power from the supply, and may make some games unstable. This cheap graphics card can turn you cheap budget line desktop into a fierce graphics handling machine!