Monday, February 1st 2010
MSI Radeon HD 5770 HAWK Pictured
MSI is readying a new ATI Radeon HD 5770 based graphics card with its new "HAWK" branding. Its design will involve overclocking headroom, and a cooler superior to the reference design in terms of cooling performance. The MSI R5770 HAWK is said to feature "Military Grade" components, and a cooler which looks like a shrunk version of the Twin Frozr II found on many of MSI's Lightning series graphics cards. Another interesting feature is its voltage measure points that pop out by two wires. These let you measure vGPU and vMem voltages. The PCB features just one CrossFire finger. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI-D, HDMI, and DisplayPort. The AMD Juniper GPU powering it is DirectX 11 compliant, features 800 stream processors, and 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface, with which it connects to 1 GB of memory. There's no word on the release date or price yet, but we expect it to be out very soon.
Source:
Guru3D
35 Comments on MSI Radeon HD 5770 HAWK Pictured
People that overclock care not for "overkill" sir :laugh:
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The reference cooler is fine but at anything over 50% fan speed it can be a bit loud.
The heat tubes dont look like they are pinched closed like the awful Sapphire coolers were.
Too bad this didnt come out soonertechnically you are right, the original card with 1 fan OCs a LOT and while it dosent run as cool as I like it is 1000X cooler than the 4870(which radiates off a bunch of heat).
However its nice to see coolers begin to improve over the standard reference ones. The Sapphire Vapor X is also a better cooler(it would be nice to see a comparison of the 3 cards, Ref, Vapor X and MSI coolers)
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102868
And there are a few of us that dont mind paying a bit more as long as we get more for our dollar..
Seriously, looka it's gonna take off at any moment :laugh:
MSI really go the distance with their products, competition on all price segment levels by providing more bang for the buck is the best for the consumers. :D
Military grade components are not just some fake statement, there have always been parts that have a notably wider temperature range for starters that are slightly more expensive (not even by that much most of the time), and those are usually known as 'military grade' since the army has a set of requirements defined, and the difference in temperature specs isn't just 1 degree either.
So when you have part on a PCB that gets hot and stays hot for extended periods (or get very cold, below 0C/32F) then it can pay off to have the components be more sturdy than standard, it should extend their lifetime also.
Now if that's needed on a budget model GPU is questionable, but on an expensive HD5870 or Fermi or something that would be nice.