Introduction

AMD has had a complete DirectX 11 lineup for several months now, whereas NVIDIA is still building their product stack. The Radeon HD 5750 is one of the lower mid-range, budget-oriented models AMD is offering at this time, with the HD 5400, HD 5500, and HD 5600 series being slower. With a price range in the sub-$150 segment, these are also the cards that many of the budget gamers will buy, and NVIDIA will offer a new card, the GeForce GTS 450 in this segment, soon.

PowerColor is the first manufacturer to create a low-profile HD 5700 Series card which should fit most media PC cases (slim form-factor cases in general), on the market that have the space for a dual-slot graphics card. Specs-wise, the card follows the reference clock speeds, with the major innovation being the compact form factor, PCB design and cooler here.

Packaging

The package seems to be PowerColor's standard HD 5750 package with a sticker on it to indicate the low profile design.

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + Quick Install Guide
• Low profile bracket

It would have been nice if there was a Molex-PCIe power cable included, because PSUs bundled with slim form-factor cases are less likely to have PCIe power connectors.

The Card

PowerColor has designed their card in a way that if it's used in a full-height slot you get an additional VGA port. If you use the low-profile bracket you can easily remove the VGA cable.


The card requires two slots in your system, and it is certainly a good idea to have a few cm of extra space for air to get sucked in.


On the card you find one DVI port, one full size HDMI port and one detachable VGA port. The HDMI interface includes a 7.1 channel audio signal that is generated by an HD audio device integrated in the GPU. Unlike NVIDIA cards which limit you to two active outputs at the same time, you may use all three outputs at the same time on ATI's latest cards.


A CrossFire connector is not present on the card and doesn't really make much sense. Still, if you want to run a CrossFire setup with two of these cards, it is possible and all data will be transferred via the PCI-Express bus.


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