The XFX Radeon HD 5830 video card features 1120 stream processors, 1GB of GDDR5 memory, a custom GPU cooler and a price tag of under $240. If you are looking to spend under $250 on a DirectX 11 graphics card that fully supports ATI Eyefinity then you'll need to take a look at this one and see how it performs to other video cards like a couple different NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465's for starters.
The XFX Radeon HD 5830 has an overall length of 10.25 inches, so this isn't a little card by any means. In order to keep the XFX Radeon HD 5830's temperatures in check, XFX uses a custom cooling solution that features a 70mm fan. The heat sink assembly has a pair of heat pipes with ~120 fins soldered in place. The fan is a 70x70x15mm fan that is rated for .43 Amps and a maximum speed of 4000RPM. For a small fan it move a decent amount of air, at maximum speed it will push 35.5CFM through the fins of the heatsink. The heat sink itself has a copper base and the pair of copper heatpipes that run through the base have been soldered into place...
skier wrote:wow surprised how small the difference is between it and the 5750, doesn't look to be a whole lot better than the 5770 and nowhere near 57xx crossfire
You mean the 5770. Yea the 5770 is a better buy imo. Much cheaper while taking a not-so-big performance hit. This week, there was two seperate deals where the 5830 could be bought for $190 and $180 after rebate.
Great view Dan.
Btw last page, it should say Galaxy and not Galazy.
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geokilla wrote:You mean the 5770. Yea the 5770 is a better buy imo. Much cheaper while taking a not-so-big performance hit.
no, i meant 5750, that IS what he compared to and it wasnt even that far behind, id imagine a 5770 is verrry close to it
The whole time I thought it was a 5770...
You don't read reviews from other sites? The 5770 is pretty much 10% to 20% slower than the 5830. That's why the 5830 can be had for so cheap occasionally. No one sane would buy a 5830.
Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.2Ghz @ 1.16V (CPU-Z + LinX)
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H F14 BIOS
ASUS GTX 460 768MB @ 800/1950
Kingston HyperX DDR3 8GB @ DDR-1333
Corsair AX750
Crucial M4 128GB
Western Digital Black 1TB
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ EVO
BenQ E2420HD
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geokilla wrote:You don't read reviews from other sites?
nope. not unless im buying something specific, but i usually google "(part) legitreviews" anyway. mostly i just dont trust most other sites..at all, and don't get me started on magazines
(that and a lot of sites have terrible layouts/colors so i cant even stand reading them)
just noticed, the 5830 only has 16 ROP engines which is the same as the 5670, 5750 & 5770 lol wonder why they have to be 4/8/16/32
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