5770, anything bad about it?

My 9800gt has broken :cry

Looking for a quiet but capable card for W7x64; light gaming, a little video but mostly just for MG's! I've had a hankering for a 5770 for some time now as they may be the most reliable of the current AMD lineup, quiet with low power draw in 2D mode. Does anyone know of any specific gotcha's with these, driver version bugs or anything else?

I must get something ordered pretty fast, working off a 5200 PCI 128MB whilst waiting for 4 year old Vista drivers to crash isn't much fun.

 

I've had mine for about a year and have no issues in Win 7 doing heavy gaming. No issues with drivers and I've been letting steam do the driver upgraades. I'm pretty sure AMD has very similarn newer cards for around the same price.

 

Thanks for that, typpeo

It's the reliability factor that's probably most important to me, something that's impossible to gain any useful data on with the newest cards. They're just too new

 

The only problem I have with the 5770 is that it isn't Nvidia I've heard it's a decent card.

 

LOL fair comment, probably more useful than something coming from an AMD/ATI fanboi!

 

Quick update: the 5770 arrived and was fitted, I downloaded the latest W7x64 drivers individually and managed to force a 'clean' install - no CCC etc. - by pointing DevMan to the C:\ATI\Support\11-6_vista64_win7_64_dd\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF folder. After reboot and a few log checks, I installed the CL drivers, no shortcuts there, it's an MSI installer.

After another reboot and scanning of System and Application logs for anomalies, I checked the WEI - up from the 5.9 of the old 9800GT to 7.3, significantly more than I'd expected. I fired up GPU-Z and ran through a few quick games and demo's, online and off: no problems running slightly higher settings, most load times felt faster, both at game start and in-game.

The card seems to be essentially silent, GPU-Z reporting fan speeds of around 44% at 94% GPU load. I couldn't detect any increase in noise levels above the stock Intel CPU cooler and PSU fan - a significant reduction in noise levels compared to the 9800GT.

An unexpected bonus in terms of a faster boot-time was noted, a reduction of around 10-12%.

So far, very pleased :highfive

Time to catch up on some work

 

Wow, that's a beast of a card for someone who does 'light gaming and MG's.:-D Ya, on the noise of the 9800GT at full load with just the shaders pushed to 1550 IIRC with a %5 OC on the other two, plus it was hot! I still have one lying around in my 'computer parts inventory bin' just in case. Well, it was a 65nm product vs your 40nm, so a lot less heat. Man, 128 streams vs 800 respectively. I'd go ATI if the software existed to run them efficiently for folding.