just got myself a second hand ATI 5770 graphics card

[zog]

Gaming is actually a secondary reason for why I got the thing.. but I don't know much about ATI graphics cards - how does this thing rate? I know it's not current state of the art.

"AMD Radeon HD 5770 HIS ATI 1gb GDDR5" for $66 plus postage.

[Giuvannaru91]

in Italy costs around 95 euro (125 $) NEW

[JabbaTheSlut]

I have that card at the moment although mine is the XXX Edition which is factory overclocked. It's not bad, it does the job but I'll be upgrading my entire PC soonish.

[zog]

good to hear, if one of you guys is using one it can't be that bad!
and looks like I saved a few bux sniping away on ebay - provided the card works.

going to try and overclock this to maximise its power at doing calculations, but I'll see how I go.

[JabbaTheSlut]

I've had 2 of those cards. The 1st one burnt out after a week (started smoking and died).I managed to get a warranty replacement for it though. I've had the replacement for about 18 months now and its been fine.

[[DRuG]NikT]

And this one you feed hash brownies so it doesn't start smoking like the other one?

[zog]

Apart from the non-graphics function I want to tinker with, looks like it will at least put me an the ballpark for a bit of graphics performance for not much bux. I've been using onboard SandyBridge graphics on my i3-2100t (in the other thread I describe making a home theatre PC with one, I also ended up upgrading my desktop PC as well to i3-2100t) - but I'll take the small hit in electricity use for the extra eye candy.

[zog]

I may have just killed the 5770... after having a lot of fun with it since I got it.

I've had it overclocked and running fairly hot and been running lots of computational stuff on it that has been using full power, but the last few days it has been fairly cool, and when it failed I wasn't really hammering it at all. But as it was a second hand unit maybe suddenly been thrown into 24/7 flat chat use could have overstretched it.
-> No smoke, no smell from it.
-> PC just shut down, like it lost power.
-> PC when turned on, starts up for a split second (Radeon and system fans start spinning) - then whole system shuts off.
-> I've "only" got a 430W PSU - though an OK Seasonic one, but the system was idling @ about 100W and using 212W flat chat, so still only half the rated capacity of the PSU.

My PC works fine with the card removed (using onboard graphics).
I have yet to try the card in another PC, I'll do that.

Either my power supply isnt cutting it, or I just killed the card. I have been overclocking the hell out of it and for a few days non stop was running it into the 90 degree temp range running computation stuff.

live and learn! I was getting great framerates on UrbanTerror with it as well compared to my usual onboard Intel graphics

[zog]

.. now I got 2 more second hand Radeon 5770s to replace the one I fried.. taking it easy on the overclocking this time!

wierd transaction, purchased them cash from the guy, met him in the city on the street outside Southern Cross station, he was carrying them loose in his hands, no bag, no box.

they work, though.....

[[DRuG]NikT]

He should have worn a trenchcoat and held it open with them pinned in there for effect.

Shadey.