Sapphire Unveils HD 5770 Vapor-X

[Completely Bonkers]

!!! Can't believe why people are getting excited about this! Are you completely bonkers?

This is a dreadful cooler. No heat pipe. Thick not thin fins. Aluminium not copper. NOTHING under that plastic shroud. It is NOT as good as the standard cooler... and it is priced cheaper. Now you know why...

 

[kylzer]

No RAM cooling...

There are no heat sinks or heat spreaders on the RAM.

Ram runs very cool so theres no need also when overclocking the ram is makes barely any difference its mostly when you overclock the core you can see a big difference.

!!! Can't believe why people are getting excited about this! Are you completely bonkers?

This is a dreadful cooler. No heat pipe. Thick not thin fins. Aluminium not copper. NOTHING under that plastic shroud. It is NOT as good as the standard cooler... and it is priced cheaper. Now you know why...

Its bit better than stock but runs so much quieter as it uses vapor chambers if it didnt it would be crap tbh.

 

[Splave]

wonder if this uses the awesome hynix ics or junk samsung ones. These cards run fairly cool as it is, so im sure this cooler is sufficient

 

[pantherx12]

!!! Can't believe why people are getting excited about this! Are you completely bonkers?

This is a dreadful cooler. No heat pipe. Thick not thin fins. Aluminium not copper. NOTHING under that plastic shroud. It is NOT as good as the standard cooler... and it is priced cheaper. Now you know why...

It uses a vapour chamber instead of heatpipes.

 

[Completely Bonkers]

It uses a vapour chamber instead of heatpipes.

Yes, but in this instance, I think it is mostly driven by marketing - look carefully at this photo:

There is nothing under the shroud. A "vapour camber" is most effective when shifting large amounts of heat relatively large distances... like on the batcar, there are fins all along... and the vapour chamber is "equivalent" to a a whole bunch of heatpipes moving the heat to all points along the large fin arrangement, but a lot easier and cheaper to manufacture.

But in this example, the heat isnt being taken anywhere other than staying under the main fan. You could quite easily achieve this using a solid copper baseplate. I guess the question comes down to how much more effective the nanospreader is (small vapour chamber) than copper. It's probably not as heavy. And may be more effective. We'll have to see.

IMO this is more marketing spin. I doubt it will be more efficient at cooling that the egg, OTHER THAN it has a larger fan. The "nanospreader", in this instance, adds very little. I do agree that vapour chambers are very effective with the larger cooler arrangements.

Nice article here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cooler..._Cooling_Technologies_for_Graphics_Cards.html

 

[MKmods]

Fellas this is a nice card but the stock cooler handles these card very well and frankly the 5770 doesn't need better cooling because it's really not a hot running gpu. I'm not sure how your getting they are loud. If you turn them up yes but at default they are quiet and run well within the temp that ATI requires. As with the 5850 I owned better cooling doesn't seem to help over clocking it might extend the cards life but not your over clocking numbers. That hasn't been my experience with other cards in the past but it is with these new ati cards.

well to me cooler = better so just because ATI says the card can run 80C dosent mean much to me.
To the noise anything over 50% is quite loud on the original cooler (irritating to me especially when I have 2 of them going)

And to the Vapor X cooler, I had several coolers to try out on the 4870s, The Vapor X was at least 5-6C cooler than the Heat tube cooler (with the smashed closed heat tubes) Notice the heat tube coolers are now gone and there are quite a few Vapor X coolers on the new cards...(looks like Sapphire figured it out too)

!!! Can't believe why people are getting excited about this! Are you completely bonkers?

This is a dreadful cooler. No heat pipe. Thick not thin fins. Aluminium not copper. NOTHING under that plastic shroud. It is NOT as good as the standard cooler... and it is priced cheaper. Now you know why...

You are SO wrong on every point....(and because of posts like yours misinformation is spread all over the internet, its fine to have an opinion and express it but make sure you mention its just "ur opinion")

Steel/copper not alum.

And what good are heat tubes when they are smashed closed?

The Vapor X is a superior cooler, its more compact, more efficient and quieter as well.

 

[RedModRed]

Sapphire Vapor-X cooler...

I just bought one from newegg and posted the first review on their site:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102868&cm_re=5770-_-14-102-868-_-Product

For me the cooler works great: 35C to 60C temps. And, nearly totally silent even under full load.

 

[TAViX]

I also bought one, and works great. You cannot hear the cooler even in intense 3D gaming. In Windows I have 32 Celsius for GPU which is great. I also uploaded the Asus's firmware and now I can run it with no problems at 1010Mhz(1237mV) for GPU and 1300Mhz for RAM. I pus some passive coolers on the RAM in the back, so I could probably go much higher than 1300. Unfortunately the performance difference between 1300 and 1450 for RAM is very low, so no reason to overheat the memory.
Does anyone else went beyond 1010 for GPU? What voltage?
Personally I wont put more than 1300mV...