MSI Radeon HD 5770 Hawk

Cool Mike · Mar 31, 2010

Two Hawks in xfire

I have two in crossfire also. I found that overclocking two has limits. I believe this is due to additioal heat. I have a well ventilated case and am able to overclock to 1010 core 1325 memory. Furmark stabile with 60-70% fan speeds. The 5770 in xfire scales well. I am very happy with the hawks. High quality card.

Footman · Mar 31, 2010

W1zzard said:
noise testing procedure is in the review, card is left at idle with default fan profile and loaded with gputool at default fan profile too. you can also use crysis if you dont like gputool

Perhaps the fan profile with the Hawk is less aggressive on Auto....

BTW is it usual to have single cards that overclock better than the same cards in crossfire?

Athlonite · Mar 31, 2010

as no two cards are the same then OCing will vary for both

Mussels · Mar 31, 2010

Athlonite said:
as no two cards are the same then OCing will vary for both

and then you add higher temps with crossfire, and the extra power draw - having a cheapo motherboard and PSU will hold you back there.

Athlonite · Mar 31, 2010

That is also true OCing should only be done in the right environment ie: quality kit and a case with lots of air flow or water cooling so no cumquat2000 or Kamacuzza components

Footman · Mar 31, 2010

Cool Mike said:
I have two in crossfire also. I found that overclocking two has limits. I believe this is due to additioal heat. I have a well ventilated case and am able to overclock to 1010 core 1325 memory. Furmark stabile with 60-70% fan speeds. The 5770 in xfire scales well. I am very happy with the hawks. High quality card.

Guess I'm unlucky then, I have Raven 2 case so ventilation is good, at 80% fan temps do not go any higher than 78C. Still even with 1.35V I get artifacts at 980mhz, 970 is stable. However I do get 1400mhz from my memory.....

Footman · Mar 31, 2010

Mussels said:
and then you add higher temps with crossfire, and the extra power draw - having a cheapo motherboard and PSU will hold you back there.

Perhaps but I have AsRock X58 Extreme motherboard and CoolerMaster Silent Pro 1200W (Gold) so doubt that either of these is holding me back....

Footman · Mar 31, 2010

Athlonite said:
That is also true OCing should only be done in the right environment ie: quality kit and a case with lots of air flow or water cooling so no cumquat2000 or Kamacuzza components

Haha...

Cool Mike · Mar 31, 2010

Thought I would throw this in. Had a DFI lanparty X48 with hawks in crossfire. The top (closest to CPU) hawk ran 12C hotter than the bottom. This was really hurting my overclocking. Installed the trusty Gigabyte UD3P and all's well now. 33-34C top and 32-33 (Idle)bottom now. Are your temps the same for both 5770's?

DRDNA · Mar 31, 2010

Cool Mike said:
Thought I would throw this in. Had a DFI lanparty X48 with hawks in crossfire. The top (closest to CPU) hawk ran 12C hotter than the bottom. This was really hurting my overclocking. Installed the trusty Gigabyte UD3P and all's well now. 33-34C top and 32-33 (Idle)bottom now. Are your temps the same for both 5770's?

I find that the primary PCIe card runs a little hotter than the other.

copenhagen69 · Mar 31, 2010

great review as always .... bitter sweet moment :toast:

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