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What better an image to use for a silent, passively cooled card? Sapphire have held with their tradition of rendering women for the front of the box. This time they have opted for a stealthy ninja woman. You can bet that under that face mask she is quite the stunner.
The bundle is good. Sapphire include a software/driver disc, video output converter cables and literature on the product.
Mean and lean. The passive cooler has been overhauled since the HD5670 days, featured rear mounted heatsinks and two thick heatpipes running from the core into racks of aluminum fins.
A warning sticker highlights the stupidity of touching the card when it is in use. The heatsink is sure to get hot as it transfers heat from the core across the surface area. This cooler won't expel heat outside the case either, so good chassis air flow is a must.
If you have a habit of opening your PC case when it is on and grabbing the graphics card when it is plugged into the slot then you might end up burning your fingers. Some might also say you would be an idiot.
The Ultimate Edition doesn't require a PCI E power connector, taking enough power directly from the PCI E slot. This card has a full sized HDMI and Displayport connector, next to a single DVI port. The XFX HD7750 DD we reviewed in February had two DVI ports.
Sapphire have removed the Crossfire connector on this card. It would be useless anyway as the heatsink is designed to overflow behind the card, along the top of the PCB, covering this area.
AMD would be completely lost without Sapphire fixing their messes at times.
Good read. Any chance they could release a passively cooled HD6970 🙂 ?
Heatsink is good, but would that sticker not need to be removed before using it? might melt into the fins.
Great product, good old sapphire never fail to deliver the goods for media buffs.
Ok ill probably get attacked for this, but here it goes.
Why not passively cool the hD7770? I cant see how it runs too hot for a passive cooler.