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KitGuru has been a huge supporter of the HD5770 in the past with many solutions walking away with our top awards. As a budget gamer offering it was hard to beat, especially as you can pick up the hardware now for £95 inc vat.
While the AMD HD5770 is due for a refresh over the coming months, it still proves to be a capable, cost effective gaming card for the budget aware audience who are happy sacrificing a little image quality at times. With the less intensive engines, it is perfectly capable of delivering solid frame rates at 1080p.
This Visiontek Killer HD 5770 is an unusual hybrid card which on paper doesn't perhaps make a lot of sense. In the real world however, the combination works great. We have already been singing the praises of the Killer 2100 networking card and have given away a handful of them to our community. It isn't just our staff who like the NIC, the people who won the hardware also seem to be impressed as you can read here and here. As a networking solution it is easily a class leader for gamers who want the maximum performance.
As a gaming card the Visiontek Killer HD 5770 delivers great temperatures (51c), excellent power drain (68w) and low noise levels (32 dBa). Technically there is nothing we can find to fault … as far as HD5770's go its pretty much as good as it gets.
As we mentioned earlier in the review, this card isn't available in the United Kingdom, but looking online we can see that it seems to be retailing for around $195 in the USA. A standard Visiontek HD5770 costs around $150, a Killer 2100 costs $85. Therefore you save $40 and get the added benefit of an all in one solution, saving space and creating a tidier system build.
KitGuru says: A HD5770 is still a capable solution for 1080p gaming, especially if you aren't that bothered about running with high levels of Anti Aliasing. This Visiontek card adds a class leading gaming NIC into the mix.
Thats a pretty good product, especially if you need a new gfx and your onboard lan is crap (like mine). I have a HD5770 already and I like it, I only game at weekends and ive found its fine, even with the newer engines on my tv.
Nice product, I like the cooler design, its rather funky looking. HD5770 is a good card, slightly overshadowed by the 460, although with the recent price drops to under 100 quid, its one of the finest value products on the market.
How would I get this into the UK: wouldnt customs be costly?
Finally a good review of this. no one else reviewed it ! Dont know how you guys do it being a Uk site, but kudos!
I want a replacement for my 5450 and I need a good lan card, been waiting for this for ages. just ordered it of newegg as it was 15 bucks less than Dells page which I had my eye on for a month.
thanks!
Yeah I saw Dell are selling this for $205 in the states. 15 bucks less on newegg, which is great.
Didnt powercolor do something similar? im sure its available in UK ?
HD5770 was a great board, its a bit long in the tooth now, although after seeing this one, I can see visiontek are offering something a little different, which is very cool. Like it.
They need to offer the Killer nic on something like a 6950 or 6870,.
I bought one of these for WOW and its transformed my clan games. love it.
Any ideas if they plan to bring this out in any other of their range? I like the idea, but the 5770 wont do what I need.
Great idea, id love to try the Killer NIC myself, but id be downgrading my card. and I dont fancy another slot gone for the dedicated card.
6970 and 6950 please chaps 🙂 Wonder why sapphier or XFX dont do it.
hello kitguru,
question, when if your GTX560 review going to come up? Also could you compare it to the EvGA FTW 460 or OC a GTX460 to those levels.