A very good deal for a passively cooled mid-range video card. 30% less than equivalents.
Great for a home theatre PC.
Gigabyte ATI HD5750 Silent Cell GPU $93 Shipped
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ditto, i have one in my main PC running a 30" dell (2650x1600) and still plays most games with no issue. some new games are starting to need to have settings turned down but still a very capable gaming card. in a HTPC would be even better.
i am still using HD3870 to play DOTA2.
Nice deal, are there current generation 77xx passivly cooled GPUs available?
Not going to give you all the answers here, but 2 minutes on Google will tell you pretty quickly. Indeed the offerings do seem to be about 30% more than this deal.
What I meant to ask was how does this compare to current gen models. Scrimshaw provided the answer below.
FYI the Sapphire Ultimate 7750 goes for around $123.
http://www.arc.com.au/pub.php?gid=24344&pid=43304&p=productIf you intend to play games, get the 7750 instead.
If you're building a HTPC — no gaming— most people can get by using Intel HD4000 or built AMD APU graphics.
The 7750 will also run cooler and require less PSU wattage compared to this old card, since has a TDP of 55 watts, compared to 86 Watts, which is a fairly big difference (also means extra heat!).
Better to get the HD 7770 it's a much better card $110.00 http://www.msy.com.au/product.jsp?productId=8935
Except not silent?
But the 7770 you linked is not a silent card (if the pic is correct)… I have a very noisy XFX 6870 but would have to check if the 7750 linked above performs any better.
any better alternatives? i want to replace my 3870, but dont want to spend hundreds of dollar :D
$110 for a 7700 seems a quite good deal.
@ Sarakoth
You would be downgrading your card if you swapped your 6870 to a 7770 / 7750
www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/536?vs=540
Either keep your 6870 and buy a new cooler for it, or buy a much faster one like 7870.
Thought that might be the case off the top of my head.. yeah been looking at a 7870 but want to find a quiet one. :) thanks for the info scrimshaw
Probably overkill for HTPC, Asus' silent low end cards do the job and do not consume as much power. Still, positive for Gigabyte's effort in making a mid-range card silent.
Agree, especially for n40l microservers since the CPU is the bottleneck.
do you guys think this card will fit a hp micro server the NL40?
anyone use NL40 to play games? what games do you play? black ops 2?
looks like it'll use 2 slots - so maybe it won't fit
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1893943&#…
According to WP, you will need a Low Profile card. So this card is a no-go since it takes up 2 slots.
Despite appearances this is a pretty big card, so it may not be ideal for certain HTPC cases.
Bought the Asus HD6450 for my N40L from MSY. They also have the 5450 for a bit cheaper which will apparently do the job from googling other people's N40L setup. Both 5450 and 6450 looks exactly the same when the guy at MSY showed me out of the box. The 6450 fits with room to fit another PCIe x1 card in the adjacent slot. The 6450 fits in the PCIe x16 slot in the N40L.
I've had one of these in a HTPC / casual gaming PC for a while. Works well for most recent games at 1080p (not highest detail on latest generation) but gets very hot during gaming unless your case is well vented.
Just be careful for people running the Antec 2480 series of HTPC cases - I can't properly fit the lid of the case when this card is fitted because the heatpipes stick up too far.Thanks.. I have an Antec 2480, great case, but find it's a bit fiddly with some things.
It used to be that PCcasegear had OK prices, shipping to Melbourne probably OK but interstate was very expensive, so I'm not sure what "shipped" means here.
I'm still using a Gigabyte 5750 which I've been using since since 2009, very quiet card =)
I have a 7970 in my drawers but haven't bought other parts yet to use it.If you're after passive cooling for silence, why not just get a sandy/ivy CPU and use the built in Intel HD3000/4000?
Agreed. Unless you are a massive HTPC videophile nutjob who thinks they can see the difference between MadVR and normal person video rendering, you will be 100% fine with HD3000/4000 or the AMD solutions. They're cheaper, cooler and use less power.
Good card, I still use the HD5770 to play most new games in med-high at acceptable frame rates on 1920x1080. For HTPC purposes it will handle anything very, very well. Good deal for silent too.