Thread: Power Color Go Green Radeon HD 5750 analyze

AMD’s Radeon HD 5000-series cards are so soon substantially more power efficient than anything in Nvidia’s Fermi adjust but Power Color's Go Green series of cards are masterminded to have even less electrical power than mention design-cards. This passively cooled Radeon HD 5750 attracts all the power it necessities from the PCI Express bus so it doesn’t want a devoted six-pin power cable.

The Radeon 5000-series has another leading advantage over Fermi cards they’re capable of pouring decompressed high definition audio from Blu-ray discs over HDMI. Fermi has the hardware for this but Nvidia has not still published a driver that changes it.

But if you think about it, and the passive cooling makes this particular 5750 is the perfect platform for home theater you build fuhgeddaboutit The oversized dual-slot cooler extends well beyond the edge of the PCB. When we installed in our PC Home Cinema reference design at AMD, in itself, the top edge was a full inch above the mounting of the enclosure.

But to be fair to power of color are not marketing this card as a home theater solution. And if you' re looking for a Blu-ray player, a 5750 with a frame buffer of 1 GB is more than necessary anyway.

Go Green assess 5750 as a playing card midrange though, and you will see that it is much more expensive than competing cards are equipped with conventional heatsinks and fans, in fact, is about the same price as map based on conventional cooling most powerful Radeon 5770th.