14 DAY TRIAL // There have been quite a few releases of tweaked, redesigned or custom-cooled Radeon HD 5770 graphics cards, with Sapphire, PowerColor and ASUS each presenting their own respective products over the past week and a half. Still, while those models each had a slightly higher factory clock or a special heatsink, they were not exactly all that different from the reference product. MSI's R5770-PMD1G differentiates itself from the fold through its exclusive ability to support the “afterburner” overclocking utility, which not only manages the GPU voltage but also modifies the fan speed according to the temperature.
“MSI R5770-PMD1G supports the over voltage function of GPU by MSI exclusive overclocking utility ‘afterburner’, and the maximum overclocking voltage will be up to 1.300V. The overclocking limitation will be higher, increasing additional performance. If you are looking for an HD 5770 that can easily improve the performance by overclocking, the best choice is MSI R5770-PMD1G for sure,” the official press release revealed.
Apart from the overclocking potential, the CrossFireX-ready card is based on the 40nm manufacturing process and has 800 stream processors. The memory is 1GB of high-speed GDDR5 (at 128 bits and 4800 MHz frequency) and, of course, the card is fully compatible with DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and openGL 3.2 standards. As such, the latest games and HD media are easy pickings for the MSI R5770-PMD1G and the card even has the now famous ATI Eyefinity triple display technology for three times more enjoyable gaming and multimedia. The actual resolution that the card can output simultaneously on each of the three monitors is 2,560 x 1,600 pixels.
Still, despite the features mentioned in the above paragraph, which are really no different from those of the reference model, the new card from MSI is also equipped with a special fan capable of working well with the “afterburner.” The fan speed itself may be modified according to eight different temperature triggers, allowing everything from silent cooling (in idle and low workload modes) to high-speed rotation which, even though not exactly noiseless, will keep an overclocked card's heat in check.
Currently, no pricing and availability information has been provided.