ATI Radeon HD 5770: My FIRST Graphics Card - Tested in 2023! 

This was also my first gpu i bought new, though bit later in October 2010 about 3 months after i built my first gaming pc at the time. athlon II x3 445 3.1 ghz, 2x2 gb ddr3 ram & initially HD 3650 512 mb ddr2. A sapphire hd 5770 lite 1 gb. I still had a crt monitor until around summer 2012 lol. But was a night & day change still going from a hd 3650 ddr2 512 mb which struggled with left 4 dead 2 too the hd 5770. Still works fine & still overclocks poorly lol. Think it topped out at 900 mhz core & between 1280 - 1350 mhz memory before it just crashes entirely while stock is 850 mhz core & 1200 mhz memory so mediocre overclocks really. Was my temporary spare card when my r9 280 died summer 2020, could have used my previous hd 6870 but eh 5770 was quieter then that card & performance wasn't hugely different between the two, at least not on that athlon cpu. (Was already putting aside money too rebuild my pc so picked up my still current 1660 super oc from gigabyte for 221 usd & then money went too other things until i started later in Summer 2022 too buy parts slowly, like used am4 motherboard, DDR4 ramkit & finally the ryzen 5600 & had it built December 1st 2022.) The hd 5770 still did cs go, borderlands 2 rather then 3, killingfloor 2 (surprisingly yes it runs.) Team fortress 2, killingfloor 1, trackmania nations forever & trackmania 2 alright with my I5 2500k system. Couldn't get it too post on my new rig with a Ryzen 5600 after i had done the bios flash too get that cpu supported, but might just need too use a lower pci-e slot or set up pci-e slot too run in 2.0 mode before changing out the gpu there.

@@Mini-z1994 Wow, thanks for sharing your experience with us! :)

You're so right! It's quite shocking what kind of performance we used to get back then for our money... :')

Wow, you're truly one of those long-time followers! Now that you mentioned that HD 7750 video I remember it. Boy, did I produce crappy videos back then... Haha! xD Still, lots of nostalgia... :)

@@Nicolas11x12English yep, i havent followed your channel that much but i always checked it from time to time. I also think that your yearly videos were quite decent because at that time, youtube was a wild west, nobody knew what they were doing really :D Production quality expectations has come a loooong way since then ^^

Thank you very much! :)

Can you recall what games you played in crossfire ? I still run the 5770 and was considering getting a 5870 or doing a 5770 crossfire set up but unsure of what games would really support it

​@@thebutcher1412I have the same video card, but! I've run absolutely every game on this list. Apart from RDR and cyberpunk, everything was ok if you set it to 720p, and it also recorded and recording takes 10-15% of performance

Then in FPS it’s exactly 30 frames taken by the video recording, which means the real FPS may be higher. Radion is good but why does everyone say bullshit?

Woah, that's quite impressive! :D

It was awesome, indeed. :)

Woah, that's quite the achievement with an HD 4350! :o Thank you for watching and commenting! :)

Indeed, the HD 4870 was a beast at the time. I've heard and seen lots of good things, but never owned one. Well, a few years ago a buddy of mine sent me over one of his old one. So technically I do own one, but not back then. :D

Indeed. Back then upgrade costs were still quite "reasonable", which can no longer be said today... :(

Yes, indeed. :)

Thank you so much!

@@Nicolas11x12English Can you share your RTSS settings? Your overlay looks so much cleaner than the standard Afterburner fonts and colours.

​@@FatCatFanatic Thank you! I just fired up MSI Afterburner and these are the settings I went for: In the MSI Afterburner settings, go to the Monitoring tab. Uncheck all, but make sure the following are checked: Framerate, Framerate Avg and Framerate 1% Low. Then click on Framerate, make sure "Show in On-Screen Display" is checked. Further down below unter "Graph limits", make sure "Override group name" is checked and enter your custom text such as "FPS". Then repeat the steps with Framerate Avg and Framerate 1% Low and name them "AVG FPS" and "1% LOW", respectively or something similar. Now go back to "Framerate" again and right next to "Show in On-Screen Display" you'll see a button with three dots in there "..." Click on it and scroll down to "Group color". Then find "Framerate", "Framerate Avg" and "Framerate 1% Low" on the list. Double-click the FF......numbers next to it and change to your preferred color on the list. Once you're done, hit Apply and OK. Once that layout display window is closed, hit Apply and OK in the Afterburner settings, too. Next we want to change the font, size and background of the on-screen display. Go down to your system tray and double-click on the RTSS icon. Make sure the On-Screen Display rendering mode is set to "Raster 3D". Click on the Raster 3D and select your preferred font. I chose "Arial", set the font style to "Black" and leave the size at the default "5". Then click on OK. Then I also have enabled "On-Screen Display shadow" and "On-Screen Display fill". You could also click on the color dot next to "On-Screen Display palette" and choose a custom color, but that never does anything for me, because MSI Afterburner overrides those settings with its own fixed or set colors. Finally, you can change the size of the text, which will also depend on the screen resolution. So you'll have to play around a little bit with your "On-Screen Display zoom". And that's pretty much it. I hope my steps could help you out. I tried hard with this one. :)

@@Nicolas11x12English Thank you so much! 😃

I liked those, too. :)

To be honest, I haven't even heard of those until now. It's something I probably should look into someday. :)

I haven't even heard of that yet. Maybe I should look into that someday. :)

:D

That’ll be the day I’ll be able to afford one possibly, 2. Currently in the market for a PS4, this usually comes with a handful of games too at half the cost of retail. Its smart to wait out all the commercial uproar and its still just as fun. That’s why the market for cheap handhelds with old school gaming is booming. People pay extra to feel relevant when in reality its a complete waste of money unless your making money reviewing these inflated products. But hey, thanks for funding future technology.

The HD 4870, another legendary card.

Awesome, I still remember the Sapphire version to this day. It was the card I actually wanted, not this one by GIGABYTE. Haha! :D

@@Nicolas11x12English I bought an MSI HD 5850 Twin Frozr II back in the day, but it was dead on arrival, so I sent it back and got a Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic instead. The MSI Twin Frozr line was iconic in its own right, but the Sapphire Toxic cards were legendary. Also probably the coolest looking card I've ever owned.

Oh man... you must've been pretty upset. :(

Indeed!

Wow! I guess, your parents didn't approve buying a new graphics card? :(

@@Nicolas11x12English yeah they hated me playing games but i did it anyway😁 no one cant keep a gamer down💪

​@@funivids1995 age: i am no one we:😢

Indeed! :D

I think I already upgraded in 2011, but it could be 2012 too. I no longer remember exactly. :D I initially bought the HD 5770 in April 2010, that's for sure. :)

Heck, my Sapphire 5770 lasted until 2017. Helps that Intel's monopoly and CPU stagnation during that decade had also caused game requirements to stagnate. (And being from Sapphire, was able to be overclocked to the stratosphere without losing stability.)

Me too! :)