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A low profile AMD ATI Radeon HD5750 tips up
GRAPHICS CARD MAKER Powercolor has released a low profile board based on AMD's ATI Radeon HD5750 chip.
Based on the card's low profile, the firm seems to be punting it towards home theatre PC (HTPC) owners who typically use smaller chassis. Unlike most low profile boards however, Powercolor's HD5750 card has two fans on the heatsink in order to keep things cool.
Generally HTPC owners prefer passive cooling to reduce noise, however Powercolor insists, "The design cools temperatures and dissipates heat for vital components within a limited space." In the end, the firm seems to be pushing the HD5750 Low Profile Edition to those who it says "desire the upgraded graphics performance without having to compromise their system size."
While the inclusion of two fans might put off HTPC owners, this sort of low profile card could be just the thing LAN partygoers look for when building a smaller machine to lug around the country. Though the HD5750 isn't AMD's high-end chip, it is still a pretty decent price and performance combination.
Powercolor is running the HD5750 chip at 700MHz while the 1GB of memory is clocked at 1.15GHz. Though the board is low profile, thanks to the hefty heatsink and fan, the whole shebang is a dual slot affair. The board still manages to cram in three outputs with HDMI and DVI outputs as standard and a detachable D-SUB output available, too. The company also bundles in a low profile bracket that forces users to forego the D-SUB connector completely.
Gamers looking to travel a little lighter might consider slotting one of these boards into a micro-ATX system before heading off to the next fragfest. µ
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@User:
alternative? yeah - buy a bigger box. ever heard the saying 'you can't have your cake and eat it'?
although if you see my previous posts you'll realise that you can have a slice and still admire the rest...
Low profile, but two slots? Sorry, that does not compute. And neither does it fit into my computer (ITX enclosure).
Besides, I bet the jet engines (formerly known as fans) also run during normal operation.
Alternatives? Anyone?
"a low profile bracket that forces users to forego the D-SUB connector completely."
Why on earth is provision for the D-SUB not made on the blanking plate of the second slot?
"Point is if you want a dedicated HTPC system you need to run Linux and the only Graphic solution available to decode those nice HD Channels comes from the Green Goblin (i.e. nVidia), and there VDPAU decoder for Linux."
Dear Anonymous, I have a Radeon 4200 decoding videos just fine using a combination of mplayer vaapi and fglrx.
Thank you.
@Poindexter: my low-profile htpc with a hd 5570 can run crysis on high/very high at 720p at about 30fps.
@Anonymous: a htpc doesn't have to have a tv receiver built in, in fact they often don't. although of course everyone has different needs and i appreciate your point about the inadequacies of both Windows and AMD/ATI when it comes to more specialist requirements.
surly not...
First of all we can toss out Microcraps crappy MCE's 'cause there aint a single version out there that can do DVB-C (i.e. Digital Cable), and since I happen to live in an area where I'm prohibited from using a Satellite Dish this doesn't leave me much choice and DVB-T ~in Germany~ is a sad, sad joke, I don't even watch that crap on Cabe (when it was free ~as it still is~) to want to waste more money on such a solution.
Point is if you want a dedicated HTPC system you need to run Linux and the only Graphic solution available to decode those nice HD Channels comes from the Green Goblin (i.e. nVidia), and there VDPAU decoder for Linux.
AMD/ATI have been promising something of a similar nature for last few years now. And, I for One am still waiting...
I don't know why low profile == HTPC.
I built a low profile machine for it's reduced size and had a hard time finding a decent performing video card.
Likewise, with decent fan throttling one can comfortably watch DVDs and BRs with a fan-fitted video card.
Launch Crysis and things change, though...
"Aimed at no one in particular."
Not quite. It's aimed at users like me that want alot of gpu power in a low profile box. I doubt that those two fans would be a noise issue at low speeds (I already have four fans in my HTPC/gaming system that are pretty much silent at low speeds), and this would definitely make for a nice upgrade from my HD 5570.
Why when we see low profile card previews they are always are with a full height bracket?