A closer look
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The box art it that of a race car with a large fan cooler for the cockpit, this I feel harkens back to a time not too long ago where high performance video cards would run you $600+ I understand that they are going for the performance aspect in terms of packaging. I really like how the packaging is not solely focused on the specs of the card but also on the improved cooling over that of potential competitors. Dirt 3 which comes with this package comes as a download code that you input into AMD’s website to get the code to use on Steam. The card also comes with a VGA to DVI adapter – pretty standard for a DVI only graphics card. Unfortunately it does not come with any support for using the on board display port.
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The PowerColor HD6770 keeps up the Car esque look in actual hardware as well, the fan has fins on the outside that can be used to adjust the angle of the fan so that it blows with the rest of the case cooling. |
| The rear of the card shows the copper heat sink as well as the single 6 pin power connecter that is used in conjunction with the PCI-e bus to power this card and subsequently all connected monitors. |  |
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On the top side of the graphics card you can see the aluminum heat pipes, similar to those that you would find on a CPU cooler. |
| A close up of the rear I/O panel. This panel contains 2x DVI ports 1x full sized HMDI port (1.4a) and a full display port. If you wish to use or more monitors you will require the use of either and active display port adapter or a display port cabled connected to a supporting monitor. |  |
Specs
| Video Memory |
1GB GDDR 5 |
| Engine clock |
850 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1200MHz x 4 ( 4.8Gbps) |
| Memory Interface | 128bit |
| DirectX support | 11 |
| Bus standard | PCIE 2.1 |
| Connections | 2x DVI, HDMI, VGA (adapter), Display Port, Crossfire |
| Dimensions | 182mmx111mmx38mm |
Atleast if AMD HD 7770 comes with no power cord and less power, also Llano FM2 supporting integrated crossfire with HD7770 to double the performance, at a price tag around 250$ for both combined, then AMD can take Intel and Nvidia both out of the 100$ to 200$ processor and graphic cards segment respectively