XFX HD 5750 Review

RHKCommander959 - October 12, 2009
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Testing:

To test the XFX HD 5750, the card will be used in a range of games and benchmarks to see how well it performs against other competitive products. The games consist of Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead, Darkest of Days, Call of Duty World at War, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II, Batman Arkham Asylum, Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead, and the benchmarks are 3DMark 06 and 3DMark Vantage. After running the card normally through the testing phase, the video card will then be overclocked and then re-tested. The results of the overclocked and stock speed performance can then be compared to see how large of a gain (if any) is made. All of the system settings remain the same from card to card and test to test, with the exception of disabling PhysX where applicable.

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 150x20
Motherboard: MSI X58 Platinum
Memory:Mushkin HP3 12800 7-7-7-20
Video Card(s):XFX HD 4870 1GB HD-487A-ZWFC
Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
Hard Drive: 1 x Western Digital Green 1TB SATA
Optical Drive: LG DVD-RW
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 64-bit SP1
Case: Hiper Osiris

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Overclocking:

Overclocked settings:

XFX HD 5750 845/1385

To overclock the XFX HD 5750, the ATI Catalyst Control Center will be used since the maximum stable overclock fell under the overall limit of 870MHz core and 1430MHz memory. The XFX HD 5750 overclocked roughly 20% extra on both the core and memory to a nice 845MHz and 1385MHz. Fan control is also possible now in the ATI Overdrive suite. Temperatures were in the low 30's at idle and low 60's at load. The R6 driver overclocked the 5750 without any major hiccups except that clock speed wasn't always properly reported. I used other software to verify that the overclock was where it was suppose to be and it was so this bug is only minor.