Sappire HD 6770 anyone ?

**Steapa Snotor** · July 03, 2011, 01:21 PM

I have a £100 budget and Ive seen this card http://www.ebuyer.com/product/266530. What sort of settings is it capable of ?
I'm going from a HD4670 512Mb, and will be using a Q8300 with 4GB ram. Is this a good card for the price?
Thanks.

**Freddie** · July 03, 2011, 02:58 PM

The 6770 made it to retail? I thought that card was only meant for OEM's. Damn you AMD that's a poor stroke you just pulled and let me explain why.

Don't bother with the 6770 for £100, the HD5770 can be had for £80 and it's the exact same card and chip. No tweaks, no extra features, same manufacturing process, it's an exact duplicate which has been re-branded from a 5 series to 6 series to keep OEM's happy.

4670 to a 5770/6770 that's going to be huge boost in performance BUT if you have that sort of budget I would strongly advise you to get this card instead which is even quicker then the 5770 (and quite a bit as well).

**Steapa Snotor** · July 03, 2011, 03:19 PM

Funny you should mention the 5770 because i was looking at http://www.ebuyer.com/product/262260 right before i seen the 6770. Do you have any experience with the site you linked ?

I thought the 6850 would of been out of my range. Gpu's change so often i find it really hard to keep up with what's good and bad.

Thank you.

**Freddie** · July 03, 2011, 04:24 PM

I've used Ebuyer and Scan before both are perfectly reputable companies but I've never done any business with the other site I linked to but they do have plenty of reviews on Google so as far as I can tell their reputable. The other place you can pick up a HD6850 is from Pixmania, their a huge company and I wouldn't think twice about buying from them.

If you not sure about what your buying I suggest you use Anandtech's DX11 bench page which compares all the major video cards also their reviews are pretty good as well. Looking at the raw specs and not any benchmarks on paper a 4870 which is about the same as a HD5770 is twice as power as a 4670 and a 6850 is about another 40% on top of a HD5770 providing you have the CPU that won't bottleneck it and the games and resolution to make your card work for its money.

**Devilmaypoop** · July 03, 2011, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by Freddie

their a huge company and I wouldn't think twice about buying from them.

I second buying the 6850. Also, don't be deceived by Pixmania, they are absolutely horrible. Their packaging is utter garbage, same is arrival times and everything. It took for my Sapphire 6870 like a month to arrive, and support wouldn't answer or help at all for the whole time.

**Steapa Snotor** · July 04, 2011, 12:26 AM

Wow thanks, thats really helped me out i appreciate it.
6850 here i come, now i just need to let the missus know

**Crazyeyesreaper** · July 03, 2011, 08:34 PM

In all honesty save up the extra $15 quid and get the 6850

powerconsumption of the 5770 and 6850 are extremely close so both are easy to run in a entry lvl PC as in most PSU's with a single 6pin will run the card without breaking a sweat

and really $15 quid? thats a tiny step up for nearly 35-40% performance gain,