Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 1GB Ultimate GPU review

[HEXUS]

No noise, decent performance, eclectic outputs. The best HTPC card?

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[TooTay]

Certainly the best HTPC card for me, I've been waiting for something like this before I started to build my HTPC.

[Percy1983]

Personally I think the AMD 785G chipset is the best for a HTPC, being based on the ATI 4200 it doesn't do much for gaming but has the features on the better cards when it comes to video decoding etc.

With that for a HTPC with mild gaming in mind this does look quite good.

[chis]

Very tempting, but I wonder if the performance of this card is enough of a jump over my current passive XFX Radeon 4650 to justify the price, and I have my concerns about connecting a dual-monitor setup with 1 via DVI/hdmi and 1 via VGA...

[MonkeyL]

I had the previous version of this card, a 4670 passive, which looks like it had an identical heatsink.

A nice card, but beware, the heatsink makes it unsuitable for many HTPC enclosures. Wouldn't fit in my Antec Fusion, couldn't get the lid back on

[Tunnah]

hmm other post was deleted, maybe too negative, sorry
as its touted as a HTPC review could we please get benchmarks for HTPC tasks like video playback etc. ? and compare against other HTPC focused cards, the market for these types of cards rarely picks em out for gaming

[Tarinder]

But what about giving it some multimedia action to contend with? We hooked up a Pioneer Blu-ray drive and noted temperature and system-wide power-draw over a 10-minute playing of The Dark Knight. Temps averaged 48°C while power-draw hummed along at 86W.

We'll look at the whole IGP vs. discrete card landscape shortly.

[Tunnah]

ah completely my fault, i skimmed over that bit looking for graphs, i'm like a child, skim through the words looking for the purdy picturs!