discussion MSI Giving HD5770 Cooler a Makeover

[FiXT]

MSI is releasing an update to its stock HD5770 (model 5770-PM2D1G) cooler, taking some design cues from the HD 5750 and adapting the cooler into something the company feels, should be more capable of better cooling the card, than the ATI reference design. The updated cooler is speculated to replace the standard SKU, although it may be relabelled as... [ Read full article ]

 

[mattlef]

lol so in other words, they're doing what everyone else is doing with the 5770 lol,
here I'm thinking "wow..... msi is going with a non-reference cooler"....

sigh, a well written press release however

 

[SKYMTL]

PCB design has also changed a bit according to MSI. On the other hand, like you said: literally every other manufacturer is porting the HD 5750 cooler over onto the HD 5770.

 

[Dr_BenD_over]

4770 fan recycled

 

[kiwik]

I tested it tonight and although I haven't tried the original 5770, the V2 one feels like they are cutting production costs. Also nothing on the memory except airflow. The cooler feels cheaper, even if the fan is slightly bigger, there is nothing to cool down the VRM section except a bit of air from the fan. There are missing capacitors from the reference design also, even tho they are still using the original PCB with the drawing for the old cooler.

Sucks they changed a perfectly fine cooler for this crap. The "new" cards will probably overclock lower than the first batch, oh well.

 

[Postumus]

looks cheap and ugly

 

[ayah]

That fine cooler was more expensive than this model. Thus, the switch. If you can get by with something cheaper, why not?

 

[Postumus]

I suppose it is selling well enough they don't think this will hurt sales much/at all. The original seemed more robust/appealing.