VisionTek Killer HD 5770 Combo Graphics-Network Card Review

KitGuru has been a huge supporter of the HD5770 in the past with many solutions walking away with our top awards. As a budget gamer offering it was hard to beat, especially as you can pick up the hardware now for £95 inc vat.

While the AMD HD5770 is due for a refresh over the coming months, it still proves to be a capable, cost effective gaming card for the budget aware audience who are happy sacrificing a little image quality at times. With the less intensive engines, it is perfectly capable of delivering solid frame rates at 1080p.

This Visiontek Killer HD 5770 is an unusual hybrid card which on paper doesn't perhaps make a lot of sense. In the real world however, the combination works great. We have already been singing the praises of the Killer 2100 networking card and have given away a handful of them to our community. It isn't just our staff who like the NIC, the people who won the hardware also seem to be impressed as you can read here and here. As a networking solution it is easily a class leader for gamers who want the maximum performance.

As a gaming card the Visiontek Killer HD 5770 delivers great temperatures (51c), excellent power drain (68w) and low noise levels (32 dBa). Technically there is nothing we can find to fault … as far as HD5770's go its pretty much as good as it gets.

As we mentioned earlier in the review, this card isn't available in the United Kingdom, but looking online we can see that it seems to be retailing for around $195 in the USA. A standard Visiontek HD5770 costs around $150, a Killer 2100 costs $85. Therefore you save $40 and get the added benefit of an all in one solution, saving space and creating a tidier system build.

KitGuru says: A HD5770 is still a capable solution for 1080p gaming, especially if you aren't that bothered about running with high levels of Anti Aliasing. This Visiontek card adds a class leading gaming NIC into the mix.

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