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Sapphire Radeon HD 5570
As per AMD's reference specifications for this board, Sapphire's offering ships with 1GB of GGDR3 clocked at 900MHz and with a core clock speed of 650MHz.
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While this card's GPU might have more in common with the Radeon HD 5670, the PCB and board design itself bears a closer resemblance to the Radeon HD 5450, providing us with a low-profile card that will fit in the smallest of chassis. While the Radeon HD 5450 is treated to an entirely passive cooling solution, Sapphire's Radeon HD 5570 comes equipped with a small, single slot active cooler with fan.
As you'd expect, this card requires no additional power, with the PCI Express 16x slot providing all of the juice required. The usual CrossFire inter-GPU connectors are also absent here, although two (or more) Radeon HD 5570 boards can still be run in a CrossFire configuration, with data sent over the PCI Express bus instead.
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The rear of the board features four of the card's eight GDDR3 memory modules packed into a small area on the PCB.
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In terms of display outputs, this particular card ships with VGA, DisplayPort and dual-link DVI connectivity, with Eyefinity support still available to the card with this particular configuration - Although of course multi-monitor gaming won't be on the cards here. If you need HDMI support instead, then the DVI connector can be converted to HDMI complete with audio output, although the required adapter isn't included within Sapphire's bundle.
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Eight of Samsung's K4W1G1646E modules make up the card's 1GB of GDDR3 memory here, rated to the 900MHz at which they are clocked on this board.
Packaging and bundle
That's the card covered, now let's have a look at the board's retail packaging.
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Our usual lovely Sapphire lady makes an appearance on the board's box art, while the box itself is surprisingly chunky for this size and level of board.
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Product highlights dominate the rear of the box art as you might expect, while said Sapphire girl practices for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing. Or something.
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Given the price point this board targets there's no plush bundle here, with the card coming with a couple of low-profile adapters (allowing you to utilise all three outputs across two low-profile expansion slots if you so desire), a paper manual and driver CD, and a copy of ArcSoft's SimHD plug-in for Instant Messaging applications.
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