“Now, after talking up the overclocking potential of the military class components and great cooling capabilities of the MSI HD R5770 Hawk, did it live up to it’s overclocking hype? The answer to that question is a resounding, yes! During overclocking the Hawk’s GPU core maxed out at 1025Mhz, which is roughly a 17% overclock and the memory was extremely overclockable as well, reaching a final frequency of 1410MHz before running into any stability issues. These clocks will make this card an absolute value to the overclocking community, but the MSI Hawk isn’t done yet.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
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Military Hawks make a fine HD5770
The MSI HD R5770 Hawk sports military class components, a 7+1 phase unit and a Twin Frozr II GPU cooler all of which points towards great overclocking potential. Out of the box it has an 875MHz core clock and memory at 1200MHz, but with a little tweaking OCC managed to hit a stable 1025MHz and 1410MHz; not a bad jump at all. Of course at those speeds the fan does get a little noisy and those with big monitors will be upset to learn that there is only a single DVI port, but those looking for a great value in GPU power ought to read the full review.