We removed the video card cooler to take a look. As you can see in Figure 5, the cooler is very simple, using an aluminum base. It doesn’t touch the memory chips and they have no heatsinks on them.

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Figure 5: Video card cooler.

With the cooler removed you can see that almost all capacitors are solid, which is a terrific feature as they don’t leak (the ones that are not solid are from Elcon, a Chinese manufacturer). Like the memory chips, the transistors from the voltage regulator don’t have a heatsink.

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Figure 6: XFX Radeon HD 5750 with its cooler removed.

XFX Radeon HD 5750 uses eight 1 Gbit Hynix H5GQ1H24AFR-T2C GDDR5 chips, making its 1 GB memory (1 Gbit x 8 = 1 GB). These chips have a maximum transfer rate of 5 Gbps (“T2C” marking), which is equivalent of a 5 GHz GDDR5 clock or 1.25 GHz (5 GHz / 4) real clock. Since on this video card the memory was running at 1.15 GHz, there is an 8.7% headroom for you to overclock the memories with them still running inside their specifications. Of course you can always try pushing them above their specs. In Figure 7 we provide a close-up of the GDDR5 memory chips.

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Figure 7: GDDR5 memory chips.

In Figure 8, you can see all accessories that come with this video card, basically a quick installation guide, a driver CD, a power adapter for converting two peripheral power plugs into one six-pin video card power connector, and a “do not disturb” sign.

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Figure 8: Accessories.