We're starting to see a wave of non-reference Radeon HD 5000-series products. Throughout the course of the month, we've seen custom-cooled Radeon HD 5750s from ASUS and HIS, as well as a completely passive solution from PowerColor.
Turns out the latter is also turning its attention to the Radeon HD 5770, and will be giving the AMD GPU an Arctic Cooling makeover later this month.
PowerColor's card, pictured above, is dubbed the PLAY! HD5770 and features a 92mm Arctic Cooling heatsink and fan that promises to reduce fan noise whilst increasing air flow.
Despite the supposedly-improved cooling, the card ships with stock frequencies - an 850MHz GPU and 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at an effective 4,800MHz. Given that AMD's reference cooler does a stellar job, PowerColor's non-reference design will be hard pushed to go one further. If it does, however, there could be some decent overclocking headroom to play with.
The card sports HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort connectivity, and PowerColor expects it to arrive at retail on November 30th priced at US $159.
