The roll out of ATI's latest series video cards have put NVIDIA on notice that they are going to compete for both performance and price points. These Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5970 were a one two punch that showed just how well they did there homework. Currently there is not a response from the green team that compares on a like for like basis. So while the high-end is taken care of the mid-range has not suffered either since their Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750 deliver enough horsepower to play today's popular games. This Diamond Radeon HD 5750 that we will be looking at carries an improved cooling solution which is designed by Arctic Cooling, and looks to be very popular. - Overclockers Club

Diamond Radeon HD 5750 1GB Graphics Card Review

The Radeon HD 5750 much like its bigger brothers is one of the first generation of graphics cards that support DirectX 11. As more games become available the Diamond Radeon HD 5750 will be poised to take advantage of this capability. The packaging of the Radeon HD 5750 plays up the Dirt 2 reference with a picture of one of the rally cars used in the game. The front highlights include the mention of the Arctic Cooling, the Dirt 2 reference, DirectX 11 and the 1GB of memory. The rear panel expands on the various benefits of their slogan expand, accelerate and dominate. On the side you get an idea of what Eyefinity is and what it brings.

The Diamond Radeon HD 5750 is built around the 40nm Juniper core and comes with 720 stream processors. The graphics card comes with a red PCB unlike the reference card and is equipped with an aftermarket heatsink from Arctic Cooling that covers most of the front of the PCB. The rear of the board has four of the Hynix memory modules attached. The cooler is rectangular instead of the round style seen on most of the reference cards. Overclocking the Diamond Radeon HD 5750 was a little disappointing. After much trial and error with combination's of speeds we were only able to get to a stable core speed of 800MHz.

Temperatures were not a problem with the Diamond card and did not hinder the overclocking in any way. This Arctic Cooling heatsink did the job it was designed to do by keeping the silicon reasonably cool without a massive noise penalty that ATI cards seem to dish out with a reference cooler. This graphics card is capable of using ATI's Eyefinity multi monitor technology to allow you to a greater level of immersion in the games you play. The obvious game choices to take advantage of this would be rather flight simulators and driving games where the frames of the monitors are not as distracting and you could benefit more views.

The price point for this Diamond Radeon HD 5750 comes in at a cool $152 which puts it below the price point of the Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 260. But it also falls into the performance ladder right in the same spot. Now the Diamond Radeon HD 5750 delivers great mid-range performance for your dollars spend. The Diamond is a good performing, cool running video card that is up to the task of playing the latest games.