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DA Radeon HD5830 Review

Radeon HD5830, Red Warrior from Digital Alliance

Digital Alliance (DA) does not only diligently poured graphics card with a graphics processing unit (GPU) from NVIDIA, but it also marks Homeland often adopt a GPU from AMD. One is the Radeon HD5830, which appears like a knight.

Choice-based DirectX 11 graphics card is now more diverse, and the price is more affordable. Thus users should be eased further to determine the appropriate selection needs.

This time we had one of Digital Alliance graphics card equipped with a Radeon HD5830 GPU. Not much different with its predecessor, this graphics card also offers performance and image quality is good.

Reliable Performance

Since the emergence of HD 4000 series graphics cards, AMD does offer GPU is loaded with features captivating series of good performance. It is increasingly improved with the presence of HD5000 series, including the HD5830.

Although the family was present as the youngest of HD5800 series, not the means to make these products are not able to play high profile games. To test our toughness tested with some games like Resident Evil 5.

The result, though pushed up to 1920 X 1080 resolution, graphics card is still able to show it claws by obtaining an average frames-per-second (FPS) 66. So even with a variety of benchmark applications which successfully undergone well.

Powerful coolant which Cheap and Impressed

By operating at a clock speed of 800 MHz for the GPU and 1GHz for memory clock speeds, making the Radeon HD5830 cooling requires qualified. And it seems to have been applied DA on one of its products.

Coolant is supplied to the DA Radeon HD5830 has a number of heat pipes as much as 3 units. So already be ascertained, the temperature on this product would be well preserved.

Not only can keep the temperature to remain optimal, but also included cooling not issue a disturbing noise. This is because the cooling fan rotates only 56%, then only in a state of maximum load.

Although runs with applications that drain the ‘energy’ GPU, the temperature at this product also considered good enough. The testing carried out, in an open room and refrigerated air conditioning, the temperature was in the range of products 69 degrees.

Although performing well spelled out, but it looks cooler that comes very simple, cheap and even impressed. There is not any inherent feature, users only see the logo of DA as brand name of this product.

It was a little unfortunate. Section, if packaged with other motifs of this product will appear more impressive. Moreover, DA Radeon HD5830 has a fee that is big size.

With priced at USD 250 price range, make this product worth considering when the user wants to buy a graphics card. However, if the coolant is packaged better, probably will have its own value to prospective owners.

Pros:
+ Reliable Performance
+ No Heat
+ No Noisy

Disadvantages:
- Cooling Impressed Cheap

Benchmark Results:
Resident Evil 5: 66FPS
3D Mark 2006: 17944th
3D Mark Vantage: P13866

Specifications:
Graphics Engine: ATI RADEON HD 5830
Bus Standard: PCI Express 2.0
Video Memory: 1GB GDDR5
Core Clock: 800 MHz
Memory Clock: 4.0GHz (1000X 4)
Memory interface: 256 bits
Shader: 1120 (Unified)
Max Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Video Out Function: DVI, HDMI, Display Port
HDCP / HDTV / HDMI: Yes, Yes, Yes
Packages: Manual, Drivers CD, 1x DVI Adapter, DA HD5830 Cards, 1x PCI-E VGA Power Cables, CrossFire cable.

In reviewing this product, use-based system: Processor Intel Core i7 965, Intel DX580SO, Corsair HX1000W, Corsair Dominator 6GB kit, WD Raptor 300GB, ASUS VH226, the ATI Catalyst ™ release 10.2 and the operating system Windows 7.



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