Sapphire’s Overclocked to the Max HD 7770 GHz Edition

Unboxing the Sapphire HD 7770 GHz OC edition

The Sapphire HD 7770 GHz OverClock edition comes in a black box with a GI Jane type of picture that emphasises that Sapphire means business with this card.  1GB GGR5, high-speed HDMI and a substantial overclock stand out to catch the consumer’s eye at retail.

The other side of the box is dedicated to the rear view of Sapphire’s mascott and to the card’s features.  The potential buyer at retail can see what is included with the HD 7770 – assorted cables , the driver CD and the quickstart manual.

The end panel is pretty plain.

The specifications are on the other panel.

Opening the box we see that everything is well packed and the HD 7770 card itself comes in an anti-static foam-protected envelope.

Here is everything out of the box.

We see a single molex to 6-pin PCIe connector which suggests that this card is very light on power usage.  Included is a HDMI cable, a DVI to VGA adapter, a HDMI to mini adaptor and a CrossFire bridge for pairing up the performance of two HD 7770s.

Sapphire has created a well designed good-looking card with a large single fan in the center.  There is a single DVI connector, DisplayPort connector and two mini HDMI connectors.

Sapphire has added extra cooling to the card in the form of heatpipes to keep the overclock stable.  There is a single 6-pin PCIe connection.

Turning the card over …

And from the other angle with a good view of the PCIe connector.  This card is easy to fit into most mid tower and even smaller cases as the card is physically short at about eight and one-quarter inches long.

The card looks great!  Let’s take a look at our test system before we benchmark the Sapphire HD 7770 against the HD 6770 and the HD 6870 as well as the GeForce GTX 560, the GTX 560 Ti and the GTX 550 Ti