The recent focus of hardware review websites has been on NVIDIA’s all-new GeForce 480/470 GPUs, but the vast majority of discrete gaming cards are sold with an etail price well below £200, let alone £450.

AMD’s current mid-range graphics card is the Radeon HD 5770, launched in October 2009, and it can be thought of as a Radeon HD 5870 split into two.

Partners have a bevy of retail cards available, ranging from £115 to £150, and, lately, we’ve seen a greater number of in-house-designed models hit the market.

To this end, PowerColor is announcing the ‘ultra-overclocked’ PCS++ HD5770, pictured below.

Clocking in at 875MHz engine and an effective 5,000MHz memory, compared with the default 850MHz/4,800MHz, the PCS++’s higher frequencies aren’t huge. PowerColor reckons that the custom-cooled design, equipped with a slow-spinning 92mm fan, is good for a 950MHz core, however.

Indeed, the company’s CEO had this to say on the overclocking potential of the card: “PCS++ HD5770 is an advanced version of PCS+ HD5770, featured not only factory overclocking and superb cooling ability, but also allows the core speed can run up to 950MHz;” said Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation. “This is the right choice for the enthusiast gamers!”

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