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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the XFX Radeon 5850 now these

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launched at the same time as the 870s

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but the availability hasn't been quite as good for them so let's uh get started

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here and cut the seal there we go so

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it's pretty much based around the same chip the same amount of RAM all that

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kind of stuff but the difference between the 5870 and the 5850 is that it's

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clocked a little bit lower and it's also miss a couple of the of the what is it

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the processing cores or something like that anyway it's clocked at 725 MHz and

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the RAM is clocked at 4.0 GHz instead of 4.8 GHz like the 5870 so let's get this

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sort of shoe box style Box open and like all the 58 70s it comes with a free copy

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of dirt to and then we've got a quick install guide here there you are there's

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your quick install guide then there's a little okay here's a full installation

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guide which is actually not that much longer than the quick install guide but

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that covers the software aspect of things there we go and then we have a

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driver's disc ATI Graphics ATI driver

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you're going to want to download the latest drivers anyway though don't bother with that uh under here we have

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one of these cool uh door hangers do not disturb I'm gaming then inside here we

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have play hard Okay so we've got two Molex to PCI Express six pin adapters

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one crossfire Bridge which is quite normal for a radon on card and then we

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have a DVI to VGA adapter if you're actually still using a VGA monitor which

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uh please get a new monitor because that is quite ancient at this time okay

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inside here we will find the 5850 now

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you can see it's not quite as well padded as the 5870 but it's also a

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slightly smaller card so let's get this

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out let's get this closed and here is

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the 5850 so on the front of the card

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you've got excess effect's graphics and then you've got the same fan they use on

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the 5870 then on the top of the card you can see we've got the ATI radon logo two

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Crossfire Bridges although I've heard performance is actually better if you

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use just one now the back of the card we start seeing a pretty big difference

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here because instead of having a black shroud on the back it's only a bare PCB

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with a back plate so that's quite different from the other card now on the

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back we find two PCI Express six pin connectors and again you're going to

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notice a difference you know what why don't I just grab the other card here for comparison okay so here's the 5870

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compared to the 5850 you can see it's actually quite a bit longer but on the

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5870 the PCI Express connectors are here

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whereas on the 5850 they're at the back so you actually have to account for an

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extra like you probably 2 3 cm for that

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connector and the ca's coming off the back so it's not that much shorter now

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these are both PCI Express 16x cards and they both have the same connectors at

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the back so you can connect up to three three monitors One DisplayPort and then

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you can do either HDMI and DVI or DVI

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and DVI it will not work with HDMI DVI

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DVI and you can't use a passive DisplayPort to DVI adapter anyway thank you for

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checking out my unboxing on the XFX Radeon

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hd5850