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so we've got another 5850 unboxing we're unboxing the Gigabyte radon hd5850 so

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we're going to have a look at this fancy box here it's quite a large box for a

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video card so the focus Technologies here are obviously direct X11 support

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and ATI ifinity which is your your three

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Graphics displays all at the same time you know it's funny actually the demo

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they have here is Left for Dead which is exactly what we used in our Radeon uh

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5870 introduction and ifinity introduction that we did on NC Tech tips

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and okay so let's get this box open we got a black box here and when we open it

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we will find the ATI radon series users

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manual and we will find a graphics accelerator driver CD okay so the manual

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also includes instructions for setting up the software as well as installing

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the hardware on your motherboard and enabling Crossfire so that's very useful

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okay then we will find a piece of foam then under the no forget under the foam

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we'll get to that after then we will find a couple of Molex to PCI Express

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six pin adapters a crossfire bridge and

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a DVI to VGA adapter so exactly the same

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accessory package as we found in the XFX card that we already looked at so here's

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the card itself let's get the tape peeled off and you will notice some

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definite similarities between this card and the one that we checked out the

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other day here so first of all okay

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let's have a look at gigabytes custom sticker so they've got kind of a

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metallic looking sticker on the front of the cart itself and then they've got uh

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flipping it around to the back here the same sort of Batmobile looking back end

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with two six pin PCI Express connectors now something to note about the 5850 is

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it's quite a bit less power hungry than the 5870 even though it has the same number

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of power connectors so on the top you can see that covered up by a little

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Gigabyte rubber cover are our two Crossfire Bridge connectors and then on

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the back of the card we've got no shroud like the 5870 just a bare PCB with a

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back plate and then uh yeah you can just see all of the all aspects of this card

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so the 5850 is a little bit slower than the 5870 but you do get quite a cost

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saving so here under here we will find DisplayPort under here we will find

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HDMI I kind of like these little uh these little Port covers I think they're

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kind of neat totally useless but just

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kind of neat then we have two DV connectors so this is a dual slot card

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and you can make use of up to three of these connectors one of which has to be

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the DisplayPort so this is a PCI Express 16x card and for just a quick

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comparison even though we did a full video comparing the 5850 and the 5870

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I'm just going to show you I've got tape stuck on my hand the 5850 versus the

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5870 so there's quite a bit of a size difference there and thank you for

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checking out my video blog on the Gigabyte HD 58 50