so we've got another 5850 unboxing we're unboxing the Gigabyte radon hd5850 so
we're going to have a look at this fancy box here it's quite a large box for a
video card so the focus Technologies here are obviously direct X11 support
and ATI ifinity which is your your three
Graphics displays all at the same time you know it's funny actually the demo
they have here is Left for Dead which is exactly what we used in our Radeon uh
5870 introduction and ifinity introduction that we did on NC Tech tips
and okay so let's get this box open we got a black box here and when we open it
we will find the ATI radon series users
manual and we will find a graphics accelerator driver CD okay so the manual
also includes instructions for setting up the software as well as installing
the hardware on your motherboard and enabling Crossfire so that's very useful
okay then we will find a piece of foam then under the no forget under the foam
we'll get to that after then we will find a couple of Molex to PCI Express
six pin adapters a crossfire bridge and
a DVI to VGA adapter so exactly the same
accessory package as we found in the XFX card that we already looked at so here's
the card itself let's get the tape peeled off and you will notice some
definite similarities between this card and the one that we checked out the
other day here so first of all okay
let's have a look at gigabytes custom sticker so they've got kind of a
metallic looking sticker on the front of the cart itself and then they've got uh
flipping it around to the back here the same sort of Batmobile looking back end
with two six pin PCI Express connectors now something to note about the 5850 is
it's quite a bit less power hungry than the 5870 even though it has the same number
of power connectors so on the top you can see that covered up by a little
Gigabyte rubber cover are our two Crossfire Bridge connectors and then on
the back of the card we've got no shroud like the 5870 just a bare PCB with a
back plate and then uh yeah you can just see all of the all aspects of this card
so the 5850 is a little bit slower than the 5870 but you do get quite a cost
saving so here under here we will find DisplayPort under here we will find
HDMI I kind of like these little uh these little Port covers I think they're
kind of neat totally useless but just
kind of neat then we have two DV connectors so this is a dual slot card
and you can make use of up to three of these connectors one of which has to be
the DisplayPort so this is a PCI Express 16x card and for just a quick
comparison even though we did a full video comparing the 5850 and the 5870
I'm just going to show you I've got tape stuck on my hand the 5850 versus the
5870 so there's quite a bit of a size difference there and thank you for
checking out my video blog on the Gigabyte HD 58 50