so i wanted to do a quick video as a follow-up to our 5970 unboxing on just
how big this card is and what it's going to take to get it to fit in your case so
one case that i had on hand here a built that i've been working on and has torn
apart right now i apologize for the state of it this is the Corsair obsidian
800d case though and i just wanted to show for scale
the kind of monster case that you need to fit one or heaven forbid even two of
these video cards so we're installing it in our pci express slot here and there's
a couple things i want you to note about this first of all how much overhang
there is from a standard size atx board you're pretty much going to need a case
that supports eatx or has a lot of
clearance past the edge of the motherboard if you want this card to fit
another thing to note is that it's very important to choose a motherboard that
has right angle SATA slots because you can see there's two two and two of the
SATA sport SATA ports on this motherboard are actually directly under
the video card we can't access them if they were right angle then we'd be able
to plug them in from the side even under the video card now the last thing i
wanted to kind of show you just for perspective here is a couple generations
ago this was a reasonably high end card this is a 3850 okay so for for size
comparison that's what it looks like compared to the 59 70. just ridiculous
so oh actually one more thing you want to be very careful with your system once
you've got this installed so you put in your two screws but you got to think
about this the only thing supporting this card is your pci express slot and
two screws over here you want to be careful not to jar your system or ship
your system potentially unless you've done everything you can to secure this
card in place because it can put a lot of strain on your pci express lut thank
you for checking out my installation video for the Radeon 5970