WEBVTT 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:15.000 welcome to a very random 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:16.920 unboxing we are in the one and only 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:23.240 slicks room that he 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:23.240 RS and apparently he's 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:32.559 seven do you like his car's light switch 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.399 cover uh no seriously though we are he 00:00:32.559 --> 00:00:38.760 claims he's taking it down this weekend but I don't believe it for a second cuz 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:38.760 I know he loves 00:00:40.879 --> 00:00:46.399 it composure welcome to my unboxing of the 00:00:45.239 --> 00:00:53.120 Radeon hd7970 dual x OC from Sapphire this is 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:59.680 an overclocked card that is based on the 7970 GPU which means you got 3 gigs of 00:00:55.879 --> 00:01:02.399 gddr5 memory at ludicrous clock speeds 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:06.680 you got a 28 nm GPU supporting all of the latest Technologies you've got dual 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:10.479 BIOS which means that you can set different overclocking profiles within 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:16.040 different bioses and it also means that if a flash fails for whatever reason you 00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:20.119 can recover it relatively easily compared to Prior cards the fact that 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.119 it's got the dual x cooler means that you've got significantly better cooling 00:01:22.600 --> 00:01:28.520 than the stock fan and I'm going to be covering that in an upcoming video where 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:33.960 I compare the dual x cooler especially in an overclocked scenario I against the 00:01:30.759 --> 00:01:37.040 reference cooler and uh okay cooler and 00:01:33.960 --> 00:01:39.640 quieter overclock ready PCI Express uh 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:43.040 3.0 is you know what why don't we talk more about the technology once we get 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:50.640 the card open cuz I'm sure that's what you guys want to see not like you know 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:52.200 this and you know that kind of thing you 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:57.759 guys are interested in the graphics card cuz I know what you guys are all about 00:01:53.680 --> 00:02:00.200 all right so here we go we find the 00:01:57.759 --> 00:02:04.920 video card inside I'm just going to put that away and force you guys to uh learn 00:02:03.119 --> 00:02:08.119 about the accessories before you get to see the graphics card itself I haven't 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:11.959 actually seen one of these yet so I'm kind of excited to check it out we've 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:16.480 got an HDMI to DVI adapter so that means the card will support dual DVI out of 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:20.400 the box no problems we've also got a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter which 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:25.120 means you've got all the adapters you need is this uh active or passive that's 00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:31.120 an active adapter so you got everything you need to 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:34.400 run um ifinity out of the box you've got 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:38.959 a four pin Molex to six pin PCIe adapter 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:41.040 and then a oh a dual Molex to a pin PCIe 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:44.159 adapter these are rare I'm going to hold on to 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:48.959 that all right what else we got here mini DisplayPort to sideways big 00:02:46.519 --> 00:02:51.400 DisplayPort good thinking Sapphire and I'll show you why that's important 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:57.680 actually I'm going to set that aside Crossfire Bridge DVI to VGA adapter and 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.280 finally an HDMI cable so that is I think 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:06.720 they even say how long it is on the front includes HDMI cable aha that is a 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.319 1.8 m HDMI cable so that's about 6 ft 00:03:06.720 --> 00:03:13.840 driver installation CD don't worry about that download the latest off the AMD 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.599 website okay registration card cool and 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:20.799 finally a quick start guide showing you how to quickly 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:23.599 start it's a guide all 00:03:20.799 --> 00:03:27.080 right um so let's go ahead and throw that back in there you know what let's 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:36.799 just let's just get all of this out of the way completely okay so this is the 7970 you 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:38.519 know what I just realized it doesn't 00:03:36.799 --> 00:03:43.560 actually say anywhere that this is an overclocked card so I guess we'll find 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:48.239 out if it's an overclocked card I know that it's very easy to turn it into an 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:52.840 overclocked card actually just a sec sorry guys so yeah it's very easy to 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:55.439 turn it into an overclocked card 00:03:52.840 --> 00:04:01.120 using back to the front of the Box the sapphire tricks tweak and overclock 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:06.959 utility for Sapphire graphics card so you can use that to turn up the clock 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:09.280 speed of the card and 797s are already 00:04:06.959 --> 00:04:13.799 renowned for being phenomenal overclockers so I my expectation is 00:04:12.079 --> 00:04:20.120 you'd be able to achieve a fairly significant overclock with this card so 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:22.000 this uses as you can see a completely 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:28.960 non-reference cooler so this is their dual x cooler this has dual 92 mm fans 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:31.919 five heat pipes including two fat you 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:34.960 know pH JT two fat heat pipes and the reason that they're using the two 00:04:33.039 --> 00:04:38.280 thicker ones is because these ones have further to carry away the heat so they 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:41.560 need to be a little bit more efficient than the ones that are located directly 00:04:39.919 --> 00:04:46.880 over the GPU core itself you can actually see where the GPU is right down 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.960 there can you see that cool um just SEC 00:04:46.880 --> 00:04:53.280 no never mind um and those ones are going much 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:58.680 closer to where they're going to be cooled directly by the fan so you can see we got two going off this way and 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:03.800 one going off this way positioning them right under the fan also these fans Not 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:06.120 only cool the GPU itself but also the 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:09.440 components on the PCB so that means your memory which is covered by heat spreader 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.880 so I'm going to show you the sort of the heat spreader is up here and over here 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:18.080 and kind of there yep and it's you can see it here you can also see it down 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:22.199 here you see that heat sink right there that's uh that's covering the vrm here 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:27.680 these ones you can see are covering any of the memory chips any other misscellaneous chips that need cooling 00:05:25.400 --> 00:05:32.440 so they're going to be directly cooled by these fans as well 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:35.600 so finally let's see what else we got here as far as cooling goes that's oh 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:39.880 yeah sorry okay so I always like to cover this compared to the reference 00:05:38.039 --> 00:05:43.479 cooler which is a blower design which exhausts all of the air out the back of 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:48.160 the case these perform significantly better I mean we're talking up to 15 20° 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:52.560 underload better than a reference cooler they're also quieter due to the dual fan 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:55.880 design and the like fat ludicrous heat pipes that are going on however the 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:59.840 drawback is that if you don't have a case with adequate ventilation these can 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:04.919 be a bit of a problem for for the temperatures of the other components in your system so make sure you got a 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:10.560 decent case and then you have nothing to worry about okay moving on uh what do we 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:16.120 got here dual x this actually a pretty slick looking card Slicker looking than 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:20.840 Slick's room but not going to stop harping on that uh 00:06:19.039 --> 00:06:24.479 so power requirements we've got a six pin and an 8 Pin power connector at the 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:29.000 back of the card in their usual locations on the back of the card we see 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:34.160 we got a black PCB which in my personal opinion is more attractive than pretty 00:06:31.520 --> 00:06:38.160 much any other approach to that uh we've got dual Crossfire connectors so you can 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:42.840 configure these in any number of manners in crossfire there's our switches for 00:06:40.280 --> 00:06:45.560 BIOS 1 and two there's your little switch so you can switch between 00:06:44.039 --> 00:06:50.840 different BIOS profiles that you load onto the card next we've got our PCI 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:56.520 Express 3.0 16x slot providing up to double the bandwidth versus PCI Express 00:06:53.720 --> 00:07:01.319 2.0 however that does not turn into a doubling in performance so that's you 00:06:59.400 --> 00:07:05.000 know I mean you might see a couple percentage here and there where you are 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:09.440 bandwidth limited but usually that's not the bottleneck where this is even more 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:15.000 of an advantage is on platforms like z68 or the upcoming z77 where your SLI or 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:20.680 your Crossfire slots are going to be running in 8X 8X mode now PCIe 3.0 8X 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:27.280 has the same bandwidth as the last generation PCI Express 2.0 16x so that's 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:29.120 where you really see uh that play out 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:33.520 well for you okay so in terms of infinity you're going to want to use one 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:38.039 DVI and two mini display ports because um if you're running a 120 HZ 1080p 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:42.759 panel or anything above 1080 or 1920 x 1200 HDMI won't be enough to drive it 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:46.840 however if you are running triple 1080ps then you can go DVI HDMI and one mini 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:53.039 DisplayPort although the car does support up to four outputs using all 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:57.319 four of these connectors bearing in mind though that if you want to use DVI and 00:07:54.680 --> 00:08:03.159 HDMI you have to use an active adapter for the DisplayPort SPS let me just see 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:07.840 if there's anything I've missed here so Crossfire X is AMD ifinity 2.0 so that's 00:08:06.039 --> 00:08:12.199 the next generation of ifinity including support for stereo 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:16.879 3D we covered 3 gigs of memory 3 gigs of memory is a big Advantage versus the 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:21.759 competition so the gtx680 does outperform the 7970 at stock clocks 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:25.440 however once you start overclocking especially if you're not comfortable 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:30.319 overvolting as you guys may or may not have seen in my GTX 680 review the 00:08:27.840 --> 00:08:34.159 performance Gap Narrows significantly and the 7970 starts to look like a 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:37.560 better performer then there's the fact that it also has 3 gigs of memory on 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:42.080 board what that means is if you're running a triple monitor setup you have 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:46.320 to load those textures into the memory of your card regardless because yeah 00:08:44.839 --> 00:08:50.560 Slick's not running a triple monitor setup uh we're laughing at his monitors 00:08:48.760 --> 00:08:55.680 they're awesome um right you have to load all of those 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:59.200 textures into the graphics memory um even if you have multiple cards it all 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:02.240 has to go into each graphics card so the higher higher the resolution you're 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:06.839 running at the more you need that memory especially for modern games and upcoming 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:12.760 games so that's a big Advantage I think for the 7970 for multim monitor Gamers 00:09:10.680 --> 00:09:18.079 and I think that pretty much covers it it also supports 4K displays as well as 00:09:15.880 --> 00:09:24.160 HDMI with 3D and thank you for checking out my 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:27.000 unboxing of the sapphire hd7970 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:30.160 dual x graphics card I look forward to doing a little bit of an overclocking 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:34.320 comparison as as well as Cooling and Acoustics comparison versus the 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:38.399 reference 7970 and I can tell you guys now my expectation is it's going to 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:41.839 absolutely blow it away don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and 00:09:39.880 --> 00:09:46.320 other computer videos sorry guys I promised to talk 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:50.240 about why this was so important and then I totally forgot so this is important 00:09:48.560 --> 00:09:55.160 because once the card is installed in your system and you go like this if you 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:58.399 had two adapters that went this way or even one adapter that went this way 00:09:56.800 --> 00:10:03.399 you'd be blocking other ports with the cable that plugs into it it and with the 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:07.040 wideness of it so that's why this is way smarter than other implementations that 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:10.160 I've seen of these kinds of adapters in the past