welcome to my unboxing and first look at the MSI Radeon 7850 power Edition
remember power edition cards feature enhanced thermal performance with twin
frozer coolers this one has the twin frozer 4 and triple over voltage
enhanced pwm design so what is an enhanced pwm design mean basically
better voltage regulation for the memory as well as the GPU core
and full support for triple over voltage
so triple over voltage basically amounts to being able to overvolt the GPU the
PLL and the memory through MSI
afterburner software so we've got a mini DisplayPort to fullsize DisplayPort
adapter included DVI to VGA adapter included some useless discs and manuals
and if you really need to know how to install a graphics card at this point
then I have a video about that so don't worry too much about the paper manual
that comes with your graphics card you got a dual Molex to six pin PCIe
connector because this is a 7850 so you only need one of them it's a very small
very compact card and so you can quite
plainly tell that MSI has done up their
own yeah come
on yeah see the PCI bracket punctured
the bag so I couldn't get it out um so MSI has done completely their own custom
PCB in order to build a be for your pwm as well as just generally a better board
for more overclocking goodness so this
is more of a value oriented card this is like value gaming not uh not like value
cards so you're still going to get dramatically better performance than
you'd get with any kind of an onboard or like you know ghetto lowend card
solution but you're not going to pay a boatload for it and the great thing
about their power edition cards is that while they do cost a little bit more than reference cards it's not that much
considering the extra benefit so you got the twin frozer 4 cooler which basically
means on this particular version this is a small I mean this is a low power chip
and everything you've got three heat pipes that are Fanning out to uh sort of
a radiator style here get you guys a better angle radiator style aluminum
fins that cover the entire length and width of the PCB very very nice very
good cooling you've also got check this out so this piece right here is actually
fully attached to here I'm going to try and get you guys like an angle can you
see in there can you see the full um unisync that's covering the entire card
so that gives this card a lot of rigidity like check this out there's no
flex to it it gives it okay well okay
there is if I grab the cooler but if you actually take the PCV compared to a
regular card it's very rigid is very strong so you have the cooling benefit
of having a heat sink over the all the RAM chips and pwm and then you've also
got the benefit of once you install it in the card it's not going to Sag like a
lot of cards to because they have that Flex so I really like that about this
particular particular design that we've seen on some of MSI's recent cards the
twin frozer 4 has a lot of different things going for it so it's got heat
pipes it's got dual fans it's got uh propeller blades which basically amount
to more air flow and they will spin in Reverse at the beginning this is the
feature of the twin frozer 4 in order to remove dust from the fins before turning
around and spinning the other way to actually cool the card so you'll notice
when you first boot it up it's quite loud but that's normal it's trying to
blow all the dust out of it before it actually starts cooling the card this
mean that you won't have to clean this card out as often as you would with a normal one I also love the look of their
twin frozer cards so they've got like you know MSI sort of silver black thing
going on usually a little color accent thing like that looks really really
sharp um yeah in terms of overall features of the board so it's a little
slower than a 7870 but given the difference in price it's definitely
justifiable it also only uses a single PCIe six pin PCI power connector so
that's a six pin right there not even and8 pin it has full support for
Infinity so supports up to four displays you got two mini display ports on this
card HDMI and DVI out so actually I
think it in theory supports more than that if you daisy chain uh additional
displays but let's go ahead and say four at least for now in fact let's have a
look at what MSI has to say about the card so you got amdi Infinity hd3d which
we've tried in the uh we've got 4K
support which is actually really cool so you can drive a 4K display off this card
that's new with the 7,000 generation of cards deep color and 3 GHz K be media
play power play power tune ah yes 28 nanometer process technology this is an
extremely power efficient card and performance and overclocking are
outstanding given that the price that you're looking at is also fully PCI
Express 3.0 compliant which for a card
like this is not going to amount to any kind of a performance Delta but I mean
there you have it if you have a PCI E3 board and you really want a PC at E3
card you can put this in it you've also
got full support for AMD Crossfire two-way only not three-way so bear that
in mind there's only one crossfire set of Crossfire fingers up at the top and I
think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the 7850 power Edition
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