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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the MSI Radeon 7850 power Edition

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remember power edition cards feature enhanced thermal performance with twin

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frozer coolers this one has the twin frozer 4 and triple over voltage

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enhanced pwm design so what is an enhanced pwm design mean basically

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better voltage regulation for the memory as well as the GPU core

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and full support for triple over voltage

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so triple over voltage basically amounts to being able to overvolt the GPU the

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PLL and the memory through MSI

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afterburner software so we've got a mini DisplayPort to fullsize DisplayPort

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adapter included DVI to VGA adapter included some useless discs and manuals

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and if you really need to know how to install a graphics card at this point

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then I have a video about that so don't worry too much about the paper manual

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that comes with your graphics card you got a dual Molex to six pin PCIe

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connector because this is a 7850 so you only need one of them it's a very small

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very compact card and so you can quite

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plainly tell that MSI has done up their

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own yeah come

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on yeah see the PCI bracket punctured

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the bag so I couldn't get it out um so MSI has done completely their own custom

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PCB in order to build a be for your pwm as well as just generally a better board

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for more overclocking goodness so this

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is more of a value oriented card this is like value gaming not uh not like value

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cards so you're still going to get dramatically better performance than

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you'd get with any kind of an onboard or like you know ghetto lowend card

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solution but you're not going to pay a boatload for it and the great thing

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about their power edition cards is that while they do cost a little bit more than reference cards it's not that much

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considering the extra benefit so you got the twin frozer 4 cooler which basically

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means on this particular version this is a small I mean this is a low power chip

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and everything you've got three heat pipes that are Fanning out to uh sort of

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a radiator style here get you guys a better angle radiator style aluminum

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fins that cover the entire length and width of the PCB very very nice very

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good cooling you've also got check this out so this piece right here is actually

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fully attached to here I'm going to try and get you guys like an angle can you

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see in there can you see the full um unisync that's covering the entire card

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so that gives this card a lot of rigidity like check this out there's no

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flex to it it gives it okay well okay

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there is if I grab the cooler but if you actually take the PCV compared to a

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regular card it's very rigid is very strong so you have the cooling benefit

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of having a heat sink over the all the RAM chips and pwm and then you've also

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got the benefit of once you install it in the card it's not going to Sag like a

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lot of cards to because they have that Flex so I really like that about this

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particular particular design that we've seen on some of MSI's recent cards the

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twin frozer 4 has a lot of different things going for it so it's got heat

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pipes it's got dual fans it's got uh propeller blades which basically amount

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to more air flow and they will spin in Reverse at the beginning this is the

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feature of the twin frozer 4 in order to remove dust from the fins before turning

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around and spinning the other way to actually cool the card so you'll notice

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when you first boot it up it's quite loud but that's normal it's trying to

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blow all the dust out of it before it actually starts cooling the card this

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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

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twin frozer cards so they've got like you know MSI sort of silver black thing

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going on usually a little color accent thing like that looks really really

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sharp um yeah in terms of overall features of the board so it's a little

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slower than a 7870 but given the difference in price it's definitely

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justifiable it also only uses a single PCIe six pin PCI power connector so

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that's a six pin right there not even and8 pin it has full support for

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Infinity so supports up to four displays you got two mini display ports on this

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card HDMI and DVI out so actually I

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think it in theory supports more than that if you daisy chain uh additional

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displays but let's go ahead and say four at least for now in fact let's have a

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look at what MSI has to say about the card so you got amdi Infinity hd3d which

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we've tried in the uh we've got 4K

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support which is actually really cool so you can drive a 4K display off this card

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that's new with the 7,000 generation of cards deep color and 3 GHz K be media

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play power play power tune ah yes 28 nanometer process technology this is an

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extremely power efficient card and performance and overclocking are

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outstanding given that the price that you're looking at is also fully PCI

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Express 3.0 compliant which for a card

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like this is not going to amount to any kind of a performance Delta but I mean

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there you have it if you have a PCI E3 board and you really want a PC at E3

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card you can put this in it you've also

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got full support for AMD Crossfire two-way only not three-way so bear that

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in mind there's only one crossfire set of Crossfire fingers up at the top and I

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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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