did an installation guide like this a little while back but I thought I'd do
one for the Radeon 6870 since in my opinion it's going to
be a very popular card so the first
thing you're going to want to do is make sure that you have enough space in your
case and that is means in terms of length so if you have hard drive cages
that are positioned uh just to the right of your motherboard or if you have any
other obstacles that might be there the 6870 is about the length of a
motherboard so it should be in fact it is exactly the length of a motherboard
standard apx motherboard so it should be
fairly easy oh okay not quite exactly I'm sorry it's just like almost exactly
there you can see how close it is so it should be fairly easy to eyeball based
on that whether there is enough room in your case another thing to bear in mind
is this is a dual slot card and you're going to want the next one over free or
at least okay so let's say here theoretically you've got your card installed here in the top slot okay and
there's one in the next one but it's like a short one like that killer neck
right there as long as that fan has Breathing Room you should be in pretty good shape so the fan down there all
right so that's another thing to bear in mind you do need two slots so you got
two mounting screw points right there other things you will need you will need
two PCI Express six pin power connectors
so in my case uh that is check and check
these are both 6 plus 2 pins so they can be plugged into either a six pin or an 8
Pin slot on on a graphics card so from there you take off the screws which I
have already done oh no no no okay take off your side panel which I have already
done you take off your screws which I have apparently already done you
position the card after grounding yourself which means touching the power
supply while it's plugged into the
wall there's a cat okay so you position
it above the slot making sure that you've here's a common mistake make sure
this metal part right here isn't pressing into the motherboard when you
go to push it in you see there's a little tiny Gap back there make sure
it's in the Gap make sure it's not pushing into the board I've done that
it's usually bad results okay so you
position it above the slot and then push firmly so I'm going to use my camera
hand in addition to my other hand push firmly on the entire card until it sits
into the slot okay so you'll be able to see now it's there's a little bit of
wiggle room but it's pretty much in there so you should use two screws to
secure this particular card one goes here I'm using thumb
screws lots of different cases have lots of different mounting mechanisms what I
tend to do is I give the card a bit of a lift as I'm screwing it in so what that
does is it makes sure that I don't have any undue weight or strain being left on
the socket okay and then the screw threading
is broken on my case so I just push the screw in that's all I can really do
there that's his that's his in as it goes all right then we connect the power
connectors which is pretty straightforward hide those extra two
pins and that's it that's my 6870
installation guide you have now installed a Radeon 6870 enjoy your
direct X10 gaming performance featuring The MSI 6870 they've even got like an
afterburner ad on their card it's a good piece of software but yeah