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did an installation guide like this a little while back but I thought I'd do

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one for the Radeon 6870 since in my opinion it's going to

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be a very popular card so the first

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thing you're going to want to do is make sure that you have enough space in your

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case and that is means in terms of length so if you have hard drive cages

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that are positioned uh just to the right of your motherboard or if you have any

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other obstacles that might be there the 6870 is about the length of a

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motherboard so it should be in fact it is exactly the length of a motherboard

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standard apx motherboard so it should be

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fairly easy oh okay not quite exactly I'm sorry it's just like almost exactly

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there you can see how close it is so it should be fairly easy to eyeball based

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on that whether there is enough room in your case another thing to bear in mind

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is this is a dual slot card and you're going to want the next one over free or

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at least okay so let's say here theoretically you've got your card installed here in the top slot okay and

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there's one in the next one but it's like a short one like that killer neck

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right there as long as that fan has Breathing Room you should be in pretty good shape so the fan down there all

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right so that's another thing to bear in mind you do need two slots so you got

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two mounting screw points right there other things you will need you will need

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two PCI Express six pin power connectors

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so in my case uh that is check and check

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these are both 6 plus 2 pins so they can be plugged into either a six pin or an 8

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Pin slot on on a graphics card so from there you take off the screws which I

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have already done oh no no no okay take off your side panel which I have already

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done you take off your screws which I have apparently already done you

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position the card after grounding yourself which means touching the power

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supply while it's plugged into the

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wall there's a cat okay so you position

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it above the slot making sure that you've here's a common mistake make sure

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this metal part right here isn't pressing into the motherboard when you

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go to push it in you see there's a little tiny Gap back there make sure

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it's in the Gap make sure it's not pushing into the board I've done that

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it's usually bad results okay so you

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position it above the slot and then push firmly so I'm going to use my camera

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hand in addition to my other hand push firmly on the entire card until it sits

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into the slot okay so you'll be able to see now it's there's a little bit of

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wiggle room but it's pretty much in there so you should use two screws to

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secure this particular card one goes here I'm using thumb

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screws lots of different cases have lots of different mounting mechanisms what I

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tend to do is I give the card a bit of a lift as I'm screwing it in so what that

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does is it makes sure that I don't have any undue weight or strain being left on

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the socket okay and then the screw threading

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is broken on my case so I just push the screw in that's all I can really do

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there that's his that's his in as it goes all right then we connect the power

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connectors which is pretty straightforward hide those extra two

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pins and that's it that's my 6870

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installation guide you have now installed a Radeon 6870 enjoy your

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direct X10 gaming performance featuring The MSI 6870 they've even got like an

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afterburner ad on their card it's a good piece of software but yeah