okay so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the allnew ATI radon HD
5830 this is a part that is positioned sort of between the
5770 and the 5850 but it is more like a
5800 series than a 5700 series hence the
name so this is from powercolor it is a PCS plus which is I believe their
branding for overclocked video cards it has 1 GB of gddr5 memory something about
unleashing the gaming power and it also has DVI HDMI and DisplayPort like all
of the other 5800 series cards so around at the back you can see it is powered by
ATI radio on 5830 it has a 256bit memory
interface PCI Express 2 direct X11
stream technology supports Crossfire and it better for the price built in HDMI
with 7.1 surround sound and all of this basically looks like the same stuff it's
funny they didn't even mention ifinity here but ifinity is here so you can run
up to three displays um I also have have a guide on how to set up ifinity you
should probably check that out at some point and why don't we start getting
this unpackaged okay the plastic is off it's
naked sort of it's not oh I don't have a knife I never have a knife see and I
think someone actually took the knife that I keep in this room so I'm going to
go ahead and just like stab through the protective sticker with a pen just kind
of yeah we're making things work there we go the box is officially
opened and now it's naked no no it's
still got another box see this is this is like an unbox box box bag in because
there are lots of boxes and bags ah another bag okay well why don't we start
with the accessories you got to be kidding
me this I have never seen something like
this before I thought maybe it was a a joke
but I figured it out now this is a banana digital King best CDR 52x compact
disc recordable from GOI digital it is a
grade recordable TD and it is for
high-speed driver so if you drive fast and you
are uh okay so there's something some
data burn to it I'm going to go ahead and assume that this is the latest
drivers so for the first time ever I'm actually going to recommend installing
the driver that comes on the CD because they clearly downloaded the latest
driver off the ATI website burned it to a CD and there it is ready for your
installation so thank you power color for actually the attention to detail of
giving us the very latest drivers for this brand new card I'm going to assume
that any future iterations of the 5830 are going to come with a real driver CD
but uh that's still pretty funny all right so what's next next we have an an
installation guide all right so the installation guide is quite long it's in
a wide variety of languages it shows you how to install a graphics card in 8 * 2
is 16 different languages and I'm going to go ahead and close that right back up
while the cameraman tries to look at it oh hey I actually folded it out to the
English side check that out so they have a 5750 there for their demo okay next in
terms of accessories we have a part of the box that I can't figure out how to
open oh it's actually like sealed in there
okay and in here we have a crossfire bridge and a DVI to VGA adapter okay so
not not a whole lot going on in there let's just put that back okay
let's have a look at the card itself this is the exciting part now something
to note about 5800 Ser or 5800 5830 cards is that
there is no reference cooler design in fact there is no reference design so
what a reference design is is it's a standardized PCB and a standardized heat
sink that at says okay this is what we recommend that you use and most launch
cards are actually like 99% of the time
based on a reference design but ATI doesn't have a reference 5830 so the
board Partners were left to come up with whatever they want in this case
powercolor has put together a very attractive looking card it looks like a
92mm fan with 1 2 3 count them four heat
pipes coming out the top to spread the heat evenly throughout this fin
Arrangement which we can actually see more clearly from this side so check
that out so you got four heat pipes going across the core of the GPU and
then they come out here here here and here for really good cooling that's
actually kind of a neat shot you can see the structure of the heat syn there if
you look down at it from that angle so this is a PCI Express 16x card all right
you got a lot enough angles there oh I like this too check this out okay most
cards for the 5800 Series have the VR RM
or the voltage regulator module cooling integrated into the same metal chunk
that cools the RAM as well as the GPU but you can see we've got a separate
heat sink here and I actually prefer that method because vrms they get hot
but they don't actually produce a lot of heat so as long as you've got some
incidental air flow and a separate a nice well secured you can see they've
got actually three pegs through this thing to make sure it stays nice and well attached heat sink you can actually
remove more heat that way can you see that pretty good awesome two PCI Express
16x connectors and I don't like this these this is quite a long card actually
and you can see that these are coming out this side so that means you have to account for an additional like you know
couple centimeters out the back of the card to make sure that it can fit in your case I mean as long as you've got a
pretty good performance case that's nice and long then you should be all right
okay RAM so it has 1 gig of RAM and you can see the RAM is actually not directly
cooled but it's all positioned underneath that 92 mm fan so I wouldn't
worry about that getting hot at all all
at the top of the card we find two Crossfire fingers okay remember when
you're running two cards it's actually you can see better performance if you
just use one crossfire bridge and then at the back of the card there's not a
whole lot to talk about the whole heat sink assembly is held on by four screws
okay four screws actually those are kind
of funny okay they're slot screws you can just use a slot screwdriver for that
okay never mind nothing don't look at that okay here we have DisplayPort HDMI
and DVI so the the old 5800 series cards
usually had two dvis right here and here but you can just use DVI and HDMI to DVI
cable or adapter remember they are in terms of signal they are identical so
there's no quality loss there's nothing like that and then DisplayPort if you
want to run a third monitor you will need either a DisplayPort monitor or an
active DisplayPort to DVI adapter you can't just use a like a passive cable
and then they've actually got I like this too they've got actual slots here
for the air Escape out of your case even though based on the design of the cooler
I can tell you already that not all of the air will be directed in this
direction a lot of it will go here a lot of it will go here but at least we're exhausting some air thank you for
checking out my exhausting unboxing speaking of exhausting of the radon HD
5830