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so today I'll be doing an unboxing or rather an unbagging of a product that is

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available at retail but not in this particular form so this is the okay you

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know what I'm not going to tell you what it is and oh hold on I need to get my

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knife here because uh you know this knife has proven very popular with my

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viewers I'm going to break the elastic there yeah there we go we'll use that as

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a size size comparison against the uh the video card so based on the accessory

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the one accessory that came with this sample card I'm going to let our viewers

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guess so pause the video and see if you can guess what card this is so it

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includes six mini DisplayPort to

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DisplayPort adapters okay so go ahead

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pause the video put down a comment and guess anyway so for those who guessed or

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for those who haven't guessed yes this is the ATI Radeon

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hd5870 ifinity 6 Edition so this this has six

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display outputs and other than that it

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is pretty much a plain Radeon 5870 but a

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couple of things first of all because it has six mini display ports and you can

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actually plug them in just like that okay it also has a fulllength exhaust

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slot unlike the regular 5870 which is only able to exhaust off about a quarter

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of the PCI back plate now another advantage that it has is that it has 2

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gigs of video RAM versus the only 1 gig

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of video RAM on the regular 5870 other

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than that it's pretty similar so you can see we've got our back plate here and

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we've got a full shroud on the back that's cooling um that's cooling the

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back of the video card we've got a regular PCI Express 16x interface up at

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the top we will find two Crossfire Bridge uh fingers but you know what this

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is something that there's a lot of misconceptions about and I thought I'd just clear this up a lot of people think

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you have to to plug two Bridges if you've only got two cards but actually

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that can degrade performance rather than helping performance it's actually just

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fine to run only a single bridge between your two cards so there you go Crossfire

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lesson of the day so around the front of the card we find the ATI Radeon branding

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and here's another big difference is that this card uses a six pin and an 8

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Pin PCI Express power connector so because it's got those uh that extra RAM

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that's the only real spec difference and it needs a little bit more power

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okay so we'll go around to the Batmobile esque shape of the cooler because this

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is a sample card and not actually a retail card there's only the ATI

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branding on it so there's no uh no partner branding like a sapphire

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powercolor XFX nothing like that around

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the bottom of the card we find nothing all that exceptional now I just want to

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talk a little bit about the infinity 6 card and the technology that goes behind

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it so you can see that has gone and included six mini DisplayPort to

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DisplayPort adapters and while I'm talking I'm just going to plug these in

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so that you can get the full impact of all the displays you can hook up to this

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card I mean even a couple years ago the idea of having a consumer level gaming

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card that could output three displays was crazy and now we have one that can

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output to six displays now you you might

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go oh well I don't have a DisplayPort Monitor and that may be true but the

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reality is once you've gone out to DisplayPort you can actually take two

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of these and you can adapt them to either HDMI or DVI so you could run six

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monitors off of this card with two DVI

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adapters and then four DisplayPort monitors so that would give you a way to

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do that now iin 6 you can make the argument again that a 5870 isn't really

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powerful enough to drive six displays at 2560 x600 resolution that would probably

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be true but what you can do is you can still run six displays out in crossfire

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mode with another ifinity 6 Edition card so that means that you can actually run

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six displays off two cards and get the power of both cards running behind it I

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don't believe it this time you can Crossfire a 5870 ifinity 6 with a

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regular 5870 and the reason for that is the different video memory although they

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may update that in the future so thank you for checking out my unboxing and

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quick product Showcase of the ATI radio ion 5870 ifinity

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6 yeah the cameraman reminded me when I said thank you for watching my video

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blog or whatever it is I said that uh I never actually did the size comparison

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that I promised so here it is plugged into a really old fail motherboard but

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it is a standard ATX board so you can see that it does stretch about an inch

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past the edge of the board okay so you can kind of look at that from the bottom

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see how far it stretches out you can see what it looks like installed in the

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motherboard so it takes up both the PCI Express slot it's plugged into as well

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as the next over slot and then here it

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is for size comparison against the cameraman's iPhone because we so

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frequently do that you can see that it is much smaller than an or much smaller

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much bigger than an iPhone there you go as helpful as that may be and then last

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but not least comparison is against the length of the sword that I have begun

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using for my unboxings so there that is it that is the scale of the iin 6 5870 2

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gig graphics card