welcome to my unboxing and first look at a video card that is a compelling value
so I'm not even going to tell you guys what it is although if you want to cheat you could always look at the title of
the video which you've probably already done because there's not a whole lot of
Point watching a video unless you've already watched the title to find out if
you're interested in it or not although you could tell that to all the people
who watch the videos that I do about Apple stuff and then come in to dislike
my video and you know make negative comments about about Apple and people
who use iPhones and Linus but whatever I'm not sad or
depressed because today we are not talking about Apple we are talking about
a pretty sweet graphics card from XFX this is like I said before one of the
best values out there it is the Radeon hd7850 and this particular one has a few
things that are special about it it has 2 gigs of RAM which is okay not that not
that special not that abnormal it also has
their DD cooler which is to say that it
has two fans for double the dissipation
of one fan okay so it doesn't quite work out to
half the temperatures but you will get significantly better temperatures and
we've seen this time and time again versus a reference cooler so I I know
I'm unboxing this really quickly but I actually just want to kind of have
everything in front of me before I start to talk about it too much okay in terms
of included accessories XFX gives you a crossfire Bridge that's your standard
length Crossfire bridge if you need a bigger one it should come with your motherboard they give you a door hanger
that says do not disturb I gaming so
like screw off oh no it doesn't say that never mind no it's just a picture of like army dudes okay on the back they've
got their part number their serial number as well as your personal
activation code which is really cool because they give you this convenient
neat piece of Swag to keep all the information that you need on in case you
need to contact their customer service which is handy because the last thing
you want to do when you're like diagnosing something is like stick your head inside your computer and try to
read the serial number off the very bottom of the PCI Express lot so that's
a much more convenient way to do that Pro Series power supply so they've got
some other products from XFX that you might want to check out including their
adapters and connectors and whatnots Hardware limited warranty okay region
specific so you want to check online for the details however XFX has one of the
best reputations in the biz in the entire graphics card business when it
comes to warranty and customer support once again this is something that I've
seen time and time again countless testimonials for XFX and the way that
they do business so there you go there
is the sexy graphics card with their ghost cooler and let's finish off seeing
what XFX has to say for themselves about it more memory for high resolutions
right this is good compared to other cards in this price range the 7850 has
lots of memory why is that important someone messaged me on YouTube not that
long ago asking if I could do benchmark of a GTX 550 TI in surround gaming mode
I said no I'm not going to bother because the performance is going to be horrible cuz it doesn't have enough
memory and honestly the GPU doesn't really have the horses either he's
messages me back a little while later he says oh well I bought it and uh I
benchmarked it and just so you know the performance is really horrible and I'm
like I know um yes it is you need a more
powerful graphics card you need more memory if you want to run High
resolutions so there you go more details and better gaming yes all of this is
true G thermal maximizes airf flow for exceptional venting throughout the card
well let's have a look at that when we uh when we check out the cooler key
features um wow that's no
way mosquito noise reduction do they mean like coil
lne do you think that's what they mean I mean I can tell you guys now that I've
had pretty bad experiences overall with reference cards on the AMD side for coil
line that is that noise that can come out of the back of the card when you
play a game so you know what we're going to do before we finish this unboxing we're going to go plug this into
something and let you guys know if this card wines so you guys will know for
sure multim monitor difference yes all of this is true AMD does have the best
multim monitor support when it comes to managing your desktops as well as
configuring it Bar None okay next Generation architecture so this is you
ah right this is using their new 28 nm uh family of processors so yes they're
fast yes they run cool they are also full F capable of running 4K displays
which is awesome and I personally am looking forward to 4K displays in a huge
way this is interesting so they are calling their professional grade
components durch which basically means solid caps F core chokes XFX bracket
design and a dust-free ip5x
fan neat check that out so they actually have a Blocker in there so remember guys
dust free doesn't necessarily mean that you're not going to get like dust and
like Gunk buil up on your fence but what it means is the fan itself is sealed so
you won't get dust inside it causing it to not work anymore which is way more
important actually all right so the ghost cooler the idea of this is that
they are throwing heat basically all over the card all over every part of it
making sure that the entire card is adequately cooled because it's really
easy to build a cooler that cools the GPU core itself really well but might
not actually provide adequate cooling to other things that can cause instability
when overclocking as well so you can see they've got
a unisync across the almost the entire
bottom of the card covering things like the RAM the vrms there you see going all
the way to the back of the card and that is what's going to spread the heat
around and make sure that it can be adequately cooled by these two double D
fans that are on the top of the card blow well rather on the bottom of the
card blowing up we also see that they've
got is that really four heat pipes they claim four heat pipes but I don't see
them oh wow they've got a really really tight stack there of 4 heat pipes that
go right directly over the core and carry the heat as far away as this one
over here goes all the way over here so you can see that the way XFX has laid
out the heat pipes they are Distributing them as evenly as possible except where
it's totally unnecessary so right directly over the core there aren't
really any heat pipes going there because they're getting incidental air flow from both sides from these fans and
heat will be transmitted directly up the aluminum fins from the core itself and
then dissipated Away by these fans so the heat pipes are carrying heat here
here here and here where it will then be
sort of blown all out the bottom what's cool about this open bottom on the card
is that it actually keeps the motherboard components from getting too hot hot running graphics cards can
easily transmit heat even through conduction to your motherboard because
they are physically connected so the motherboard right under the graphics
card can often run extremely hot which can be stressful on the components if
you have a video card that is actively cooling the motherboard from the fans
all the time then that's better so there you go you have that now the
disadvantage of a heat SN design like this is that it doesn't exhaust all the
air out the back which can be good for cases that have poor air flow however if
you have a case that has good air flow this will definitely give you better temperatures and better overclocking
than a reference design cooler on the back we find two mini display ports an
HDMI as well as two DVI ports and we've
also got there's their XFX bracket giving you I guess a little bit more air
flow than just the standard slit design but not a ton of air is going to be
going out the back of the case with a design like this anyway this is a PCI
Express 3.0 graphics card it also supports Crossfire so you can see we've
got one crossfire finger on the back it is a power efficient card whether it's
at idle or under gaming load however you still do need two PCIe six pin power
connectors and like almost every XFX card I've ever seen it has a matte black
PCB they were the ones who started this before the others and so they get credit
for making like the best possible PCB
configuration because matte black is awesome and every PCB should be matte
black on the top we've got their branding elements so XFX r7850 with
ghost thermal technology and they're Double D cooler they've also got you
know more shiny XFX that's going on XFX really does build beautiful cards and I
mean so they should they've been doing this for a while I think that pretty much wraps it up so it supports up to
four displays up to 4K high resolution
displays and it has the power Gusto and
gaming horses to actually drive them remember guys
not only surround gaming requires lots of memory high resolution also requires
more memory so if you want to get a value card that's still going to at
least be able to run it and not run out of memory at highres you will need
something with at least two gigs something like this is probably a good bet don't forget to subscribe to lest
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