I'm sorry this one took me so long to get to you guys this is the radon
hd6950 but what's special about this one
is right here this is a 1 gig version of
the ever popular 6950 which means that
well basically and you can check out the
reviews on any number of the popular review sites my personal favorite these
days is Hardware canucks.com but basically what this car C offers is
most of the performance of a 6950
regular card with a lower price because
it has less memory and so it is therefore less expensive so let's have a
look at what are the key features here so hd3d it supports 3D Blu-ray as well
as 3D gaming direct X11 uh ifinity I
believe this one supports I don't remember I think it's
something like four or five displays or something ridiculous like that um guys
please leave a comment with how many displays are supported by this
particular card in high Infinity parallel processing highspeed gddr5
memory Crossfire X multi-GPU support which is very nice uh what else do we
got here HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D so that's a big one and
DisplayPort 1.2 okay what else do we got here five
star support
okay so that's more of an X effect specific thing ah okay and iph you can
support three or more displays to enable more than two displays native display
port connection or certified DisplayPort adapters must be used okay let's
open this guy up and have a look now one of the things that you will notice about
this and any 6951 gig card is that these
cards are no longer based on the original reference design which used the
same PCB as the 6970 so that means the unlocking trick
is not an option here folks here's a little brochure for XFX Pro Series power
supplies with 5year warranty uh their power supplies are
exceptional by the way in case you guys were wondering and you wanted someone
other than XFX to tell you that here's the North America limited
warranty don't forget XFX has um
actually I wonder what the warranty is on this particular card I actually don't
know let me have a look cuz um many XFX
cards do have lifetime warranty but I
don't know if it's necessarily all of the these dayss okay well let's see what it says in here guys The Limited
Hardware warranty okay what is not covered by limited Hardware warranty how
long does it last The Limited Hardware warrany is for a period of 2 years two
years for this one oh okay if you register the product
online within 30 days of purchase your limited warranty will be extended for
the duration of your life uh don't forget that you can transfer the limited
warranty to one other owner and XFX also
covers uh it has a mod friendly warranty so if you replace the stock cooler and
it's the card breaks after you've been using it with the non-stock cooler for a
while as long as you were using it correctly and as long as you can return
the card to its original condition you still have warranty on it pretty nice
huh driver CD installation guide don't use the driver CD don't use that
installation guide just download the latest drivers of the AMD website AMD
driver installation CD throw it away and I love these XFX door hangers do not
disturb I'm gaming I've been doing this a fair bit lately but I'm actually going
to go on a little Adventure into the
other part of my house can see my cat
again hey you hello and I'll show you
guys I actually have one of the older XFX do not disturb I'm gaming uh door
hangers this is back when XFX was GeForce
only so there you go there's their support information as well so
yeah that's one of my one of my favorite little swag bits to get in a box with
something is actually these door hangers I think they're neat okay in here we
have a crossfire Bridge that's it fine
and the card itself so not only does it
not use a reference PCV but this card also does not use a reference
cooler so let's show you guys what's
going down in this funky town so here's the
6950 you can see right here it's using a vapor chamber cooler design so you can
tell that from the flat rectangular
copper piece at the back so you can see the corners here here here in here and
then that Vapor chamber actually has a like a flower style heat sink here you
can I'm going to position myself under the light a little bit better so you guys can see but you can see the way
that the air flow is going to go through this fan is that it's going to come in
here and then it's actually going to go not only down into the flower fins here
but also to the side and it'll be making use of this surface area over here as
well then it'll be exhausted out of these vents which is
going to cause some warm air to be recycled but it shouldn't be too bad as
long as you don't have a card right directly next to it and then also all
out the top here as well as presume oh not out the bottom okay so only out the
top and then out the back so the uh
voltage regulation stuff is all in oops
is all in here and you're going to get some incidental air flow from the fan
blowing air this way and then having it
uh coming out the back of the card like a reference
6950 and the 2 gig version this uses two six pin PCI Express connectors for power
on the back you can see XFX is trademark
matte black PCB love it everything looks
good in matte black everything the whole computer
should just be matte black and that would be optimal so here we've got all
of our RAM chips on the back of the card we've also got the GPU itself there's
the power connectors and here's all of our display connectors and speaking of
those why don't we have a look at what options we have so there's a little XFX
logo why don't we turn this around so we can enjoy that XFX logo and all of its
right side up Glory so we've got two DVI connectors one HDMI and two display
ports my assumption would be this card supports up to four way um ifinity so
two of these two of these or two of these and two of these and uh yeah so
these are mini DisplayPort just so you guys know if you're not familiar with that particular connector so a mini
DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter can just be a passive adapter it's not
expensive quite inexpensive indeed and
let's just have a close look at the front of the card itself cuz it's
actually quite a quite a sharp looking card there's the you can't really tell
on the camera but these are Chrome accents here okay and then this is gray
and this is black so it's uh once you've got that installed in your system it's
going to be like pretty nice looking
actually you can see that shine
there so yeah you get pretty much all of the performance of a 6950 unless you're
running at Uber High resolutions like uh Affinity uh triple HD resolution or if
you're running at 2560 x600 you need that additional frame buffer the 2 gig
card will perform better but if you don't need it the 1 gig card will perform just as well so thank you for
checking out my unboxing and first look at the XFX Ron HD
6950 1 gig graphics card oh hey here's
something cool oh man totally forgot to mention this got two Crossfire fingers
so that supports up to three-way Crossfire X also runs on P C Express
standard 16x connector and last but not least check this out so they've still
got that bio switch on here so you can actually load an aftermarket BIOS in one
of the positions and then if it doesn't work you can just flip yourself back to
the original BIOS with this little switch right in
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