{"video_id":"kjjnN8W3zI4","title":"ATI Radeon HD 5970 Video Card First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":243,"segments":[{"start_s":1.24,"end_s":7.4,"text":"so today I'm going to be unboxing a pretty new and pretty exciting product","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.6,"end_s":12.88,"text":"this is the Radeon 5970 and as you can see there are two","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.32,"end_s":17.68,"text":"girls on the front and I suppose what that means is that they want to sell","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.28,"end_s":19.039,"text":"cards to uh geek maale Gamers but uh not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.68,"end_s":23.64,"text":"that I'm implying anything about our target audience here but what it also","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.039,"end_s":30.24,"text":"means is that there are two and by two they mean gpus so this 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exhaust","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":211.08,"end_s":218.0,"text":"instead of a half slot I really like to see that they've improved that last","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":214.959,"end_s":219.12,"text":"thing we've got uh let me see on the top","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":218.0,"end_s":225.36,"text":"actually I'm going to turn this cameraman doesn't want me to do that but there that's the crossfire finger so if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":223.4,"end_s":228.439,"text":"you're installing two of these monsters you're going to need to install your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":226.48,"end_s":231.76,"text":"Crossfire Bridge there there's the bottom of the card there's nothing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":229.799,"end_s":235.64,"text":"particularly interesting there and then there's our Batmobile looking front of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":234.0,"end_s":242.879,"text":"the card so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Radeon","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":238.4,"end_s":242.879,"text":"hd50 970","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so today I'm going to be unboxing a pretty new and pretty exciting product this is the Radeon 5970 and as you can see there are two girls on the front and I suppose what that means is that they want to sell cards to uh geek maale Gamers but uh not that I'm implying anything about our target audience here but what it also means is that there are two and by two they mean gpus so this is a dual 5800 series card that is actually kind of like two of a hybrid between a 5870 and a 5850 so it's somewhere between the performance of 5850 Crossfire and 5870 Crossfire just like the rest of the 5,000 series cards you've got direct X11 ifinity support it does support ATI Crossfire X so you can actually run two of these cards with four gpus for Extreme Gaming that kind of experience so let's get this box opened up here okay so it is fairly heavy actually for a graphics card that is extremely heavy and this card is a monster in terms of size which we are about to find out yeah so the video card is almost the only thing in here so uh here is the download URL for their overclocking and tweaking utility okay there's the video card itself I'd like to do the accessory package first though normally so let's have a look at what we've got included with this card so you got a crossfire Bridge all right then they have oh this isn't interesting so this is a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter okay then you have a DVI to VGA adapter then you have a DVI to HDMI adapter all right lots of adapters um let's see a Molex to PCI Express six pin adapter okay then we have an installation driver CD don't use this just download the latest drivers off ati.com a full game coupon for battle Forge full game coupon for Dirt 2 mind you not all of the sapphire cards include dirt to as we found out today a two MOX to one8 pin PCI Express adapter you know what if you don't have the right PCI Express plugs on your on your uh power supply though you shouldn't be buying this card you should be buying a new power supply um yeah anyway there's the manual it just it doesn't make sense to me people who are buying like a $600 card should have a proper power supply to power it you want to make sure you're doing that so let's get this out of the anti-static baggie here which is it seems to be like packed inside like two bags oh no there's like foamies in there to protect this end of the card so that is one heck of a long video card we've got similar sort of graphic on the card itself we've got one fan at the back here this is a PCI Express what is the iPhone here for oh you wants me to use it as a as like a size comparison okay there you go it's like as big as like a jillion iPhones okay so this is a PCI Express 2.0 card and it has one six pin and one 1 eight pin power connector that are required like I said before just just get a power supply that supports it here you can see that it's got like a black shroud cooling the back of the card as well as gaps for where the two gpus are located there in terms of ports on the back of the cart itself we got our hi radon branding here we have two DVI and one mini DisplayPort so that's how you're going to get your three displays out for ifinity and there unlike the 5870 and 5850 we have a full slot for exhaust instead of a half slot I really like to see that they've improved that last thing we've got uh let me see on the top actually I'm going to turn this cameraman doesn't want me to do that but there that's the crossfire finger so if you're installing two of these monsters you're going to need to install your Crossfire Bridge there there's the bottom of the card there's nothing particularly interesting there and then there's our Batmobile looking front of the card so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Radeon hd50 970"}