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so today I'm going to be unboxing a pretty new and pretty exciting product

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this is the Radeon 5970 and as you can see there are two

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girls on the front and I suppose what that means is that they want to sell

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cards to uh geek maale Gamers but uh not

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that I'm implying anything about our target audience here but what it also

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means is that there are two and by two they mean gpus so this is a dual 5800

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series card that is actually kind of like two of a hybrid between a 5870 and

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a 5850 so it's somewhere between the performance of 5850 Crossfire and 5870

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Crossfire just like the rest of the 5,000 series cards you've got direct X11

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ifinity support it does support ATI Crossfire X so you can actually run two

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of these cards with four gpus for

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Extreme Gaming that kind of experience so let's get this box opened up here

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okay so it is fairly heavy actually for

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a graphics card that is extremely heavy and this card is a monster in terms of

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size which we are about to find out yeah so the video card is almost the only

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thing in here so uh here is the download URL for their overclocking and tweaking

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utility okay there's the video card itself I'd like to do the accessory

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package first though normally so let's

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have a look at what we've got included with this card so you got a crossfire

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Bridge all right then they have oh this isn't interesting so this is a mini

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DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter okay then you have a DVI to VGA adapter

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then you have a DVI to HDMI adapter all

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right lots of adapters um let's see a Molex to PCI Express six pin adapter

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okay then we have an installation driver CD don't use this just download the

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latest drivers off ati.com a full game coupon for battle Forge full game coupon

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for Dirt 2 mind you not all of the sapphire cards include dirt to as we

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found out today a two MOX to one8 pin

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PCI Express adapter you know what if you

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don't have the right PCI Express plugs on your on your uh power supply though

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you shouldn't be buying this card you should be buying a new power supply um

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yeah anyway there's the manual it just it doesn't make sense to me people who

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are buying like a $600 card should have a proper power supply to power it you

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want to make sure you're doing that so let's get this out of the anti-static

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baggie here which is it seems to be like packed inside like two bags oh no

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there's like foamies in there to protect this end of the card so that is one heck

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of a long video card we've got similar sort of graphic on the card itself we've

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got one fan at the back here this is a PCI Express what is the iPhone here for

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oh you wants me to use it as a as like a size comparison okay there you go it's

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like as big as like a jillion iPhones okay so this is a PCI Express 2.0 card

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and it has one six pin and one 1 eight pin power connector that are required

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like I said before just just get a power supply that supports it here you can see

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that it's got like a black shroud cooling the back of the card as well as

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gaps for where the two gpus are located there in terms of ports on the back of

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the cart itself we got our hi radon branding here we have two DVI and one

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mini DisplayPort so that's how you're going to get your three displays out for

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ifinity and there unlike the 5870 and

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5850 we have a full slot for exhaust

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instead of a half slot I really like to see that they've improved that last

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thing we've got uh let me see on the top

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actually I'm going to turn this cameraman doesn't want me to do that but there that's the crossfire finger so if

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you're installing two of these monsters you're going to need to install your

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Crossfire Bridge there there's the bottom of the card there's nothing

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particularly interesting there and then there's our Batmobile looking front of

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the card so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Radeon

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hd50 970