Radeon. Everyone's been requesting this unboxing. The reality of it is I didn't
have a card, so now I do. I have a Radeon 6790. This is a one gig graphics
card from ATI or AMD if you would prefer. No, AMD. ATI if you prefer,
although you'd be wrong. AMD is the correct one. So, it's a 1 gig card. It
includes XFX's five-star support, which is uh worldrenowned at this point. It's
a PCI Express 2.0 card. It has dual fans, which is probably the reason for
the graphic that looks pretty sweet on the front of the box here. Let's see
what else they've got to say for themselves. Supports AMD Infinity multi-dis technology, AMD Crossfire X
multiGPU technology, and AMD accelerated parallel processing technology. This is
part of the AMD vision premium tier. So, if you wanted to build an AMD Vision
system, then this would be part of a premium. So, you could go select a premium level processor and you would
end up with a reasonably well balanced system. That's the whole idea of AMD Vision. It's a great idea. All right,
we've got full DirectX11 support. AMD Infinity, which we mentioned before, PCI
Express 2, which we mentioned before, 1080p full HD, which it bloody well
better support. AMD HD 3D technology, which allows you to view 3D Blu-ray
content, as well as play 3D games through your H through your 3D ready
television using the glasses from that provider. DisplayPort 1.2 HDMI 1.4A,
which is required for 3D. 7.1 HD surround sound is built into this card
as well as GDDR5. What else do we got here?
Pretty much it. Okay, let's open it up.
I don't know if I showed you guys this yet, but I have a Hello Kitty key for my
house now. I love it. I think it's awesome. Cameraman got it for me.
There we are. I've always liked how XFX boxes look like a shoe box. Like it
feels like I just bought shoes. Everyone likes shoes. I got new shoes today,
actually. But they're badminton shoes. So, um I'm not wearing them right now.
I'm actually just wearing my socks and sandals, which are a fashion atrocity,
and I love it. Okay. Pro Series PSUs.
So, they've got a little catalog for some of their other products, which are good. 5-year warranty. Something about
fivestar support. All of that's good stuff. North America limited warranty.
Okay, so there's some fine print for you. Don't forget XFX's warranty is
actually here. Hold on. Why don't we have a look at what they have to say for themselves here. What is covered by this
limited hardware warranty? What is not covered? Uh, how does state law apply?
What will XFX do? May I transfer? Ah,
may be transferred to one owner after the original owner. Pretty sweet, huh?
Most graphics card companies will not let you transfer your warranty.
Okay, cool. Next, we have a quick install
guide. Next, we have a driver CD and
installation guide. Don't use it. Okay.
Finally, we have uh one of these awesome
Oh, no. Here's the driver CD. That was just the install guide. One of these
awesome door hangers. Do not disturb. I'm gaming. And like planes and stuff.
Excellent. Everyone likes planes. You just put like
planes on it and then it's faster and better.
more performance. All right. So, here's my shoes. I mean
graphics card.
Because the 6790
does not have a reference design. That
means every 6790 you purchase, whether it's XFX or any
other brand, will be a nonreference PCB.
So, what that means in XFX's cases, because they're awesome, is matte black
PCB, which as you guys may or may not know by this time, I am a huge, huge fan
of. So, it's all matte black and awesome and looks great. And here's something I
just noticed. So, it looks like XFX does not want you to remove the cooler from
this particular card. You can see there's little warranty void if removed
stickers on two of the screws on the back. So you cannot remove that there
heat sink without voiding that their warranty. So watch out for that guys.
PCIe 2.0 connector on the bottom of the
card. And that pretty much does it for what I wanted to say there. Here you can
see the design of the cooler a little bit. So we got three heat pipes embedded
in the base. And it looks like those are heat pipe direct touch heat pipes. So
those should perform pretty darn well. We've also got a fairly um wow opposite
of dense. I'm like, I'm feeling dense right now cuz I can't remember what the
word is for that. Sparse comes to mind, but that's not really something I would
use to describe the uh fins of a heat sink. Okay. Well, a fairly uh low
resistance heatsink design, rather resistant to air flow. So, the spacing
between the fins is quite large, which means that these fans, although they're
thin and are not going to be able to generate a ton of static pressure,
should be able to push a decent amount of air flow through those and still
remain quiet. Okay. So, you can see that the heat sink is solid here where those
heat pipes come through. That's where the GPU core is. And then those heat pipes, which I showed you before, come
up here from the top and are carrying the heat out to the fins where they can
be directly cooled by these fans. Good
stuff. We have two six pin power connectors,
although from what I understand on the 6790, it's fairly debatable whether it
actually needs a second PCIe power connector. Either way, the card won't
work unless you plug in both. But this is not a super power hungry card. So
regardless of, you know, how many connectors there are on it, don't worry
too much about it. You're not going to be like, you know, going crazy on your
power bill just because you plug in a 6790. Here at the back, you can see
there's very little restriction in terms of air flow. Uh oh, low restriction. I
could have said that. Okay. Very little restriction in terms of air flow for air
coming out the uh front of the card. All
right. So, this is an internal exhaust design. You can see that fairly clearly.
You're going to kick a little bit of heat out here where the XFX logo is
built into the PCI back plate at the back. But other than that, most of the
exhaust is going to be in your case. As I said before, this is not going to kick
out a ton of heat. So, I wouldn't worry too much about installing this in your
case. And oh, my CPU temps are going to go through the roof. No, I'm wouldn't worry too much about that. Here on the
back of the card, we see our output connector. So, we've got two DVI, one
HDMI, and two DisplayPort. That means this card supports up to four displays
in mode. So, two via DVI or HDMI. So,
you can use these two, these two, or these two. And then two more via mini
DisplayPort. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the XFX Radeon
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