XFX Radeon HD 6950 1GB Graphics Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,506 words · ~7 min read
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I'm sorry this one took me so long to get to you guys this is the radon
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hd6950 but what's special about this one
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is right here this is a 1 gig version of
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the ever popular 6950 which means that
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well basically and you can check out the
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reviews on any number of the popular review sites my personal favorite these
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days is Hardware canucks.com but basically what this car C offers is
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most of the performance of a 6950
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regular card with a lower price because
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it has less memory and so it is therefore less expensive so let's have a
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look at what are the key features here so hd3d it supports 3D Blu-ray as well
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as 3D gaming direct X11 uh ifinity I
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believe this one supports I don't remember I think it's
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something like four or five displays or something ridiculous like that um guys
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please leave a comment with how many displays are supported by this
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particular card in high Infinity parallel processing highspeed gddr5
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memory Crossfire X multi-GPU support which is very nice uh what else do we
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got here HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D so that's a big one and
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DisplayPort 1.2 okay what else do we got here five
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star support
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okay so that's more of an X effect specific thing ah okay and iph you can
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support three or more displays to enable more than two displays native display
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port connection or certified DisplayPort adapters must be used okay let's
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open this guy up and have a look now one of the things that you will notice about
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this and any 6951 gig card is that these
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cards are no longer based on the original reference design which used the
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same PCB as the 6970 so that means the unlocking trick
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is not an option here folks here's a little brochure for XFX Pro Series power
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supplies with 5year warranty uh their power supplies are
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exceptional by the way in case you guys were wondering and you wanted someone
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other than XFX to tell you that here's the North America limited
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warranty don't forget XFX has um
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actually I wonder what the warranty is on this particular card I actually don't
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know let me have a look cuz um many XFX
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cards do have lifetime warranty but I
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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
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Hardware warranty okay what is not covered by limited Hardware warranty how
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long does it last The Limited Hardware warrany is for a period of 2 years two
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years for this one oh okay if you register the product
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online within 30 days of purchase your limited warranty will be extended for
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the duration of your life uh don't forget that you can transfer the limited
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warranty to one other owner and XFX also
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covers uh it has a mod friendly warranty so if you replace the stock cooler and
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it's the card breaks after you've been using it with the non-stock cooler for a
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while as long as you were using it correctly and as long as you can return
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the card to its original condition you still have warranty on it pretty nice
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huh driver CD installation guide don't use the driver CD don't use that
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installation guide just download the latest drivers of the AMD website AMD
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driver installation CD throw it away and I love these XFX door hangers do not
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disturb I'm gaming I've been doing this a fair bit lately but I'm actually going
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to go on a little Adventure into the
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other part of my house can see my cat
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again hey you hello and I'll show you
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guys I actually have one of the older XFX do not disturb I'm gaming uh door
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hangers this is back when XFX was GeForce
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only so there you go there's their support information as well so
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yeah that's one of my one of my favorite little swag bits to get in a box with
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something is actually these door hangers I think they're neat okay in here we
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have a crossfire Bridge that's it fine
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and the card itself so not only does it
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not use a reference PCV but this card also does not use a reference
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cooler so let's show you guys what's
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going down in this funky town so here's the
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6950 you can see right here it's using a vapor chamber cooler design so you can
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tell that from the flat rectangular
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copper piece at the back so you can see the corners here here here in here and
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then that Vapor chamber actually has a like a flower style heat sink here you
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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
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that the air flow is going to go through this fan is that it's going to come in
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here and then it's actually going to go not only down into the flower fins here
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but also to the side and it'll be making use of this surface area over here as
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well then it'll be exhausted out of these vents which is
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going to cause some warm air to be recycled but it shouldn't be too bad as
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long as you don't have a card right directly next to it and then also all
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out the top here as well as presume oh not out the bottom okay so only out the
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top and then out the back so the uh
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voltage regulation stuff is all in oops
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is all in here and you're going to get some incidental air flow from the fan
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blowing air this way and then having it
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uh coming out the back of the card like a reference
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6950 and the 2 gig version this uses two six pin PCI Express connectors for power
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on the back you can see XFX is trademark
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matte black PCB love it everything looks
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good in matte black everything the whole computer
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should just be matte black and that would be optimal so here we've got all
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of our RAM chips on the back of the card we've also got the GPU itself there's
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the power connectors and here's all of our display connectors and speaking of
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those why don't we have a look at what options we have so there's a little XFX
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logo why don't we turn this around so we can enjoy that XFX logo and all of its
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right side up Glory so we've got two DVI connectors one HDMI and two display
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ports my assumption would be this card supports up to four way um ifinity so
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two of these two of these or two of these and two of these and uh yeah so
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these are mini DisplayPort just so you guys know if you're not familiar with that particular connector so a mini
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DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter can just be a passive adapter it's not
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expensive quite inexpensive indeed and
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let's just have a close look at the front of the card itself cuz it's
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actually quite a quite a sharp looking card there's the you can't really tell
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on the camera but these are Chrome accents here okay and then this is gray
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and this is black so it's uh once you've got that installed in your system it's
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going to be like pretty nice looking
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actually you can see that shine
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there so yeah you get pretty much all of the performance of a 6950 unless you're
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running at Uber High resolutions like uh Affinity uh triple HD resolution or if
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you're running at 2560 x600 you need that additional frame buffer the 2 gig
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card will perform better but if you don't need it the 1 gig card will perform just as well so thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and first look at the XFX Ron HD
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6950 1 gig graphics card oh hey here's
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something cool oh man totally forgot to mention this got two Crossfire fingers
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so that supports up to three-way Crossfire X also runs on P C Express
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standard 16x connector and last but not least check this out so they've still
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got that bio switch on here so you can actually load an aftermarket BIOS in one
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of the positions and then if it doesn't work you can just flip yourself back to
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the original BIOS with this little switch right in
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