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how's it going guys today I will be doing an unboxing and quick overview of this video card from sapphire this is the Radeon HD 7870 and it is the gigahertz Edition which means it comes factory overclocked right out of the box so just a few specs I wanted to list off really quick before I open up the box this card does feature AMD's 28 nanometer GCN that's graphic core next architecture it's pretty much known for being able to fit a ton of transistors on a very small area which is pretty badass it does come clocked at 10 50 megahertz and I did mention earlier that it is factory overclocked gigahertz Edition right there it does have two gigs of gddr5 memory clocked to twelve hundred and fifty megahertz and that's on a 256 bit interface aside from that this card also does feature AMD's HD 3d technology as well as Eyefinity 2.0 and lastly sapphire does recommend that you have a 500 watt or greater power supply if you're gonna be running one of these cards alright so I'm moving on to the fun stuff see what we get inside so first off we've got some foam packaging that's always good very thoughtful of sapphire here we have the card itself all wrapped in bubble wrap put that down right there you get a crossfire X Bridge right here by the way this did not come like this this is actually an open box product right here so when it comes shipped this is gonna be in a plastic bag so don't freak out it's not sapphires fault just using use products this one however is in a plastic bag because it's fairly useless for a product like this this is your VGA to dual link DVI it's kind of blurry but you don't need to see that anyway hopefully you never have to use that with this card packaging and we have another unwrapped adapter cuz this one is useful this is a mini DisplayPort I swear I need a cameraman but this is a mini DisplayPort to regular DisplayPort adaptor and you've also got these two adapters as well this is molex to PCI Express so basically if your power supply doesn't have any more PCIe connectors on them and you have some molex connectors left you can go ahead and use these compare your card and you also get quick installation guide your a driver installation CD with a little case patch it's always best to go to the manufacturer website and make sure that you have the latest drivers as the ones on the disc can can be outdated most of the time and lastly you get a little pamphlet basically tells you how to register your product in case you ever need support from sapphire in the future which hopefully you never do alright guys we finally made it to the card itself so taking a look at the front here we can see two 80 millimeter fans and they both say dual X on them dual X is what sapphire is calling their aftermarket cooling design for this card which basically consists of the fans the aluminum fin or a beneath it and the black plastic shroud that covers most of the card there are some gaps on the sides as you can see so you will have air coming out from those sides keep that in mind when you're configuring your build and aside from that you also get four copper heat pipes coming from that fin array for maximum thermal dissipation and you also get a pci-e 3.0 connector of course I forgot to mention earlier that this card is pcie 3.0 compatible and on this side here we've got a sapphire HD 7870 sticker and two 6-pin PCI II power connectors right there on here we got a turquoise PCB definitely not the reference design and on the back finally we have some ventilation holes for added air flow and your video outs so two mini displayport outs 11.4 a HDMI out which is also capable of doing 3d video output and lastly your dual link DVI connector alright guys that wraps up this overview and quick unboxing once again this has been the Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 gigahertz edition if you guys enjoyed this video be sure to subscribe to awesomesauce news for more tech videos and i'll see you guys in the next one