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all right thank you for checking out the hardware connects coverage of AMD's Radeon 6800 series now make sure you watch the full video review for more details benchmarks and our opinion also check out triple W Hardware Cox comm for the even more extensive written review let's get into it so the 6870 that we're going to be unboxing is from msi again all of these specs are referenced design so it's going to be standard no matter which model you choose hopefully there will be some overclocked versions in the future though but the standard card is going to retail for about $239 us and it includes all of the regular features such as one gigabyte of gddr5 the DirectX 11 this has two mini display ports so you actually be able to connect up to four monitors on one card using Eyefinity as well what you get with the MSI card is Emma sized afterburner program which is an overclocking program that actually works fairly well the other thing you'll be able to support hdmi 1.4 it has all of the audio-visual connections such as 7.1 surround HDMI all of that good stuff so let's actually open things up here take a look at AMD is new sixty eight seven but first the accessories right the all-important accessories user guide we have a couple of molex to PCI Express power adapters this one includes a crossfire connection we also have a DVI to VGA connection and an HDMI into DisplayPort connection and finally just a quick intro into driver installation how to install the card and all that stuff from MSI you can see MSI has done some pretty nifty little artwork here on the fan shroud advertising there afterburner program and the fan itself is much like we saw with the 58 seven series we have the what I like to call a little mini wind turbine here and there isn't a lot of air ventilation around the fan shroud so air gets sucked in through there and there's a plate underneath that is going to cool all of the internals including the chip and then we get the exhaust point out there and while we're here we have the outputs which is dual DVI HDMI and a couple mini DisplayPort adapters you're going to be able to attach up to four monitors through I finna D on just one car that's pretty cool we also have the crossfire connection up there and lastly we have the power connections here there sideways mounted which is great if you're running out of space but you will need to have two of them a little more air venting there now let's just take a quick look at the size these things are 10.5 inches long compared to the 5870 which was a little over 11 inches so you can see you're going to be able to leak out a bit more room on the 68 70 and it's likely to fit in a lot more cases because ten point five is still an average or large sized ATX standard so you shouldn't have as many fitment problems with as many cases with this card and that is the look at MSI's 6870 video card make sure you check out the full review for more details benchmarks opinion lwd hardware conducts comm for the full written review as well