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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 here I have the Radeon 68 50 by XFX and we're going to do a brief unboxing on it now the card itself has reference specs but XFX has been known to take some creative leisure with their design now the 6850 is scheduled to be released at about $179.99 USD which makes it incredibly affordable for the performance all of them are going to carry the standard features hdmi 1.4 AMD eyefinity PCI Express 2.0 unsupportive the a do video Specialties 7.1 surround HDMI and 68 50 has one gig of gddr5 and memory so let's open it up and take a look at XFX is version of the ati/amd 6850 a whole bunch of material here first we have the Do Not Disturb door hanger but was like this about XFX they include these little things with every card you can put your username and password for your XFX account as well it gives you the serial number information for your card so you don't have to open up your case every time you want to get that and XFX they do their own power supply's check them out if you want something a little different we have the driver installation guide which is excessive and then the driver CD now if you're buying this fresh off the shelf on the first day you will probably want to use this otherwise make sure you head over to am DS driver download website and get the latest we have the quick install guide on how to install the card and we have XF X's North America limited warranty XFX offers a lifetime warranty which is pretty cool but you have to register within the first 30 days that's pretty much standard for all manufacturers with a lifetime warranty otherwise it defaults to two years I don't think no there's no accessories in this one onto the card itself the real meat the way so we have the unveiling of XFX 6850 and just looking at it there we'll the first thing you notice is it's a lot shorter if I hold that there and pull out our 58 7 you can see that the 6850 is only 9 inches long whereas we have the rather large 5870 up above there a lot of people found that that extra length to the 5870 wouldn't let them fit it in their case so people looking at wondering is this going to fit you'll be just fine no worries what we have is the XFX it's they're using a flower design heatsink here with a fan right over top at the GPU you can see it hopefully right underneath and the fan shroud is a little actually it's a lot different normally you get this generic looking fully covered fan shroud but we have a little bit of style around it some holes in the back which should be really good for air flow actually we have the PCI Express the power connection in terms of the output ports we have a dual DVI we have HDMI we have DisplayPort and XFX has put their logo across the exhaust point which is kind of cool overall that is the card itself XFX has really done a great job with the design you won't see it a heck of a lot but I think it should be very good for airflow and that's it the 6850 make sure you check out the full performance benchmarks and the written review for more details