Gadgetory

so today I'm gonna be unboxing a pretty new and pretty exciting product this is the Radeon 5970 and as you can see there are two girls on the front and I suppose what that means is that they want to sell cards to geek male gamers but now that I'm implying anything about our target audience here but what it also means is that there are two and by two they need GPUs so this is a dual 5800 series card that is actually kind of like two of a hybrid between a 5870 and a 50/50 so it's somewhere between the performance of 5850 crossfire and 5870 crossfire just like the rest of the 5000 series cards you've got DirectX 11 affinity support it does support ATI crossfire X so you can actually run two of these cards with four GPUs for extreme gaming that kind of experience so let's get this box open up here okay it's fairly heavy actually for a graphics card that is extremely heavy and this card is a monster in terms of size which we are about to find out yeah so the video cards almost the only thing in here so here is the download URL for their overclocking and tweaking utility okay there's the video card itself I'd like to do the accessory package first though normally so let's have a look at what we've bought included with this card so you got a crossfire bridge alright then they have oh this is interesting so this is a mini DisplayPort to display port adapter okay then you have a DVI to VGA adapter then you have a DVI to HDMI adapter alright lots of adapters see a molex to PCI Express 6 pin adapter okay then we have an installation driver CD don't use this just download the latest drivers off a ti.com full game coupon for BattleForge full game coupon for dirt to my do not all of the Sapphire cards included dirt 2 as we found out today a to molex to one 8 pin PCI Express adapter you know what if you don't have the right PCI Express plugs on your on your power supply though you shouldn't be buying this card you should be buying a new power supply yeah anyway there's the manual it just it doesn't make sense to be people who are buying like a six hundred dollar card should have a proper power supply to power it you want to make sure you're doing that so let's get this out of the anti-static baggie here which is it seems to be like packed inside like two bags oh no there's like foamies in there to protect this end of the card so that is one heck of a long video card we've got similar sort of graphic on the card itself we've got one fan at the back here this is a PCI Express what is the iPhone here for oh you want me to use it as as like a size comparison okay there you go it's like it's big as like a jillion iPhones okay so this is a PCI Express 2.0 card and it has one six pin and one eight pin power connector that are required like I said before just just get a power supply that supports it here you can see that's got like a black shroud cooling the back of the card as well as gaps for where the two GPUs are located there in terms of ports on the back of the card itself I got our ATI Radeon branding here we have two DVI and one mini DisplayPort so that's how you're gonna get your three displays out for Eyefinity and they're unlike the 58 70 and fifty eight fifty we have a full slot for exhaust instead of a half slot I really like to see that they've improved that last thing we've got let me see on the top actually I'm gonna turn this camera man doesn't want me to do that but there that's the crossfire finger so if you're installing two of these monsters you're gonna need to install your crossfire bridge there there's the bottom of the card there's nothing particularly interesting there and then there's our Batmobile looking front of the cards so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Radeon HD 59 70