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so I wanted to do a quick video as a follow-up to our 5970 unboxing on just how big this card is and what it's going to take to get it to fit in your case so one case that I had on hand here I built that I've been working on and his torn apart right now I apologize for the state of it this is the Corsair obsidian 800 D case though and I just wanted to show for scale the kind of monster case that you need to fit one or heaven forbid even two of these video cards so we're installing it in our PCI Express slot here and there's a couple things I want you to note about this first of all how much overhang there is from a standard sized ATX board you're pretty much going to need a case that supports EI TX or has a lot of clearance past the edge of the motherboard if you want this card to fit another thing to note is that it's very important to choose a motherboard that has right angle SATA slots because you can see there's two two and two of the SATA support SATA ports on this motherboard are actually directly under the video card we can access them if they were right angle then we'd be able to plug them in from the side even under the video card now the last thing I wanted to kind of show you just for perspective here is a couple generations ago this was a reasonably high end card this is a 38 50 okay so for for size comparison that's what it looks like compared to the 59 70 just ridiculous so oh actually one more thing you want to be very careful with your system once you've got this installed so you put in your two screws but you got to think about this the only thing supporting this card is your PCI Express slot and two screws over here you want to be careful not to jar your system or ship your system potentially unless you've done everything you can to secure this card in place because it can put a lot of strain on your PCI Express slot thank you for checking out my installation video for the Radeon 59 70