Gadgetory

did an installation guide like this a little while back but I thought I'd do one for the Radeon 6870 since in my opinion it's going to be a very popular card so the first thing you're going to want to do is make sure that you have enough space in your case and that is means in terms of length so if you have hard drive cages that are positioned just to the right of your motherboard or if you have any other obstacles that might be there the 6870 is about the length of a motherboard so it should be fit in fact it is exactly the length of a motherboard standard you can't motherboard so it should be fairly easy but ok not quite exactly I'm sorry it's just like almost exactly there you can see how close it is so it should be fairly easy to eyeball based on that whether there is enough room in your case another thing to bear in mind is this is a dual slot card and you're going to want the next one over free or at least okay so let's say here's the arising you've got the card installed here in the top slot okay and then there's one in the next one but it's like a short one like that killer NIC right there as long as that fan has breathing room you should be in pretty good shape some of the fan down there all right so that's another thing to bear in mind you do need two slots so you got two mounting screw points right there other things you will need you will need two PCI Express six pin power connectors so in my case that is check and check these are both six plus two pins so they can be plugged into either a six pin or an eight pin slot on the graphics card so from there you take off the screws which I have already done all go to toggle okay take off your side panel which I've already done you take off your screws which I have apparently already done you position the card after grounding yourself which means touching the power supply while it's plugged into the wall as a cat okay so you position it above the slot making sure that you've here's a common mistake make sure this metal part right here isn't pressing into the motherboard when you go to push it in you see there's a little tiny gap back there make sure it's in the gap make sure it's not pushing into the board I've done that usually bad results okay so you positioned above the slot and then push firmly I'm going to use my camera hand in addition to my other hand push firmly on the entire card until it sits into the slot okay so you'll be able to see now it's there's a little bit of wiggle room but it's pretty much in there so you should use two screws to secure this particular card one goes here I'm using thumb screws lots of different cases have lots of different mounting mechanisms how would I tend to do is I give the card a bit of a lift as I'm screwing it in so what that does is it make sure that I don't have any undue weight or strain being left on the socket okay and then the screw threading is broken on my case I just push the screw and that's all I can really do there that says that's as in as it goes all right then we connect the power connectors which is pretty straightforward hide those extra two pins and that's it that's my 6870 installation guide you have now installed a Radeon 6870 enjoy your DirectX 10 gaming performance featuring the MSI 6870 we've even got like an afterburner ad on their card it's a good piece of software but yeah