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one gig of gddr5 although this GPU is available with more memory and i might recommend stepping up to the 2gig one if it doesn't cost that much more its PCI Express 2.0 DirectX 11 its supports AMD eyefinity all those good things and here we are so we got a piece of foam here that keeps it in place we've got a graphics card here that puts your games in their place and we've got a couple of little adapters I remember when graphics cards used to have a lot of different stuff in the packages and honestly I don't really miss those days because nowadays they come with exactly what you need and not a whole lot more now this card is not based on exactly the same court as the 7770 in the 77 50 and it's also not based on the same core as the 78 50 and the 7870 in fact the rumor on the street is that this would have been an 8000 series card if things had gone slightly differently for it and it would have been more like a replacement for a 77 70 as a next generation architecture and it kind of aligns with that rumor in terms of the performance although I can neither confirm nor deny whether that was ever true or not because quite I actually don't know so there you go I don't even know why I bought they're talking about that MSI includes little dust covers on all of the connectors so you don't have to worry about any kind of corrosion or like you know bio hazardous bleaches eating the connectors while it's in transit or whatever else could possibly happen to a DVI connector while sitting in a box it also gives you if you're ever storing the card like if you want to keep it on like a trophy shelf like if you want to tournament with this card and you wanted to like put it somewhere and keep it on display then you could cover up the connectors so that they don't get covered in you know what why don't I just stay focused from now on so we've got a 100 millimeter cooling fan that uses MSI's propeller blades so you can tell from the the tip on there so these are designed to push a little bit more airflow than standard blades remember cooling graphics cards is a bit of a challenge because of the form factors that are necessary this is a 2 slot card and so you often end up using thin fans that aren't really able to do much in terms of static pressure you also often end up with very dense fin arrangements so it's incredibly important to design a fan that is able to deliver ample pressure in order to push air through these fans and actually cool the GPU as well as the other components of the card itself the shroud is plastic but it has kind of a nice look to it MSI has really done a great job with their styling over the last few years so there's a solid aluminum block here that is attached to some aluminum fins up here and then there are two heat pipes that appear to be direct touch heat pipe so those are contacting the GPU core directly and they then carry heat out to the aluminum finish meant here as well as here now you can see into the back of the card there's some components that look like they're gonna get some incidental cooling from the fan itself as well as your single 6 pin PCI Express connector then over here we've got another heatsink that's attached directly to the PCB that's going to be for your vrm so they're actually bringing power into the board at the back and then turning it into the different voltages that the board itself can use that the chips on board can use right over here so that's sort of fancy routing but it's not the first time we've seen this particularly on these shorter length PCI Express cards so you can see the card itself isn't much longer than a PCI Express slot and I think it's pretty much all there is to say about that okay yep on the back we find we're gonna be exhausting some of the air outside the case but like most custom cooled cards this one exhausts most of the air inside the case so make sure you have adequate ventilation to DVI ports an HDMI and DisplayPort ports ensure that this card is able to support and izaya finiti so that means a multiple displays and they really do have the best driver support for this guys if you want a game across multiple displays it's probably a good idea to grab an AMD card however don't buy this one if you're gonna buy this one buy the 2gig version because even older games once you start playing at extremely high resolutions stand a pretty good chance of utilizing all of that video memory that they have available to them one gigs really not going to be enough for you there it does support crossfire so there's a single crossfire connector on the top of the card meaning that's going to be compatible with two-way configurations and this is something that I haven't really seen on an MSI card before but it looks like they don't want you removing that stock CPU cooler so your warranty will be void on this card if you remove that and take off the cooler however it should be noted that these low end cards particularly the aftermarket PCB ones are usually not compatible with liquid coolers anyway particularly full cover ones and if you're gonna spend the money on a liquid cooler a full cover blocks 100 bucks plus so I wouldn't be doing it on a card that doesn't cost that much more than 100 270 dollars so there that's my tech tip of the day don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and don't forget to check out my review of this car - MSI is 77 9000 C which is also on my channel