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okay so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the all-new ATI Radeon HD 5830 this is a part that is positioned sort of between the 57 70 and the 58 50 but it is more like a 5800 series than a 50 700 series hence team name so this is from power color it is a PCS Plus which is I believe their branding for overclocked video cards it has one gigabyte of gddr5 memory something about unleashing the gaming power and it also has DVI HDMI and DisplayPort like all of the other 5800 series cards so around at the back you can see it is powered by ATI Radeon 58 30 it has a 256-bit memory interface PCI Express 2 DirectX 11 stream technology supports crossfire and it better for the price built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound and all of this basically looks like the same stuff it's funny they didn't even mention I affinity here but Eyefinity is here so you can run up to 3 displays I also have a guide on how to set up Eyefinity you should probably check that out at some point and why don't we start getting this on packaged hey the plastic is off its naked sort of oh I don't have a knife I never have a knife see and I think someone actually took the knife that I keep in this room so I'm gonna go ahead and just like stab through the protective sticker with a pen just kind of yeah we're making things work there we go the box is officially opened and now it's naked nope no it's still got another box see this is this is like an unbox bucks box bag thing because there are lots of boxes and bags ah another bag ok well why don't we start with the accessories you gotta be kidding me this I have never seen something like this before I thought maybe it was a joke but I figured it out now this is a banana digital King best CDR 52 X compact disc recordable from goshi digital it is a grade recordable CD and it is for high-speed driver so if you drive fast and you are ok so there's something some data burn to it I'm gonna go ahead and assume that this is the latest drivers so for the first time ever I'm actually going to recommend installing the driver that comes on the CD because they clearly downloaded the latest driver off the ATI website burn it to a CD and there it is ready for your installation so thank you power color for actually the attention to detail of giving us the very latest drivers for this brand new card I'm going to assume that any future iterations of the 5830 are going to come with a real driver CD but that's still pretty funny alright so what's next next we have an installation guide alright so the installation guides quite long it's in a wide variety of languages it shows you how to install a graphics card in 8 times 2 is 16 different languages and I'm going to go ahead and close that right back up while the cameraman tries to look at it oh hey I actually folded it out to the English side check that out so we have a 57 50 there for their demo ok next in terms of accessories we have a part of the box that I can't figure out how to open actually ok and in here we have a crossfire bridge and a DVI to VGA adapter ok so not not a whole lot going on in there let's just put that back ok let's have a look at the card itself this is the exciting part now something to note about 5800 series 5830 cards is that there is no reference cooler design in fact there is no reference design so what a reference design is is it's a standardized PCB and a standardized heat sink that ATI says ok this is what we recommend that you use and most launch cards are actually like 99% of the time based on a reference design but ATI doesn't have a reference 5830 so the board partners were left to come up with whatever they want in this case power caller has put together a very attractive looking card like a 92 millimeter fan with one two three count on for heat pipes coming out the top to spread the heat evenly throughout this fin arrangement which we can actually see more clearly from this side so check that out so you got four heat pipes going across the core of the GPU and then they come out here here here and here for really good cooling that's actually kind of a neat shot you can see the structure of the heatsink there if you look down at it from that ankle so this is a PCI Express 16 X card all right now you've got a lot of enough angles there oh I like this too check this out okay most cards for the 5800 series have the vrm or the voltage regulator module cooling integrated into the same metal chunk that cools the RAM as well as the GPU but you can see we've got a separate heatsink here and I actually prefer that method because VRMs they get hot but they don't actually produce a lot of heat so as long as you've got some incidental airflow and a separate a nice well secured you can see they've got actually three pegs through this thing to make sure it stays nice and well attached heatsink you can actually remove more heat that way can you see that pretty good awesome two PCI Express 16x connectors and I don't like this these this is quite a long part actually and you can see that these are coming out this side so that means you have to account for an additional like you know couple centimeters out the back of the card to make sure that it can fit in your case I mean as long as you've got a pretty good performance case that's nice and long then you should be alright okay Ram so it has one gig of ram and you can see the ram is actually not directly cooled but it's all positioned underneath that 92 millimeter fan so I wouldn't worry about that getting hot at all at the top of the card we find two cross fire fingers okay remember when you're running two cards it's actually you can see better performance if you just use one crossfire bridge and then at the back of the card there's not a whole lot to talk about the whole heatsink assembly is held on by four screws okay four screws actually those are kind of funny scale okay there's lots crews you can just use a slot screwdriver for that okay never mind nothing don't look at that okay here we have DisplayPort HDMI and DVI so the the old 5800 series cards usually had two DV is right here and here but you can just use DVI and HDMI to DVI cable or adapter remember they are in terms of signal they are identical so you there's no quality loss there's nothing like that and then DisplayPort if you want to run a third monitor you will need either a DisplayPort monitor or an active DisplayPort to DVI adapter you can't just use like a passive cable and then they've actually got I like this - they've got actual slots here for the air to escape out of your case even though based on the design of the cooler I can tell you already that not all of the air will be directed in this direction a lot of it'll go here a lot of it will go here but at least we're exhausting some air thank you for checking out my exhausting unboxing speaking of exhausting of the Radeon HD 5830