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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the XFX Radeon 58 50 now these launched at the same time as the 58 70s but the availability hasn't been quite as good for them so let's get started here and cut the seal there we go so it's pretty much based around the same chip the same amount of RAM all that kind of stuff but the difference between the 58 70 and the 58 50 is that it's clocked a little bit lower and it's also missing a couple of the deep what is it the processing cores or something like that anyway it's clocked at 725 megahertz and the RAM is clocked at 4.00 gigahertz instead of 4.8 gigahertz like the 58 70 so let's get this sort of shoe box style box open and like all the 58 70's it comes with a free copy of dirt 2 and then we've got a quick install guide here there you are there's your quick install guide then there's a little okay here's a full installation guide which is actually not that much longer than the quick install guide but that covers the software aspect of things there we go and then we have a drivers disc ATI graphics pH a driver you're gonna want to download the latest drivers anyway though don't bother with that under here we have one of these cool door hangers do not disturb I'm gaming then inside here we have play heart okay so we've got two molex to PCI Express 6 pin adapters one crossfire bridge which is quite normal for a Radeon card and then we have a DVI to VGA adapter if you're actually still using a VGA monitor which please get a new monitor because that is quite ancient at this time okay inside here we will find the 5850 now you can see it's not quite as well padded as the 5870 but it's also a slightly smaller card so let's get this out let's get this closed and here is the 5850 so on the front of the card you've got XFX as graphics and then you've got the same fan they use on the 5870 then on the top of the card you can see we've got the ATI Radeon logo to crossfire bridges although I've heard performance is actually better if you use just one the back of the card we start seeing a pretty big difference here because instead of having a black shroud on the back it's only a bare PCB with a back plate so that's quite different from the other card now on the back we find two PCI Express six pin connectors and again you're gonna notice the difference you know what why don't I just grab the other card here for comparison okay so here's the 5870 compared to the 5850 you can see it's actually quite a bit longer but on the 5870 the PCI Express connectors are here whereas on the 5850 they're at the back so you actually have to account for an extra like you know probably to three centimeters for that connector and the cables coming off the back so it's not that much shorter now these are both PCI Express 16x cards and they both have the same connectors at the back so you can connect up to three monitors one DisplayPort and then you can do either HDMI and DVI or DVI and DVI it will not work with HDMI DVI DVI and you can't use a passive DisplayPort to DVI adapter anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing on the XFX Radeon HD 5830