Gadgetory

so today on my video blog on boxing we have the XFX Radeon 5870 so this is the new will V DirectX 11 card on the market right now so that means if you want to run DirectX 11 titles which are coming out on Windows 7 you will need a 58 70 and the 58 50 is actually coming shortly so as I said before this is an XFX card so even though it's using the reference cooler like all of the 58 70s at launch you do get the benefit of XFX is 5 star support which means you've got a double lifetime water friendly warranty and I'm pretty sure there are other benefits too but this is an unboxing so we'll go with the unboxing aspect of it okay I love this I've seen this before with XFX as cards it's a door hanger do not disturb I'm gaming awesome it also has a convenient little thing which has your part number in your serial number so if you ever need to call XFX support you've got all the info you need right there here's your quick installation guide showing you how to install the card in your system then you have a full installation guide which shows you how to install the drivers so they're instructing you to use the XFX included CD but by the time these cards are actually out there you're going to want to download the latest drivers on ATI comm so here's your driver installation CD and then we have Oh congratulations on your purchase of a new H everyday on graphics card and you get a copy of dirt 2 which is included as far as I know with all 5870 graphics cards so let's see let's do the accessory package here first okay in here we have a crossfire bridge 2 molex to PCI Express 6 pin adapters and one DVI to VGA adapter now that brings us to the card itself which you can see is incredibly well packed in here with all this foam that's awesome to see ok here we go this is the XFX Radeon HD 5870 now here let's just start at the back of the card and move our way to the front so we've got DisplayPort which is an open standard a lot like HDMI except with HDMI which we also have you got to pay a royalty now like all HD series cards for the last couple generations you do get audio out via HDMI so that's really cool then you've got dual DVI as well as those other display standards so you can actually run up to three monitors off of this card now here you've got your vents so let's go around we'll have a look at the sticker design because the sticker design is going to be the major difference between all of the launch cards so you can see the fan here sucks air in from the back and from the top of the card and then exhaust it out that little tiny vent now that is a bit of a limitation of the design but there's not much we can do about it this has been kind of compared to the Batmobile in in shape here and I think that's definitely an accurate comparison it's pretty cool looking from the front up on the top let's get to the the no-nonsense features here so we've got two PCI Express six pin connectors this is a very power efficient card so there's no need to go crazy and put on a bunch of eight pin sort of connectors when it's installed in your case it's going to look a little bit something like this you got your ATI Radeon graphics logo thing here and then on the back we've seen this before with the launch versions of the GTX 260 and 280 we've got a full heatsink on the back cooling the RAM in addition to your backplate so I really like to see that - this is a PCI Express 16 X card and I think that pretty much sums up the Radeon HD 5870 thank you for checking out my unboxing