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I'm sorry this one took me so long to get to you guys this is the Radeon HD 69 50 but what's special about this one is right here this is a one gig version of the ever popular 69 50 which means that well basically and you can check out the reviews on any number of the popular review sites my personal favorite these days is Hardware Canucks comm but basically what this card offers is most of the performance of a 69 50 regular card with a lower price because it has less memory and so it is therefore less expensive so let's have a look at what are the key features here so HD 3d it supports 3d Blu ray as well as 3d gaming DirectX 11 Eyefinity and believe this one supports I don't remember I think it's something like four or five displays or something ridiculous like that guys please leave a comment with how many displays are supported by this particular card an eye affinity parallel processing high-speed gddr5 memory CrossFireX multi GPU support which is very nice Oh what else do we got here hdmi 1.4 a with support for starett stereoscopic 3d so that's a big one and DisplayPort 1.2 okay what else do we got here five star support okay so that's more of an XFX specific thing ah okay AMD eyefinity you can support three or more displays to enable more than two displays native DisplayPort connection or certified DisplayPort adapters must be used okay and have a look now one of the things that you will notice about this and any 69 51 gig card is that these cards are no longer based on the original reference design which used the same PCB as the 69 70 so that means the unlocking trick is not an option here folks there's a little brochure for XFX Pro Series power supplies with five-year warranty their power supplies are exceptional by the way in case you guys are wondering and you it's someone other than XFX to tell you that here's the North American limited warranty don't forget XFX has actually I wonder what the warranty is on this particular car I actually don't you know let me have a look because many XFX cards do have lifetime warranty but I don't know if it's necessarily all of them these days okay well let's see what it says in here guys the limited hardware warranty okay what it's not covered by limited hardware warranty how long does it last the limited hardware warranties for a period of two years two years for this one oh okay if you register the product online within 30 days of purchase your limited warranty will be extended for the duration of your life I don't forget that you can transfer the limited warranty to one other owner and XFX also covers it has a modder friendly warranty so if you replace the stock cooler and it's the card breaks after you've been using it with the nonstop cooler for a while as long as you were using it correctly and as long as you can return the card to its original condition you still have one two hundred three nice huh driver see the installation guide don't use the driver CD don't use that installation guide just download latest drivers off the NAD website and the driver installation CD you throw it away and I love these XFX door hangers do not disturb I'm gaming I've been doing this a fair bit lately but I'm actually gonna go on a little adventure into the other part of my house you can see my cat again hey you hello and I'll show you guys I actually have one of the older XFX do not disturb I'm gaming door hangers this is back when XFX was geforce only so there you go there's their support information as well so yeah that's one of my one of my favorite little swag bits to get in a box with something is actually these door hangers I think they're neat okay in here we have a crossfire branch that's it fine and the card itself so not only does it not use a reference PCB but this card also does not use a reference cooler so let's show you guys what's going down in this funky town so here's the 69 50 you can see right here it's using a vapor chamber cooler design so you can tell that from the flat rectangular copper piece at the back so you can see the corners here here here and here and then that vapor chamber actually has like a flower style heatsink here you can I'm gonna position myself under the light a little bit better so you guys can see but you can see the way that the airflow is going to go through this fan is that it's going to come in here and then it's actually going to go not only down into the flower fins here but also to the side and it will be making use of this surface area over here as well then it'll be exhausted out of these vents which is gonna cause some warm air to be recycled but it shouldn't be too bad as long as you don't have a card right directly next to it and then also all out the top here as well as presume oh not at the bottom okay so only out the top and then out the back so the voltage regulation stuff is all in whoops is all in here and you're gonna get some incidental airflow from the fan blowing air this way and then having it coming out the back of the card like a reference 6950 on the 2gig version this uses two 6-pin PCI Express connectors for power on the back you can see XFX is trademark matte black PCB love it everything looks good in matte black everything the whole computer should just be matte black and that would be optimal so here we've got all of our RAM chips on the back of the card we've also got the GPU itself there's the bat power connectors and here's all of our display connectors and speaking of those why don't we have a look at what options we have so there's a little XFX logo I don't turn this around so we can enjoy that XFX logo and all of it right-side-up glory so we've got two DVI connectors one HDMI IN to display parts and my assumption would be this card supports up to four wait I finna D so two of these two of these or two of these and to these and yeah so these are mini DisplayPort just so you guys know if you're not familiar with that particular connector so this mini DisplayPort to display port adapter can just be a passive adapter it's not expensive quite inexpensive indeed and let's just have a closer look at the front of the part itself because it's actually quite an quite a sharp-looking card there's the you can't really tell in the camera but these are chrome accents here okay and then this is grey and this is black so it's uh once you've got that installed in your system it's gonna be like to be nice looking actually you can see that shine there so yeah you get pretty much all of the performance of the 6950 unless you're running at uber high resolutions like eyefinity triple HD resolution or if you're running at 2560 by 1600 you need that additional frame buffer the two gig card will perform better but if you don't need it the one gig card will perform just as well so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the XFX Radeon HD 6950 one gig graphics card oh hey here's something cool Oh totally forgot to mention this got to crossfire fingers so that supports up to 3-way crossfire X also runs on PCI Express standard 16 X connector and last but not least check this out so they've still got that BIOS which on here so you can actually load an aftermarket BIOS in one of the positions and then if it doesn't work you can just flip yourself back to the original BIOS with this little switch right in there don't forget to subscribe