 Today we're going to be unboxing something very exciting from AMD and actually it's funny that I should say from AMD because right here you can see They've actually changed the branding finally. AMD acquired ATI way long time ago but now finally instead of ATI Radeon graphics it is now officially AMD Radeon graphics as of the 6000 series So this is the Radeon 6870 which is one of the first two Radeon 6000 series graphics cards. It supports up to four displays in AMD iFinity so that's an increase of one more display from the 5870 series Okay so that means you can run two off of the display port so those are two mini display port and then two off of DVI or HDMI so you've got a total of three connectors there. Let's turn this over and we'll have a look at what it's got to say about itself on the box So this is an MSI card that means they've got a lot on here about MSI Afterburner which allows you to overclock and do optimal fan profiles all that good stuff. Afterburner is an awesome piece of software You've probably seen me use it on my blog a lot of times. It's got solid caps which means up to 10 years of lifetime. They actually calculated out to 12 years assuming you're actually gaming 24-7 for all 12 years Here's a couple of highlighted features which I guess I'll sort of I'll talk about that briefly while I open the box and we'll have a look at this card right away because to be perfectly honest with you I have not seen this I have never seen one of these cards. This is going to be my first time just like you. Nice sticker actually. Okay so there it is. That is the Radeon HD 6870 Let's get it down here and then I'm just going to lay this out for you to sort of for cameraman to look at while I tell you a little bit more about it So in terms of we already talked about the displays out. So we have support for AMD Avivo. That's their HD video and display technology. We've got Crossfire X. Okay we've got only one Crossfire finger up there so that means we've only got two-way Crossfire not three-way Crossfire We have iFinity technology with support for up to three displays. Hold on a minute. Pause the video Blu-ray movie acceleration. By the way that looks like a typo on the features of the box because it does support four displays. It's compliant with DirectX 11 which we already have come to expect and it is designed for Direct Compute 5.0 and OpenCL Windows 7 support is a given and it can accelerate office 2010 applications. It supports HDMI 1.4a which means that you do have support for Blu-ray 3D playback with the appropriate software. So let's start moving this card around and have a look at it So as I mentioned before we've got one Crossfire finger up here at the top for up to two-way Crossfire so you can run two 6870s in a Crossfire configuration. You've got a really slick looking shroud on here. So this part is actually metal so what I'm going to go ahead and speculate Actually here maybe I can see through there. No I can't really see in there but I would speculate that this piece of metal is actually cooling some of the RAM chips on the front of the card and then it turns into plastic at this seam right here as far as I can tell So that's just a plastic fan shroud. You've got two 6-pin PCI Express connectors and then moving around to the back of the card you've got a continuation of that pattern that's just going to look really really sharp in your case whether you have a case where the graphics cards are installed this way or one where you've got your motherboard tray on the other side and it installs this way. It just looks really good Alright so let's move around to the business end of the card where we have two DVI connectors, one HDMI connector. Now just like the 5000 series you can only use two of these at a time. If you want four displays that means that two of them will be powered by the mini DisplayPort connectors which you find here. Much like the 5870 it has only a half exhaust at the back of the IO panel so that means that all of the air will have to be exhausted out that small hole. With the 5000 series it didn't have a huge impact on the cooling performance so I wouldn't worry too much about it for this one because I'd say based on the overall weight of the card, the dimensions of the cooler, the size of the fan, it's probably got pretty similar thermal characteristics to the last generation card. On the back we find a slick black PCB. Now one thing that might seem like it's missing from a 6870 card is like a shroud on the back but you've got to remember the 6800 series is not the equivalent of the 5800 series in terms of where it belongs in the AMD lineup. This is actually going to be a performance card but not an extreme card. This isn't the highest end series. So let's go ahead and put this down and let's take out what we have in here in terms of accessories. So first we have a quick user's guide, then we have a driver disc which you may actually need to use depending on when AMD releases the drivers on their site. Okay, driver and utility. Then we have a mini display port to display port adapter so that will allow you to at least run iFINITY with three displays if you don't have any mini display port monitors or adapters. Then you've got two Molex to PCIe 6-pin power connectors. You've got one Crossfire bridge which is all you will need. Then you have a DVI to VGA adapter if you are still using a VGA monitor. Last but not least we've got a 6800 series. Well another quick start guide by the look of things shows you how to update your drivers using their live update. So there you have it, the 6800 series, 6870 from MSI and we're going to be doing a ton of videos about this guy, power consumption, length, review, all that good stuff so stay tuned.