 This video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance K70 and K95. These fully mechanical keyboards are designed for performance gaming. Visit corsair.com slash Vengeance Gaming to learn more. Tell me something, am I the only one who gets confused by AMD's naming scheme? Do you know how many times I've had to reshoot part of a video? Because I was like, today we're gonna be having a look at the 7970 versus the 7790 or the 7770 or the 7990. I mean, there's only two numbers that change. They should just call them like the, you know, Rejuvenator. And like the... like the... the... the Bushmaster. Or like things like that. They should have names like Pocket Knives. Anyway, this is the 7790, which is slightly better than the 7770, but not nearly as good as the 7970. This is one from MSI. It is an overclocked graphics card, which basically means that it comes with a higher default clock speed than a stock one from directly from AMD would, if you could buy something like that in the year wasn't sort of 2006. It has 1 gig of GDDR5, although this GPU is available with more memory, and I might recommend stepping up to the 2 gig one if it doesn't cost that much more. It's PCI Express 3.0, DirectX 11, it supports AMD iFINITY, all those good things. And here we are. So we got a piece of foam here that keeps it in place. We've got a graphics card here that puts your games in their place. And we've got a couple of little adapters. I remember when graphics cards used to have a lot of different stuff in the packages. And honestly, I don't really miss those days, because nowadays they come with exactly what you need and not a whole lot more. Now, this card is not based on exactly the same core as the 7770 and the 7750, and it's also not based on the same core as the 7850 and the 7870. In fact, the rumor on the street is that this would have been an 8000 series card if things had gone slightly differently for it, and it would have been more like a replacement for a 7770 as a next generation architecture. And it kind of aligns with that rumor in terms of the performance, although I can neither confirm nor deny whether that was ever true or not, because quite frankly, I actually don't know. So there you go. I don't even know why I bothered talking about that. MSI includes little dust covers on all of the connectors, so you don't have to worry about any kind of corrosion or like, you know, biohazardous leeches eating the connectors while it's in transit or whatever else could possibly happen to a DVI connector while it's sitting in a box. It also gives you, if you're ever storing the card, like if you want to keep it on like a trophy shelf, like if you want a tournament with this card and you wanted to like put it somewhere and keep it on display, then you could cover up the connectors so that they don't get covered in dust or something like that. You know what? Why don't I just stay focused from now on? So we've got a 100 millimeter cooling fan that uses MSI's propeller blades. So you can tell from the tip on there. So these are designed to push a little bit more airflow than standard blades. Remember, cooling graphics cards is a bit of a challenge because of the form factors that are necessary. This is a two slot card. And so you often end up using thin fans that aren't really able to do much in terms of static pressure. You also often end up with very dense fin arrangements. So it's incredibly important to design a fan that is able to deliver ample pressure in order to push air through these fins and actually cool the GPU as well as the other components of the card itself. The shroud is plastic, but it has kind of a nice look to it. MSI has really done a great job with their styling over the last few years. So there's a solid aluminum block here that is attached to some aluminum fins up here. And then there are two heat pipes that appear to be direct touch heat pipes. So those are contacting the GPU core directly. And they then carry heat out to the aluminum fin arrangement here as well as here. Now you can see into the back of the card, there's some components that look like they're going to get some incidental cooling from the fan itself as well as your single six pin PCI Express connector. Then over here, we've got another heat sink that's attached directly to the PCB. That's going to be for your VRM. So they're actually bringing power into the board at the back and then turning it into the different voltages that the board itself can use, that the chips on board can use right over here. So that's sort of fancy routing, but it's not the first time we've seen this, particularly on these shorter length PCI Express cards. So you can see the card itself isn't much longer than a PCI Express slot. And I think that's pretty much all there is to say about that. Okay, cool. Yep. On the back, we find we're going to be exhausting some of the air outside the case. But like most custom cooled cards, this one exhausts most of the air inside the case. So make sure you have adequate ventilation. Two DVI ports, an HDMI and DisplayPort ports. Ensure that this card is able to support AMD's iFINITY. So that means multiple displays, and they really do have the best driver support for this, guys. If you want a game across multiple displays, it's probably a good idea to grab an AMD card. However, don't buy this one. If you're going to buy this one, buy the 2GIG version, because even older games, once you start playing at extremely high resolutions, stand a pretty good chance of utilizing all of that video memory that they have available to them. 1GIG's really not going to be enough for you there. It does support Crossfire. So there's a single Crossfire connector on the top of the card, meaning that it's going to be compatible with two-way configurations. And this is something that I haven't really seen on an MSI card before, but it looks like they don't want you removing that stock CPU cooler. So your warranty will be void on this card if you remove that and take off the cooler. However, it should be noted that these low-end cards, particularly the aftermarket PCB ones, are usually not compatible with liquid coolers anyway, particularly full cover ones. And if you're going to spend the money on a liquid cooler, a full cover block's 100 bucks plus, so I wouldn't be doing it on a card that doesn't cost that much more than 100 to 170 dollars. So there, that's my tech tip of the day. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And don't forget to check out my review of this card, the MSI's 7790OC, which is also on my channel.