 I'm sorry this one took me so long to get to you guys. This is the Radeon HD 6950 but what's special about this one is right here This is a 1 gig version of the ever popular 6950 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 calm, but basically what this card offers is most of the performance of a 6950 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 direct X 11 I affinity I 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 and I affinity parallel processing high speed GDDR5 memory crossfire X multi GPU support which is very nice What else do we got here HDMI 1.4 a with support for Sarah stereoscopic 3d? So that's a big one and display port 1.2 Okay, what else do we got here five star support? Okay So that's more of an XFX specific thing Okay, I am the iPhone you can support three or more displays to enable more than two displays native display port connection or certified Displayport adapters must be used okay Let's open this guy up and have a look now one of the things that you will notice about this and And any sixty nine fifty one gig card is that these cards are no longer based on the original reference design Which used the same PCB as the 6970? So that means the unlocking trick is not an option here folks Here'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 were wondering and you wanted someone other than XFX to tell you that Here's the North America limited warranty Don't forget XFX has actually, I wonder what the Warranty is on this particular card. I actually don't know. Let me have a look cuz 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 modern friendly warranty. So if you replace the stock cooler and It's the card breaks after you've been using it with the non stock 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 warranty on it. Pretty nice, huh? Driver CD installation guide don't use the driver CD. Don't use that installation guide Just download the latest drivers off the AMD website and the driver installation CD 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 g-force 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 bridge. That's it fine And the card itself so not only does it not use a reference PCV 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 6950 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 heat sink 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 gonna go through this fan is that it's gonna 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'll be making use of this surface area over here as well, then it'll be exhausted out of these vents Which is going to 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 presumed. Oh not at the bottom Okay, so only at 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 a Coming out the back of the card Like a reference 6950 or in the 2gig version this uses two 6-pin PCI Express connectors For power on the back you can see XFX's 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 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 Why don't we turn this around so we can enjoy that XFX logo and all of its bright side up glory So we've got two DVI connectors one HDMI and two display ports. My assumption would be this card supports up to four way Ifinity so two of these two of these or two of these two of these and Yeah, so these are mini display port just so you guys know if you're not familiar with that particular connector So a mini display port 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 card itself because it's actually quite a quite a sharp looking card There's the you can't really tell in the card But these are chrome accents here. Okay, and then this is gray and this is black So it's once you've got that installed in your system It's going to be like pretty nice looking actually You can see that shine there So, yeah, you get pretty much all of the performance of a 6950 unless you're running at uber high resolutions like Ifinity triple HD resolution or if you're running at 2560 by 1600 you need that additional frame buffer The 2gig card will perform better, but if you don't need it the 1gig card will perform just as well So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the XFX Radeon HD 6950 1gig graphics card. Oh, hey, here's something cool. Oh Totally forgot to mention this got two crossfire fingers So that supports up to three-way crossfire X also runs on PCI express standard 16x connector And last but not least check this out. So they've still got that bios switch 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!