 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the MSI Radeon 7850 Power Edition. Remember, Power Edition cards feature enhanced thermal performance with twin Frozr coolers. This one has the twin Frozr 4 and triple over voltage enhanced PWM design. So what does an enhanced PWM design mean? Basically, better voltage regulation for the memory as well as the GPU core and full support for triple over voltage. So triple over voltage basically amounts to being able to overvolt the GPU, the PLL, and the memory through MSI Afterburner software. So we've got a mini display port, a full-size display port adapter included, DVI to VGA adapter included, some useless disks and manuals, and if you really need to know how to install a graphics card at this point, then I have a video about that so don't worry too much about the paper manual that comes with your graphics card. You've got a dual Molex to six pin PCIe connector because this is a 7850 so you only need one of them. It's a very small, very compact card and so you can quite plainly tell that MSI has done up their own... Come on. Yeah, see the PCI bracket punctured the bag so I couldn't get it out. So MSI has done completely their own custom PCB in order to build a beefier PWM as well as just generally a better board for more overclocking goodness. So this is more of a value-oriented card. This is like value gaming, not like value cards. So you're still going to get dramatically better performance than you'd get with any kind of an onboard or like ghetto low-end card solution, but you're not going to pay a boatload for it and the great thing about their power addition cards is that while they do cost a little bit more than reference cards, it's not that much considering the extra benefit. So you got the TwinFrozer 4 cooler which basically means on this particular version, this is a small, I mean this is a low power chip and everything, you've got three heat pipes that are fanning out to sort of a radiator style... here, I'll get you guys a better angle at it... radiator style aluminum fins that cover the entire length and width of the PCB. Very, very nice, very good cooling. You've also got... check this out... so this piece right here is actually fully attached to... here, I'm going to try and get you guys like an angle. Can you see in there? Can you see the full unisync that's covering the entire card? So that gives this card a lot of rigidity. Like check this out, there's no flex to it. It gives it... okay, well, okay, there is if I grab the cooler, but if you actually take the PCB, compared to a regular card, it's very rigid, it's very strong, so you have the cooling benefit of having a heatsink over all the RAM chips and PWM, and then you've also got the benefit of once you install it in the card, it's not going to sag like a lot of cards do because they have that flex. So I really like that about this particular design that we've seen on some of MSI's recent cards. The TwinFrozer 4 has a lot of different things going for it. So it's got heat pipes, it's got dual fans, it's got propeller blades, which basically amount to more airflow, and they will spin in reverse at the beginning. This is the feature of the TwinFrozer 4 in order to remove dust from the fins before turning around and spinning the other way to actually cool the card. So you'll notice when you first boot it up, it's quite loud, but that's normal. It's trying to blow all the dust out of it before it actually starts cooling the card. This will mean that you won't have to clean this card out as often as you would with a normal one. I also love the look of their TwinFrozer cards. So they've got like, you know, MSI sort of silver, black thing going on, usually a little color accent, thing like that. Looks really, really sharp. Okay, in terms of overall features of the board. So it's a little slower than a 7870, but given the difference in price, it's definitely justifiable. It also only uses a single PCIe 6-pin, PCI power connector, so that's a 6-pin right there, not even an 8-pin. It has full support for iFINITY, so it supports up to four displays. You've got two mini display ports on this card, HDMI and DVI out. So actually, I think it in theory supports more than that if you daisy-chain additional displays, but let's go ahead and say four at least for now. In fact, let's have a look at what MSI has to say about the card. So you've got iFINITY, HD3D, which we've tried and we've got 4K support, which is actually really cool. So you can drive a 4K display off this card. That's new with the 7000 generation of cards. Deep color and 3 GHz, K-Dolby Trim, MediaPlay, PowerPlay, PowerTune. Ah, yes, 28 nanometer process technology. This is an extremely power-efficient card, and performance and overclocking are outstanding given that the price that you're looking at is also fully PCI Express 3.0 compliant, which for a card like this is not going to amount to any kind of a performance delta, but I mean, there you have it. If you have a PCIe3 board and you really want a PCIe3 card, you can put this in it. You've also got full support for AMD Crossfire. It's two-way only, not three-way, so bear that in mind. There's only one Crossfire instead of Crossfire fingers up at the top, and I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of First Look at the 7850 Power Edition from MSI. 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