 Okay, so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the all-new ATI Radeon HD 5830. This is a part that is positioned sort of between the 5770 and the 5850, but it is more like a 5800 series than a 5700 series, hence the name. So this is from PowerColor. It is a PCS Plus, which I believe they're branding for overclocked video cards. It has 1GB of GDDR5 memory, something about unleashing the gaming power, and it also has DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort, like all of the other 5800 series cards. So around at the back, you can see it is powered by ATI Radeon 5830. It has a 256-bit memory interface, PCI Express 2, DirectX 11, Stream technology, supports Crossfire and it better for the price, built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound, and all of this basically looks like the same stuff. It's funny, they didn't even mention iFinity here, but iFinity is here. So you can run up to three displays. I also have a guide on how to set up iFinity. You should probably check that out at some point. And why don't we start getting this unpackaged. Okay, the plastic is off. It's naked, sort of. Oh, I don't have a knife. I never have a knife. See? And I think someone actually took the knife that I keep in this room, so I'm going to go ahead and just like stab through the protective sticker with a pen. Just kind of, yeah, we're making things work. There we go. The box is officially opened and now it's naked. No, no, it's still got another box. See this is like an unbox box, box bag thing because there are lots of boxes and bags. Ah, another bag. Okay, well, why don't we start with the accessories? You got to be kidding me. I have never seen something like this before. I thought maybe it was a joke, but I figured it out now. This is a Banana Digital King Best CD-R52X Compact Disc Recordable from Goshi Digital. It is A grade recordable CD and it is for high speed driver. So if you drive fast and you are... Okay, so there's something, some data burn to it. I'm going to go ahead and assume that this is the latest driver. So for the first time ever, I'm actually going to recommend installing the driver that comes on the CD because they clearly downloaded the latest driver off the ATI website, burned it to a CD and there it is ready for your installation. So thank you Power Color for actually the attention to detail of giving us the very latest drivers for this brand new card. I'm going to assume that any future iterations of the 5830 are going to come with a real driver CD, but that's still pretty funny. All right, so what's next? Next we have an installation guide. All right, so the installation guide is quite long. It's in a wide variety of languages. It shows you how to install a graphics card in eight times two is 16 different languages. And I'm going to go ahead and close that right back up while the cameraman tries to look at it. Oh, hey, I actually folded it out to the English side. Check that out. So they have a 5750 there for their demo. Okay. Next, in terms of accessories, we have a part of the box that I can't figure out how to open. Oh, it's actually like sealed in there. Okay. And in here we have a crossfire bridge and a DVI to VGA adapter. Okay. So not a whole lot going on in there. Let's just put that back. Okay. Let's have a look at the card itself. This is the exciting part. Now something to note about 5800, or 5800, 5830 cards is that there is no reference cooler design. In fact, there is no reference design. So what a reference design is, is it's a standardized PCB and a standardized heat sink that ATI says, okay, this is what we recommend that you use. And most launch cards are actually like 99% of the time based on a reference design. But ATI doesn't have a reference 5830, so the board partners were left to come up with whatever they want. In this case, PowerColor has put together a very attractive looking card. It looks like a 92 millimeter fan with one, two, three, count them, four heat pipes coming out the top to spread the heat evenly throughout this fin arrangement, which we can actually see more clearly from this side. So check that out. So you got four heat pipes going across the core of the GPU, and then they come out here, here, here, and here for really good cooling. That's actually kind of a neat shot. You can see the structure of the heat sink there if you look down at it from that angle. So this is a PCI Express 16X card. All right. Now you got a lot enough angles there. Oh, I like this too. Check this out. Okay, most cards for the 5800 series have the VRM or the voltage regulator module cooling integrated into the same metal chunk that cools the RAM as well as the GPU. But you can see we've got a separate heat sink here, and I actually prefer that method because VRMs, they get hot, but they don't actually produce a lot of heat. So as long as you've got some incidental airflow and a separate, a nice well-secured, you can see they've got actually three pegs through this thing to make sure it stays nice and well attached heat sink, you can actually remove more heat that way. Can you see that pretty good? Awesome. Two PCI Express 16X connectors, and I don't like this. This is quite a long card actually, and you can see that these are coming out this side. So that means you have to account for an additional couple centimeters out the back of the card to make sure that it can fit in your case. I mean, as long as you've got a pretty good performance case that's nice and long, then you should be all right. Okay, RAM. So it has one gig of RAM, and you can see the RAM is actually not directly cooled, but it's all positioned underneath that 92 millimeter fan, so I wouldn't worry about that getting hot at all. At the top of the card, we find two crossfire fingers. Okay, remember when you're running two cards, it's actually, you can see better performance if you just use one crossfire bridge. And then at the back of the card, there's not a whole lot to talk about. The whole heat sink assembly is held on by four screws. Okay, four screws. Actually those are kind of funny. Oh, okay, there's slot screws. You can just use a slot screwdriver for that. Okay, never mind, nothing. Don't look at that. Okay, here we have DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI. So the old 5800 series cards usually had two DVIs right here and here, but you can just use DVI and HDMI to DVI cable or adapter. Remember, in terms of signal, they are identical. So there's no quality loss. There's nothing like that. And then DisplayPort, if you want to run a third monitor, you will need either a DisplayPort monitor or an active DisplayPort to DVI adapter. You can't just use a passive cable. And then they've actually got, I like this too, they've got actual slots here for the air to escape out of your case, even though based on the design of the cooler, I can tell you already that not all of the air will be directed in this direction. A lot of it will go here, a lot of it will go here, but at least we're exhausting some air. So I'm checking out my exhausting unboxing, speaking of exhausting, of the Radeon HD5830.