 Radeon! Everyone's been requesting this unboxing, the reality of it is I didn't have a card. So now I do. I have a Radeon 6790. This is a 1 gig graphics card from ATI or AMD if you would prefer. No, AMD. ATI if you prefer, although you'd be wrong. AMD is the correct one. So it's a 1 gig card. It includes XFX's 5 star support, which is world renowned at this point. It's a PCI Express 2.0 card. It has dual fans, which is probably the reason for the graphic that looks pretty sweet on the front of the box here. Let's see what else they've got to say for themselves. Supports AMD iFINITY, multi-display technology, AMD Crossfire X, multi-GPU technology, and AMD accelerated parallel processing technology. This is part of the AMD Vision Premium tier. So if you wanted to build an AMD Vision system, then this would be part of a premium. So you could go select a premium level processor, and you would end up with a reasonably well-balanced system. That's the whole idea of AMD Vision. It's a great idea. All right, we've got full DirectX 11 support, AMD iFINITY, which we mentioned before, PCI Express 2, which we mentioned before, 1080p full HD, which had bloody well better support, AMD HD 3D technology, which allows you to view 3D Blu-ray content, as well as play 3D games through your 3D ready television using the glasses from that provider. DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4a, which is required for 3D, 7.1 HD surround sound is built into this card, as well as GDDR5. What else do we got here? Pretty much it. Okay, let's open it up. I don't know if I showed you guys this yet, but I have a Hello Kitty key for my house now. I love it. I think it's awesome. Cameraman got it for me. There we are. I've always liked how XFX boxes look like a shoe box. Like it feels like I just bought shoes. Everyone likes shoes. I got new shoes today, actually, but they're badminton shoes, so I'm not wearing them right now. I'm actually just wearing my socks and sandals, which are a fashion atrocity, and I love it. Okay, pro series PSUs. So they've got a little catalog for some of their other products, which are good. Five-year warranty, something about five-star support. All of that's good stuff. North America limited warranty. Okay, so there's some fine print for you. Don't forget XFX's warranty is actually here. Hold on. Why don't we have a look at what they have to say for themselves here? What is covered by this limited hardware warranty? What is not covered? How does state law apply? What will XFX do? May I transfer? Ah! Maybe transfer to one owner after the original owner. Pretty sweet, huh? Most graphics card companies will not let you transfer your warranty. Okay. Cool. Next we have a quick install guide. Next we have a driver CD and installation guide. Don't use it. Okay. Finally we have one of these awesome... Oh, no, here's the driver CD. That was just the install guide. One of these awesome door hangers. Do not disturb. I'm gaming and like planes and stuff. Excellent. Everyone likes planes. Just put like planes on it and it's faster and better. More performance. Alright, so here's my shoes. I mean graphics card. Because the 6790 does not have a reference design, that means every 6790 you purchase, whether it's XFX or any other brand, will be a non-reference PCB. So what that means in XFX's cases, because they're awesome, is matte black PCB, which as you guys may or may not know by this time, I am a huge, huge fan of. So it's all matte black and awesome and looks great. And here's something I just noticed. So it looks like XFX does not want you to remove the cooler from this particular card. You can see there's little warranty void if removed stickers on two of the screws on the back. So you cannot remove that there heatsink without voiding that there warranty. So watch out for that guys. PCIe 2.0 connector on the bottom of the card and that pretty much does it for what I wanted to say there. Here you can see the design of the cooler a little bit. So we got three heat pipes embedded in the base and it looks like those are heat pipe direct touch heat pipes. So those should perform pretty darn well. We've also got a fairly Wow, opposite of dense. I'm like, I'm feeling dense right now because I can't remember what the word is for that. Sparse comes to mind, but that's not really, that's something I would use to describe the fins of a heatsink. Okay, well a fairly low resistance heatsink design, rather resistant to airflow. So the spacing between the fins is quite large, which means that these fans, although they're thin and are not going to be able to generate a ton of static pressure, should be able to push a decent amount of airflow through those and still remain quiet. Okay, so you can see that the heatsink is solid here where those heat pipes come through. That's where the GPU core is and then those heat pipes, which I showed you before, come up here from the top and are carrying the heat out to the fins where they can be directly cooled by these fans. Good stuff. We have two 6-pin power connectors. Although from what I understand on the 6790, it's fairly debatable whether it actually needs a second PCIe power connector. Either way, the card won't work unless you plug in both, but this is not a super power hungry card. So regardless of, you know, how many connectors there are on it, don't worry too much about it. You're not going to be like, you know, going crazy on your power bill just because you plug in a 6790. Here at the back, you can see there's very little restriction in terms of airflow. Oh, low restriction. I could have said that. Okay, very little restriction in terms of airflow for air coming out the front of the card. Alright, so this is an internal exhaust design. You can see that fairly clearly. You're going to kick a little bit of heat out here where the XFX logo is built into the PCI backplate at the back. But other than that, most of the exhaust is going to be in your case. As I said before, this is not going to kick out a ton of heat, so I wouldn't worry too much about installing this in your case. And oh, my CPU temps are going to go through the roof. No, I wouldn't worry too much about that. Here on the back of the card, we see our output connectors. So we've got two DVI, one HDMI, and two DisplayPort. That means this card supports up to four displays in iFINITY mode. So two via DVI or HDMI. So you can use these two, these two, or these two. And then two more via mini DisplayPort. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the XFX Radeon HD6790. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.