MSI HD 6950 Twin Frozr II 2 GB Review 30

MSI HD 6950 Twin Frozr II 2 GB Review

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The Card

Graphics Card Front
Graphics Card Back

MSI is using a custom version of the PCB and their own Twin Frozr II cooler that we have seen on a variety of cards from the company.

Graphics Card Height

HD 6950 requires two slots in your system.

Monitor Outputs, Display Connectors

The card has two DVI ports, two mini-DisplayPorts and one HDMI port. AMD's display output logic is clearly superior to what NVIDIA has to offer at this time. Vendors are free to combine six TMDS links into any output configuration they want (dual-link DVI consuming two links) - and use them all at the same time. AMD has also introduced DisplayPort 1.2 support with their new cards which allows the use of a DisplayPort hub to connect multiple monitors, or daisy chain them together.

An HDMI sound device is also included in the GPU. The HDMI interface is HDMI 1.4a compatible which includes Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, AC-3, DTS and up to 7.1 channel audio with 192 kHz / 24-bit output. The new revision also brings support for Blu-ray 3D movies which will become important later this year when we will see first Blu-ray 3D titles shipping.


You may combine up to four HD 6900 Series cards in CrossFire for increased performance or improved image quality settings.

Graphics Card Teardown PCB Front
Graphics Card Teardown PCB Back

Here are the front and the back of the card, high-res versions are also available (front, back). If you choose to use these images for voltmods etc, please include a link back to this site or let us post your article.
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