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The Club3D HD7870 Royal King 2GB Graphics Card ships in a small rather inoffensive box featuring the product name on the front with a playing card style ‘K' taking a central position.
The bundle is quite extensive, featuring literature on the card and a ‘do not disturb' door sign. There is also a software disc and Crossfire connector. Club3D have also included a full colour guide on how to install the new graphics card into the system.
The Club3D HD7870 Royal King is a tiny little card, and the cooler is neatly shaped to the exact dimensions of the red PCB underneath. The cooler is primarily plastic, with the single fan positioned centrally.
Thick heatpipes are visible underneath the main black plastic cooling shroud. We will take a closer look at the cooler shortly.
The card is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration. It demands power from two six pin PCI E power connectors.
The Club3D HD7870 Royal King features two DVI ports, a full sized HDMI port and two mini DisplayPorts. It is Eyefinity capable.
The cooler is slightly disappointing, not only is it a single fan implementation, but there are only two copper heatpipes running through an aluminum base. These heatpipes run into two separate racks of aluminum fins. The company are using high grade Hynix memory which should translate to a decent overclock later in the review.
A Pitcairn GPU built on the 28nm manufacturing process. The card runs 50mhz higher than the reference model, at 1,050mhz. The memory runs at 1,200mhz (4.8Gbps effective). It features 32 ROPs, 1280 shaders and the 2GB of GDDR5 memory is connected via a 256 bit memory interface.
Its a problem when sapphire are constantly pushing new boundaries with their coolers.
I could tell on the first page that the cooler wasnt going to be good. It might work on the hD7850 as its much cooler running.
Its a nice looking little card actually, very neat and the size of the actual PCB.
Sadly that cooler is never going to work, lok at the size of the aluminum heatsink, its much too small for a start. its more suited to a HD7770.
Never seen their cards for sale here anyway, first ive read about them, ever.
The cooler does look almost identical to the HD7770 model, I doubt its any different http://www.club-3d.com/index.php/products/reader.en/product/radeon-hd-7770-ghz-edition.html
its how companies save money between ranges, but it normally works from a higher spec model to a lower spec model, not the other way around
Avoid this card at all costs, I had the royalqueen version and it was so loud I couldnt live with it. I had it returned and got an XFX card, it was so quiet and about 15c cooler.
this info about graphics card is very completly,,tank,s