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HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell June 3, 2010 Featured Announcement, Graphics

Overclocking the cards properly mean we need to look elsewhere for software and although ATI supply Overdrive within the driver it does not always allow us to crank the card to the maximum speeds we can achieve. We used the combination of MSI Afterburner and AMD GPU Clock tool which means we can enhance both clock speeds and increase the fan speeds of the card.

We were very pleased to see decent headroom from the HIS card – an increase of 105mhz on the core with memory now running at an effective 5600mhz. With this overclock it is important to check temperatures – we retested by running Crysis Warhead at Enthusiast settings for 30 minutes.

Temperatures rose by 8c under load which is not bad considering the overclocked speeds.

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14 comments

  1. Glenn
    June 3, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    HD5870 is a great card and I like the look of this one. cooler is a bit ugly I think but its nice to see improved/higher fan speeds for cooler temps.

  2. Death Dealer
    June 3, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    I never really notice fan noise, unless its wild helicopter style noise. This looks like a good buy. I never see them in america tho, not in stores anyway

  3. Stefan
    June 3, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    Sapphire model is better but it costs more. which I would say would be pretty obvious

  4. Derek
    June 3, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    Well I like being proved wrong, I had assumed HIS was a POS, but this review has certainly changed my view.

  5. Bret
    June 3, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    mega OC on that. weird they only overclock it a little out of the factory. its hardly ‘turbo’ more ‘shoved a little’

  6. Joseph
    June 3, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    Glad to see you mentioning the hardly overclocked speeds. I dont know why they launch these as TURBO editions when its hardly even overclocked in the least, which is shown on the graphs. So much headroom and I think a small portion of the audience will even know how much they can get out of it. ID have gave it 3 out of 5 just for that point. TURBO should be TURBO.

  7. Eric K
    June 3, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Well I was expecting good temps, but more noise over reference? surely thats not right

  8. frank
    June 3, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    nice review, very thorough, thanks.

  9. Cyril
    June 3, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    Excellent, I like that card a lot. I prefer cooler to quieter.

  10. Francois
    June 3, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    I would probably still opt for Sapphire, they just seem a better company

  11. Bob
    June 3, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    I would probably still opt for Sapphire, they just seem a better company

  12. glenn
    June 3, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    I just ordered one of these and got a bit of a bargain, 50 off retail price 🙂

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