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HIS HD6870 ICEQX Turbo Graphics Card Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 22, 2011 Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics

For overclocking today, we used the excellent Sapphire tool – TriXX. This allowed us to push the card beyond reference specifications. Catalyst Control Center limits us to a maximum overclock of 1250mhz on the memory.

We weren't expecting much more via the core clock, with such a high ‘out of the box' overclock already applied. Reaching 1025mhz was pretty much as good as we would have hoped for. The memory delivered a healthy overclock to 1320mhz (5280mhz effective).

The additional manual overclock helps to boost frame rates slightly in Unigine, although the card is still significantly behind the overclocked MSI N560GTX TFII.

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12 comments

  1. Frank
    March 22, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    WOw that cooler melts my eye balls.

    Thank god you dont have to look at it all the time once its installed !

  2. Steven
    March 22, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    Hey, anyway we can petition them to make the cooler a different colour? that really is dire looking.

    but hey it works I ‘pose ! nice one.

  3. Dave
    March 22, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    Why have they a y shaped plate over the memory? whats that about?

  4. Muzz
    March 22, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    Bit of a contradiction that card. one of the best AMD 6870s and easily the ugliest.

    Those temperatures are great, especially for the new version of Furmark, which melts some cards. I am not sure I value furmark anymoer for temps, but I like the fact you include gaming results.

  5. Tim
    March 22, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    @ Dave. the metal plate is obviously for cooling, there are probably thermal pads under it. and then the fan above keeps it cooler and it takes the heat from teh chips.

  6. Garth
    March 23, 2011 at 8:18 am

    Nice card design and great performance. as the review says though the 560 is a tough card to beat at this price point.

  7. k0rn
    March 23, 2011 at 8:19 am

    Weird choice of colours for the cooler design. its very bright. looks like cheap plastic.

  8. Opotic
    March 23, 2011 at 8:19 am

    I still have concerns about HIS warranty in UK, ive read horror stories.

  9. Vinny
    March 23, 2011 at 8:20 am

    Wow, 975mhz core, thats insane for an out of the box setting. They must have a good batch for this release.

  10. John
    March 23, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Very good card from HIS. Its a make I never look at when buying a card, but this one looks like one of the best.

  11. Relayer
    March 23, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    the color isn’t for everyone, apparently. It’s a good match though for Gigabyte Mobo’s. Not that anyone should be buying a VC because of the color. Excluding case modders, possibly.

  12. Seawer
    August 27, 2011 at 3:37 pm

    Where can I buy this exact card? I recently read a review in PC Gamer magazine noting it at £149, but can’t find this model online anywhere!

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