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The HIS HD7870 IceQ ships in a rather forgettable blue and white box. An image of the actual card would help sell the product.
The card is protected between thick foam on all corners.
The bundle includes literature on the card, a software disc, Crossfire connector and video adapter.
The card ships with a black plastic, oversized cooler with offset fan at the far edge. Heatpipes are visible at the top of the card. The PCB is blue.
The cooler overhangs the edge of the card by a couple of centimeters, which makes it slightly ungainly to handle.
The card takes power from two 6 pin PCI E power connectors. Due to the oversized cooler the cables can be difficult to remove as you have to prise your finger between the cooler and the clip.
The HD7870 IceQ Turbo is Crossfire capable in 2 way configurations only.
The card is a dual slot design with a single full sized DVI port and a single HDMI port with two mini DisplayPort connectors. It is Eyefinity capable. It can simultaneously output multiple, independent audio streams from the HDMI and mini Displayport connectors at the rear.
The cooler is held in place by the four GPU mounting screws. The heatsink is oversized so it can cool the memory as well. The cooler is comprised of four thick heatpipes which run into two separate rack of aluminum fins on either side of the base.
A basic overview of the hardware which we discussed earlier in the review. The Pitcairn GPU is manufactured on 28nm technology and this specific board features 32 ROPS and 2GB of GDDR5 memory which is connected via a 256 bit memory interface. The core clock is increased from 1,000mhz to 1,100mhz. The card has 1,280 shaders.
very nice, a little expensive for my wallet right now however.
The names ARE VERY confusing, turbo, then non turbo, the X versions. They need to work out better names for them all. as I thought OCUk were selling the plain turbo one, but its the non turbo one. The pricing is a little high too. some of the 7950’s are 299.
The turbo version (non X), that cooler is huge. I dont think it would cause a problem in a case, but it seems excessive. Performance is good.
Problem with HIS is availability, even in the UK. only OCUK seem to stock them and they often dont stock them all.
Niether of these are available. only way to get them is the competition you are running now. its not good.
They are like frankenstein coolers. even the nicer looking X version is almost their attempt at jewellery.
They need a new marketing guy who can promote them better to the western audience. even their box art is sh!te.
Nothing wrong with their cards. I bought one of their AMD cards a few years ago and its still working fine. most of them are made in the same factories as the bigger names like XFX etc.
Only issue is their visibility is dire. Only one store I know has them too. All the cool cards you guys review never get sold !
That X version looks great. bit concerned about the pricing, if the model, two down is £270?
This card is under £300 and its the next range up http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards+-+AMD/Radeon+HD+7950/VTX3D+Radeon+HD+7950+3072MB+GDDR5+PCI-Express+Graphics+Card+?productId=49716
People wont buy a 7870 when the 7950 is the same price.
DOnt use furmark, its not good. test temperatures with games. its more realistic