HIS Radeon HD 6950 IceQ Edition Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell November 4, 2011 Announcements, Graphics

Rating: 9.0.

There are no shortage of modified AMD HD6000 series cards currently available on the market, and today we are looking at the latest HD6950 from HIS, featuring the infamous semi transparent IceQ cooler. The HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ Edition is a custom design and based on past experiences we expect great things from the latest solution.

This HIS card is available via a special partner deal with Overclockers UK and retails for £221.99 inc vat.

The card is supplied with not one, but two excellent free games – Deus Ex Human Revolution and Dirt 3, worth £30 each.

HIS claim to have lifted the higher specification cooler from the HD6970 card which should lead to good results.

Features:-

Special IceQ Cooler taken from 6970 and custom fitted to 6950 by HIS for upto 18c better cooling
Great OC Potential
OcUK Exclusive
Core Clock: 800MHz
Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
Memory Clock: 5000MHz (Effective)
Processing Cores: 1408
Texture Units: 88
ROPS: 32
Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1
Display Connectors: 1 Dual Link DVI-I and 1 single link DVI-D, 1 HDMI & 2x Mini-DisplayPort
HDCP Capable
DirectX 11 Support
Shader Model 5.0 Support
OpenGL 4.0 Support
ATI CrossFire Ready
ATI Eyefinity Technology
ATI Avivo HD
ATI Stream Technology
ATI HD3D Technology
Maximum Power Consumption: 250W (Typical 190W)
2x 6pin PCI-E power connectors required (Power Adapters included in box for older PSU's)
450W minimum PSU recommended
Warranty: 2 Years

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9 comments

Frank
November 4, 2011 at 5:31 pm

Very nice, shame it looks like a fisher price toy …
Desperate Dan
November 4, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Ordering one, my friend has a IceQ card and I agree its basically silent.

Simple fact is, once it is shoved in a case you never see it again. its not that bad though. its different I like different
Dave
November 4, 2011 at 5:41 pm

wow quite surprised it was that good, my HD6950 hits 88c in furmark 🙁
Rufus
November 4, 2011 at 5:42 pm

Whats their UK warranty like. no info on it? do you return it to OCUK or not? they shafted me before with a motherboard and no one helped.
Lawrence
November 4, 2011 at 5:44 pm

It shows that a small fan isnt necessary bad. they have used massive heatpipes and a huge venting area to ensure it spins slowly. nice idea. shame they dont do a black cooler version. I have a case window mod with lights and this would look hideous in it. (all red lighting in my case)
l33t
November 5, 2011 at 12:02 pm

seems like a very good product indeed
Bruce
November 5, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Seems to be the best 6950 around. You didn’t point it out, but the fact that this is also a rear exhaust card makes it pretty amazing.

And I think some black paint might help it out a bit.