HIS HD7870 IceQ Turbo and IceQ X Turbo X Review

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.

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