HIS HD6970 IceQ Turbo Edition Review

The HIS HD6970 IceQ Turbo Edition is supplied in a long box with a rather bland design on the front. HIS are claiming -23c lower temperatures when compared against the reference design … bold claims, and more on this later.

Inside there is a manual, a Crossfire cable, a video converter and several power cables.

It isn't often we get a ‘jaw dropping' moment at Kitguru, but when this card was unboxed I was speechless. We were prepared for a radical ICEQ cooler design, but this is without a doubt their most dramatic yet. The cooler shroud is see through plastic with a large blue fan positioned to the right, angled slightly above the height of the PCB. This HIS card demands a six pin and an eight pin power connector for operation. It also supports 2, 3 and 4 way Crossfire configurations.

Four thick heatpipes aid with cooling, but we will look closer at this when we disassemble the card.

The HIS HD6970 ICEQ Turbo Edition has a dualDVI, 2 mini displayport and an HDMI port output configuration.

The cooler is a substantial design with a copper block leading out to four thick copper heatpipes and into two rack of aluminum fins on either side. The engineering quality is high throughout.

An overview of the hardware in GPUz.

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