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The HIS HD7870 IceQ Turbo X box is smaller than the lower clocked card on the previous pages. It uses the same bland artwork however.
The card is protected within a thick padding of foam.
The bundle includes literature on the product, a software disc, Crossfire cable, video converter and a ‘weight lifter'.
We have looked at the weight lifter accessory with other HIS cards. It is designed to support the card in the case, removing the weight from the socket completely. I do feel this is a gimmick as there is absolutely no need for a weight supporting device with such a light card. Still, it is better than including a free, old game which many people will already own.
The HIS HD7870 IceQ Turbo X is exactly how we would imagine Victoria Beckham would design a video card. The large central fan is surrounded by a very shiny ‘jewel' like surround. The rest of the cooler is black. The PCB is blue.
Four thick heatpipes are visible from a top down view.
The card takes power from two 6 pin PCI E ports. The cooler is flush to the PCB with this design.
The HIS HD7870 IceQ Turbo X is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration 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 different on this card, with the larger fan centrally placed, directly above the copper base. There are four thick heatpipes which separate into pairs, feeding into two rack of aluminum fins.
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 and the memory also receives a clock boost from 1,200mhz (4.8Gbps effective) to 1,250mhz (5.0Gbps). The card has 1,280 shaders.
