| HIS Radeon HD6870 IceQ-X Turbo-X Video Card |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards | |
| Written by Steven Iglesias-Hearst | |
| Thursday, 02 June 2011 | |
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HIS HD6870 IceQ X Turbo X Video Card
Manufacturer: Hightech Information System Limited Full Disclosure: The product sample used in this article has been provided by HIS. HIS first introduced its IceQ coolers in 2003 to its Radeon 9800PRO series of video cards, eight years later HIS return with the IceQ X cooler, which performs better than it looks. In this review the IceQ X cooler is strapped onto a HIS HD6870 Turbo X video card which comes factory overclocked at 975MHz GPU and 1150MHz Memory. Pushing clocks this far on a factory overclocked video card takes some guts, but HIS know that they have nothing to worry about, their IceQ cooler is up to the job. While the IceQ cooler is more than capable of taming the HD6870 GPU, HIS were not very aggressive with the default fan profile and this resulted in a couple of unexpected shutdowns during our test procedures. Thankfully MSI Afterburner was at hand to allow me to alter the fan profile making sure that the temperatures always stayed in check, a topic I discuss further in the temperatures section of this review. Benchmark Reviews aims to provide you with an unbiased review of the HIS HD6870 IceQ X Turbo X and report back our findings, keeping you informed on the latest technologies available on the market today.
For this review we have a wide range of video card comparisons in our usual mixture of DX10 / DX11 synthetic benchmarks and current games to get a good idea where it fits in performance and price wise. We also intend to overclock the GPU to its limits and see if the IceQ X cooler really has what it takes to cool the GPU and other components effectively, so without further delay let's move on and get stuck in.
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Comments
All I know is that they are pretty damn good right now, noise and cooling wise.
bore bang for the buck .The color blue very pleasing to the eye and a 90mm fan heat sinks for cooling really doing a job that others leave to water cooling .. overall I would purchace this card ..
Just a note: had some pages of the review refused to load/display. Skipped ahead, or went back, restarted the browser. Didn't solve the problem. Couple of pages just plain missing?
Thanks everyone for the positive remarks.
My real question is does the 6950 version of this card have the same Fan profile issue as this card, 6870? I also took out of the review that this issue it not much of an issue. If I raise the fan speed will everything be fine?
Thanks.
Thanks.
The Hackintosh is stable...I'm still running the same hardware configuration I wrote about in the original article. I've been very happy with it and the only bump in the road was a system software update that killed the sound; a KEXT patch brought that back.
I plan to migrate the Hackintosh to the Sandy Bridge platform sometime this summer and will have a new article when that's ready.
Thank you for a deep review. The card looks neat, and it's pretty good performance-wise.
Lower temps not only give space for overclocking, but also helps hardware live longer.
Fan issue doesn't look good... oh well it's fixable.
But the main reason I want this card is that it's quiter than other models with similar performance.
54-56db instead of 69-74 of Nvidia 560Ti/480. Impressive.
I'm building a rig with the following configuration:
AM3 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BOX BLACK EDITION (amd)
DDR3 4096M 1333 Mhz Kingston Original (KVR1333D3N9/4G/KVR1333D3N9/4G-SPBK) - 2 pieces
HDD:500.0g 7200 Serial ATA III WD 16MB Caviar Blue (WD5000AAK?)
S-AM3: Asus M4A88T-V EVO/USB3.
PCIeX: ATI HD6870 HIS IceQ X Turbo 1024MB/256bit/GDDR5/2xDVI/HDMI/2xMini DP (975/4600) (H687QNT1G2M)
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus (RR-B10-212P-GP)
Sony Optiarc LightScribe, Black, SATA (AD-7261S-0B)
Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus (RC-912P-KKN1)
ANTEC High Current Gamer HCG-620EC 620W v.2.3,Fan135mm, aPFC, 80+Bronze, SLI, Retail
All for less than 800 dollars!
Way to go ATI!
Warm greetings from Russia.
I have got 3 displays that I want to use with Eyefinity to play games like Bad Company 2 over 3 diplays to get a wider view. The problem is that my current graphics card does not support more than 2 displays. So my question is, does the IceQ X Turbo X support 3 displays? If it does, i'm probably going to buy one soon!
BTW very nice and thorough review!
Regards from Norway
Never tried to use more than 2, but I have no reason not to believe the specs from HIS site.
Don?t choose between play and work. Let up to 4 displays help you enjoy games, movies and the web at the same time.
##hisdigital.com/un/product2-593.shtml
Because of that I would like to know for sure that it supports three or four displays...
1x DVI or HDMI monitor connected to the DVI or HDMI port
1x DVI monitor connected to a DVI port
1x ACTIVE displayport to DVI adaptered monitor.
source: ##overclock.net/amd-ati/869715-radeon-6870-multiple-monitor-issues.html
I've just installed this card and found that it shuts down as mentioned.
I have tried the fix using afterburner that was suggested and F12010 crashes very quickly. The game runs on my computer with a previous graphics card installed
Has there been a permanent resolution to the fan issue?
Thanks in advance,
Egil