HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB video card review @ Elite Bastards

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Hi everyone,

 

I hope you all had a good weekend. With the competition between AMD's Radeon HD 4870 1GB and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260 really hotting up over recent months, there's plenty of incentive to AIB partners to create a product based around these parts that will stand out from the crowd. Enter HIS' Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB, which sports a UV-sensitive custom cooling solution and factory overclocks to try and tempt you to part with your hard-earned cash.

 

 

HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB video card review

 

"Compared to those reference clock speeds, HIS have chosen to up both core and memory clocks on the IceQ 4+ Turbo. The board's RV770 core gets a very modest rise of just 20MHz to leave us with a core clock speed of 770MHz, while the board's GDDR5 memory gets more attention lavished upon it, increasing the clock speed from 900MHz to 1GHz, giving us an effective speed of 4GHz considering the properties of GDDR5 memory.

 

This being HIS, this board also does away with the reference cooler, in favour of a dual-slot, heatpipe based offering which is also UV sensitive, meaning that it'll glow a shade of blue if you put any UV lights close enough to it in your chassis."

 

http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=661&Itemid=27

 

 

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Hanners

Elite Bastards

 

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