bit-tech News: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo

news · January 19, 2009

Hi all,

We have just published a review of the *HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB

IceQ4+ Turbo* graphics card - if you could post a link on your site that

would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*

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*Quote:

*/We had high hopes for the HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo, but

sadly they haven't been fulfilled. Typically, HIS goes out of its way to

spice up AMD's ATI Radeon graphics cards with an improved cooling

solution, higher clock speeds and a few innovations added in for good

measure. While we've got some of that here, the one thing we haven't got

is a new cooling solution -- instead, it's a refinement of the reference

cooler.

What makes it worse is the fact that the refinements made appear to be

for the worse -- at least, where noise is concerned. HIS has essentially

redesigned the fan shroud to expose the heatpipes to the elements and

introduced a slightly different fan with fewer blades. In order to

improve cooling performance, the fan speed has been raised and to such

an extent that it's quite noisy (but not offensively so) when the card

is idling -- that's not something we really appreciate.

Disappointingly, the core clock speed hasn't been increased by anything

more than a token amount and the result is that the real-world

performance benefits are generally fairly limited. The memory clocks are

impressive -- there's no doubt about that -- but we would have hoped the

core speed overclock would have at least come close to matching that./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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