Tuesday, February 1st 2011
HIS Extends IceQ X Series to Radeon HD 6870, Intros Highly Overclocked Turbo-X Model
After the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti, AMD made it easier for partners to release overclocked and custom-design Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards. Partners seem to be responding to this. HIS released two new custom-design Radeon HD 6870 graphics card models, based on the Barts IceQ X board design the company implemented on its HD 6850 IceQ X series. Like with the HD 6850, there's the base model that sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 900/1050 MHz (core/memory), and a Turbo-X model that uses overclocked speeds of 975/1150 MHz. The "X" in Turbo-X denotes that it's faster than the Turbo model based on AMD's reference design board, by HIS. The cooler makes use of a slightly large aluminum fin array to which heat is conveyed by 8 mm thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes, which is centrally ventilated by a 92 mm fan. The cooler is covered by a frosty-looking shroud. Like with every other HD 6870, the card features 1120 stream processors, and connects to 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. HIS did not give out pricing details.
16 Comments on HIS Extends IceQ X Series to Radeon HD 6870, Intros Highly Overclocked Turbo-X Model
Color is very pale...they could use more bright :D
and they could raise up core clock to 1 GHz...
That's what I would do if I ran a chip company :laugh:
Once I get a better cooler, hello 1ghz 24/7.
.Artic Cooling Silencer Series is or was clear ,not sure if they can still be had , i've modded a couple of 5770 ,with a pair design for nvidia 5950,from the clearance bin at memory express.dremmel and a soldering iron an you are set,drill an taps are handy also, turned out sweet.both now match as they had different Hsf stock,they were recertified from clearance bin also,lol,I've had a couple earlier model radeon 1650 pro with iceq turbo coolers were nicer than these the takin inside air an blowin outside still makes sence to me.