Thursday, September 29th 2011
HIS Intros HD 6970 IceQ Eyefinity RTS Graphics Card
HIS unveiled a new Radeon HD 6970 graphics card that makes use of its IceQ cooler design, which features what the company calls Eyefinity RTS (ready to see). Simply put, this card lets you set up 3-display Eyefinity without needing to connect any of the displays to the mini-DisplayPort connectors. The third display can be connected to the HDMI 1.4 port, instead.
The feature weeds out the need for hard-to-find mini-DP active dongles. An increasing number of full HD monitors support the HDMI interface, they naturally support DVI, and hence this card makes setting up a 3-display Eyefinity a lot easier, in essence, "ready" out of the box. That aside, the card sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 880 MHz core and 5.50 GHz memory, and features 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. Pricing and availability information is not known.
The feature weeds out the need for hard-to-find mini-DP active dongles. An increasing number of full HD monitors support the HDMI interface, they naturally support DVI, and hence this card makes setting up a 3-display Eyefinity a lot easier, in essence, "ready" out of the box. That aside, the card sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 880 MHz core and 5.50 GHz memory, and features 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. Pricing and availability information is not known.
24 Comments on HIS Intros HD 6970 IceQ Eyefinity RTS Graphics Card
Sapphire and HIS have done it and they are basically the same price, AMD made people mess with expensive adapters and confusion to enable eyefinity when it could have been avoided.
At Fry's I saw a PILE of them right next to the graphics cards. There had to be hundreds of them, and they were all on sale for like $15. I don't see how they are difficult to find, but the concept is neat.
The card looks like the old AMD cards with the red translucent coolers. It's a nice throwback style.
I could've sworn HIS already released this and the 6870( the one they did a few days ago0 earlier.:confused:
6870
6970
btw its nice if you have side windows
The shape is also a bit funky. I like the solid look and feel of the reference cards myself.
But what confuses me is why people think the plastic on this could look cheaper than any other colour plastic, surly it could only be called cheap by knowing they type of plastic and thickness otherwise how by looks alone could it be considered any cheaper than the plastic covers on every other graphics card?
It's just a frosted white colour to go with the iceq branding, if they called it black edition and used black plastic would it still look cheap?
older 4670:pimp:
Oh yeah BABY! :pimp:
HIS RADEON X800 XL IceQ II Turbo 256MB
so anyone has scratched this new cooler at pipes? is copper ?
Here's the old 3870
And yep, I do love the IceQ's, they look sexy under a black light.