Wednesday, August 17th 2016

HIS Announces the Radeon RX 480 IceQ X² Roaring

HIS announced its flagship Radeon RX 480 graphics card, the RX 480 IceQ X² Roaring 8 GB OC. Based on a slightly modified variant of its dual-fan IceQ X² cooling solution in use for the past few generations of its graphics cards; the card features a custom-design PCB. The cooler features a dense aluminium fin-stack heatsink, to which heat drawn from the GPU is conveyed by four 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes.

The heatsink is ventilated by a pair of 90 mm fans. These fans stay off when the GPU is idling. The metal cooler shroud features a die-cast ornament shaped like a roaring lion, an LED-lit HIS logo along the top, and a back-plate that covers the length of the PCB. The PCB itself features a 6-phase VRM that draws power from an 8-pin PCIe power connector, to support factory-overclocked speeds of 1120 MHz core, 1288 MHz boost, and an untouched 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory.
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14 Comments on HIS Announces the Radeon RX 480 IceQ X² Roaring

#1
ZoneDymo
oldschool and sexy as far as Im concerned
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#2
ZeppMan217
Old school dumpster maybe. That shroud is ugly.
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#4
Sempron Guy
iceQs use to be what RGB's are now, back in the day.
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#5
Bansaku
" The PCB itself features a 6-phase VRM that draws power from an 8-pin PCIe power connector "

I knew if anyone would do this, it would be HIS. Fantastic!!! I have been holding off upgrading my dual HIS HD7950 specifically for this. To bad the shrouds don't look like the previous trend; Me thinks they be butt ugly!

:toast:
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#8
$ReaPeR$
marketing departments are getting crazier by the day..
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#9
rtwjunkie
PC Gaming Enthusiast
Well, other than the name, which implies it is LOUD, this is basically the same cooler design they have used for several years now. It is effective, although not particularly quiet.
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#10
R00kie
I guess they have finally parted ways with the blue PCB's they've been sticking on everything...
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#11
Ruru
S.T.A.R.S.
rtwjunkieWell, other than the name, which implies it is LOUD, this is basically the same cooler design they have used for several years now. It is effective, although not particularly quiet.
Well let's wait for the "Purrrr" quiet edition. :laugh:
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#12
KainXS
maybe it will be cheaper to compensate for those looks.
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#13
buildzoid
Bansaku" The PCB itself features a 6-phase VRM that draws power from an 8-pin PCIe power connector "

I knew if anyone would do this, it would be HIS. Fantastic!!! I have been holding off upgrading my dual HIS HD7950 specifically for this. To bad the shrouds don't look like the previous trend; Me thinks they be butt ugly!

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So far almost all the RX 480s do this. They put all 6 Vcore phases on the 8 pin. Mem AUX and .95 get put on the PCI-e slot. Also so far all the 480s have 6 phases Vcore and 1 phase for me and 1 phase for aux even the ref cards.
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#14
Athlonite
Still using the same shitty fans I see I bet they don't last much more than a year tops before becoming noisy as shit and then you find out you can't re-lube them as they're a sealed unit
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