HIS Releases Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+

Amidst lot of speculation concerning its possibility, HIS indeed has an IceQ4+ model graphics card based on the ATI Radeon HD 4870. It uses the iconic IceQ4+ cooler, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. The card is overclocked out of the box, with the core clocked at 770 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (effectively 2 GHz DDR or 4000 MT/s). The card uses a blue-coloured AMD reference PCB (includes the AMD brand mark on the PCB), with an identical layout of components as that on the reference design cards.

The advantage however, lies in its cooler. The card supports ATI CrossFireX, and sports two dual-link DVI ports for output. It requires two 6 pin PCI-Express power connectors. There are two basic sub-variants: IceQ4+ Turbo 512MB and IceQ4+ Turbo 1GB. The 512 MB model has a higher core clock speed at 780 MHz. The non-Turbo sub-variants use reference AMD clock speeds.



Pricing is as follows:

* HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ 512MB PCIe – 239,00 €
* HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ TURBO 512MB PCIe – 249,00 €
* HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ 1 GB PCIe – 259,00 €
* HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ TURBO 1 GB PCIe – 279,00 €

HIS also announced its availability through retail channels.