14 DAY TRIAL // Graphics card maker HIS continues to update its portfolio with new products based on the company's trademark IceQ X cooler and today announced two new Radeon HD 6770 solutions that are designed to deliver quieter operation and improved thermal performance.
Both of these cards share the same cooling solution and PCB design, but the Radeon HD 6770 IceQ X Turbo comes factory overclocked, while its smaller brother, the HIS 6770 IceQ X, strictly follows AMD reference frequencies.
The IceQ X cooler HIS installed on these cards uses two copper heatpipes in order to draw the heat away from the GPU and into an aluminum heatsink. This is then cooled by a 92mm fan, which also blows fresh air over the rest of the card's PCB.
HIS claims that, by using this cooling solution, the cards deliver better thermal and acoustic performance than other solutions in this class.
The Radeon HD 6770 is just a re-branded HD 5770 and is based on the same Juniper core that includes 800 stream processors, 40 texture units, 16 ROP units as well as a 128-bit wide memory bus that is connected to a 1GB video buffer.
The standard clocks of the cards, and those of the vanilla HIS 6770 IceQ X, are set at 850MHz for the core, while the memory is working at 1.200MHz (408GHz effective).
The second HIS graphics card, the factory overclocked Turbo version, has its core running at 880MHz, while the VRAM's frequency is set at 1250MHz (5GHz data rate).
HIS has decided to pair the Radeon HD 6770 IceQ X and IceQ X Turbo with two dual-link DVI, a DisplayPort and one HDMI video outputs.
Pricing for the vanilla HIS Radeon HD 6770 IceQ X hasn't been announced yet, but the factory overclocked IceQ X Turbo edition retails for $139.99.
