14 DAY TRIAL // By now, we are all accustomed with seeing HIS' custom designed IceQ cooling solutions being employed in mid-range and high-end graphics cards, but the company has recently decided to use this cooler also in its low-end GPUs and released the Radeon HD 6570 IceQ.
At a first glance, HIS' latest creation doesn't differ too much from all the other IceQ graphics cards in the company's lineup, as its uses the same bluish plastic shroud and a turbine fan placed at the rear of the PCB.
On a closer inspection however, one gets to see that the Radeon HD 6570 IceQ doesn't actually relies on heatpipes from drawing the heat away from the GPU, but settles for a direct contact aluminum heatsink.
While this approach isn't as effective as the heatpipes design used by its older brothers, the low power consumption of the Turks core used in the HD 6570 should go pretty well with such a cooling solution.
Furthermore, HIS chose not to increase the operating speed of the GPU over AMD's recommended settings, so the 650MHz core shouldn't dissipate so much heat even when running at full speed.
As far as the 1GB of video memory is concerned, this is clocked a bit lower than AMD's reference design (800MHz vs 1GHz), and HIS also decided to go with the cheaper DDR3 memory chips that run slower than the GDDR5 recommended by AMD.
The rest of the Radeon HD 6570 IceQ specs are nothing out of the ordinary as the graphics card features the usual VGA, DVI and HDMI video outputs.
The Radeon HD 6570 IceQ is available in the retail market as we speak, with pricing set at $74.99, which translates roughly into 57 Euros.
AMD's Radeon HD 6570 is based on the Turks graphics core, which includes 480 streaming processors, 24 texture units, 8 ROP units and a 128-bit wide memory bus. (via TCMagazine)
