HIS in the mean time have their own low profile suite with the recent review; we are going to look at also at the 4870 Ice Q 4+ graphics, for this top of the line over-clocker’s card with sporting a newer reference like cooler that has a neat little feature when you over look it in over a UV sensitive light you can see the cooler glow, good for those who have the special light but you would better of having a LED fan included on this is it can radiate a self lighting suite, but great to change the lighting feature.
The IceQ4+ turbo is a 4870 in HIS terms being pumped more power in each data travelling in its silicone veins the RV700 being clocked in the ordinary HIS 4870 only at 780 MHz and somehow went down to the IceQ4+ turbo, with only 770 MHz core frequency but the cooler can serious handle the specs of the ordinary 4870 but we have seen that the 4870 IceQ series have been tweaked most of the time for the individual users interests so keeping the core clock low is the high priority for HIS to give more head room for users to over-clock, but the memory is in the different league with the memory core clock going at 4000MHz effective is a hot thing to ask for the cooler when the cooler has some problem touching the memory chips and cool them effectively. While the graphics card cooler block still has a mixed use of copper heat-pipes and also aluminum fins and blown out by the fan. But for the card overall looks nice for a good performance card but with the sight of the price margin form the real Cray enthusiast from the high-performers. This combined with the stunning look and performance of the IceQ4+ cooler that kept the GPU temperatures well under 60°C at all times and noise levels to little more than a whisper certainly makes the card worth every penny.
While performance looks good with high 50fsp scores in Far cry 2 and also Fallout3 in medium resolution and in high detail, but in Crysis is the real benchmark to look with just going 30fps in Crysis in the highest detail and high res and over clocking a little bit gave it an edge to any other 4870 in the test just going faster than the OEM variant of the 4870 but still being beaten by most GTX285 chipsets. Overall the card looks neat as a good design layout may interest UV light users in their case or users who have the X58 extreme board like the colour combination of the graphics and the motherboard.
