The card is a break form the normal opaque and ridiculously long IceQ cooler we are familiar with. Instead we get a smaller, black shroud with a centralised 80mm blue 'iTurbo' fan complete with chrome effect surround.


We see HIS have stuck with their trademark blue PCB to the rear of the card. While we are not averse to blue, we at Vortez believe a GPU PCB should either be black. Any colourisation, while individual, does not always fit with PC colour schemes and thus limits the attractiveness of the product, particularly to those who care about such things.


From the side we see the twin heat nickel plated heatpipes dominate the appearance. You may also notice that the shroud of the cooler protrudes somewhat which we thought very odd as it seems to make the card longer for no purpose.


the I/O area features a DVI port, HDMI and 2x Mini DisplayPort.


This card only requires a single 6 pin power plug capable of producing 75W with a PSU rated at 500W as a minimum. While these are HIS's recommendations, we feel this is perhaps very conservative with a 400W PSU likely to be ample to power both this card and a mid range PC.


Finally, we see the card has a single Crossfire tab meaning it can only be linked to one other card from the same AMD family.

Let's look in closer detail...