The cooler was very easy to remove with just four spring loaded screws holding it in place. The cooler comprises of a aluminium finned array solder to a copper baseplate complete with
twin Heatpipes to assist in heat dissipation.


The PCB is a fairly standard affair with the memory chips framing the GPU core. Surprisingly, HIS have opted to position the VRM at the opposite end to the power port which may not be the most efficient place.


The VRM is a 4+1 affair and as the packaging promised, is made up from solid state chokes (3 x MOSfet each) and capacitors.


The memory is surprising in that it is produced by Elpida. With a product code of W1032BBBG 50-F we know this memory will require 1.455-1.5 VDD to operate correctly and is specified to run at 5.0 Gbps (effective).


Finally we reach the Pitcairn XT core. Based on 28nm technology it has a transistor count of 2.8 billion and is a trimmed down version of the range topping Tahiti core found on flagship HD7900 series cards.