HIS 7850 IceQ Turbo 2GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2013-05-27

Looking for a video card that can run most games at high details(up to Full HD Resolution), features massive overclocking from the factory and also sports a quiet and efficient cooling system? Then the 7850 IceQ Turbo 2GB GDDR5 might be quite the right choice, for a price that should not exceed 200 Euros.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

Quick Product Introduction:

 

Back in 2012, AMD has launched the 7800 (Pitcairn) series, to be more exact on 5th of March. Here we can find the Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon HD 7870 GPUs, which are meant to fill the mainstream to high-end segment, at a good sale price. While the Radeon HD 7870 features 1280 stream cores, the Radeon HD 7850 comes with 1024 stream cores. While the first card variants have arrived with only 1GB of GDDR5 memory, the latest versions all come with at least 2GB on a 256-bit interface.

 

The Radeon HD 7850 GPU of the card we will review in this article has been manufactured with TSMC’s 28nm process and is overclocked quite high from the factory to 1000MHz, from the original 860MHz of the AMD reference board.

 

But let’s get on with the packaging. The HIS 7850 IceQ Turbo card is shipped in a box which is noticeably bigger compared with the 7790 variant we have reviewed a while back, but the main features remain. On the front and back sides we will find icons of the supported technologies and main features, along with some in-detail explanations:

 

 

 

 

 

On one of the box sides, we will find the recommended system specifications that we must follow before purchasing the card:

 

 

 

On the opposite area, we will find see some of the benefits of product registration, along with a small list of box contents:

 

 

 

By removing the top packaging layer, we will find inside a secondary black cardboard box, with a HIS loco on top:

 

 

 

After we lifted the top cover, we were greeted by a small leaflet with fitting instructions:

 

 

 

The card is fully surrounded by a foam protective mold, so it won’t move during transport:

 

 

 

On the bottom layer of the box we get to find the accessories:

 

 

 

Let’s enumerate what we have found here:

 

-DVI to VGA adapter

-CrossFire Bridge

-HIS Envelope, which contains a pressed DVD with drivers, the Installation Manual, but also a small HIS sticker

 

 

 

 

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