3DGameMan Crossfire Video Review - Winning the 100% Kickass Award

 

Best Performance in Stalker Clear Sky Gaming environment - TechPowerUp

Winning the Elite Performance Award from Elitebastards.com

" All I can tell you is that HIS' Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo packs enough performance to outstrip a reference GeForce GTX 260......I know I've said it before, but 1920x1200 with 8x multi-sampling is where it's at for me right now, and HIS provides that luxurious configuration in the majority of situations. " - Elitebastards Review

Winning the Hardwarezone's Four Stars Best of the Best Award from Hardwarezone Singapore

" The HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo, with its new and improved IceQ 4+ cooler also performed admirably. It recorded 61 degrees Celsius, making it the coolest card here and among the Radeon HD 4870 group in particular......All things considered, this is a solid card and is easily one of the better Radeon HD 4870 cards that we have tested. It provides a marked increase in performance, and manages to significantly reduce operating temperatures. "

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The return of The Legend - IceQ 4+ Cooling Technology!

 

HIS IceQ 4+ is the revision of the 4th generation of IceQ cooling technology, which is endorsed by the media worldwide. Thanks to the newly designed dual heatpipes and heatsinks, the cooling capacity is increase by up to 60%! Thicker spreader and heatpipes are used to allow a more even heat distribution among the fins. Spreader is the metal base of the heatsink. In IceQ4+, 8 mm instead of 6 mm diameter heatpipes are used to enhance thermal transfer efficiency.

HIS IceQ 4 effectively dissipate the heat from the GPU, thus enabling it for high levels of performance. It cools down the GPU temperature dramatically when compare with the reference cooler, allow you to maximize your overclocking potential. What's more? The ultra silent and durable fan delivers ultra-quiet and stable gaming environment for enthusiast gamer.

Heat transfers rapidly out of GPU and reduces temperature faster.	Cool down the droom to overclock and run chip faster; provides more headroom to overclock and run faster.	Operates with lower noise level than original cooler.

1. Efficient transfer of heat outside of computer case
   Cool air is drawn from both sides of the fan and hot air is forced out of the computer case. This ensures effective cooling when there is another card in front blocking the fan inlet, such as in CrossFire setup
2. Crossfire Advantage
   Ensure you can conveniently connect the CrossFire cable to run a CrossFire setup.
3. Silent and durable fan
   Significantly reduce noise level and extend service life
4. Isolated heatsinks
   memory and GPU heatsinks are completely separated, preventing any heat transfer from GPU to memory. Memory heatsink is actively cooled by air stream from main cooler.

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Faster

Turbo-charge your gaming environment
HIS take an already great product and make it better. The IceQ Turbo models are bios-overclocked out of the box. For the TurboX models we push the core clock even further to its limit, deliver the ultimate gaming experience!

Turbo - You can benefit by a manufacture pre-overclock graphics card with the balance of the best performance and cooling effect.

Heat transfers rapidly out of GPU and reduces temperature faster
In order to improve the power capacity, we have changed from simple extrusion heatsink to stacked fins with bigger surface area to improve the heat transfer efficiency significantly. Thicker spreader and heatpipes are also used to allow a more even heat distribution among the fins. Spreader is the metal base of the heatsink.

 

IceQ 4 - Dual Heatpipes (6mm diameter)	IceQ 4+ - Dual Heatpipes (8mm diameter) Redesigned layout with thicker heatpipe and increase the cooling performance by up to 60%!

 

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Cooler - Efficient transfer of heat outside of computer case:

Cool air is drawn from both sides of the fan and hot air is forced out of the computer case. This ensures effective cooling when there is another card in front blocking the fan inlet, such as in CrossFire setup. Memory and GPU heatsinks are completely separated, preventing any heat transfer from GPU to memory. Memory heatsink is actively cooled by air stream from main cooler.In IceQ 4+, the memory and VRM components are directly cooled by a metal base plate.

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Crossfire Advantage:

Cooling Performance - IceQ 4+ vs Single Slot Cooler

By expelling the hot air, IceQ 4 removes all the heat generated by the GPU out of the computer chassis, prevents the hot air from accumulating inside and enhancing the overall stability. The more crowded the chassis, the greater will be the impact.

 

Single Card Setup	Crossfire Modle Setup

 

The demonstration shows that the IceQ 4+ does outperform the 3rd party cooler in closed environment. Cool air is drawn from both sides of the fan and hot air is forced out of the computer case. This ensures effective cooling when there is another card in front blocking the fan inlet, such as in CrossFire setup.

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Quieter - Significantly reduce noise level and extend service life

Even through the cooling capacity is increase by up to 60% when compare with IceQ 4 Cooler, the noise level is still supress to the minimum, nearly half of the sound level when compare with AMD reference cooler!

 

 

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HIS IceQ is also UV sensitive, enhancing the gamers' UV light case

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Comparsion

 

Model	Cooling Capacity	Heatpipe	Heatsink Surface Area	Noise Level	UV Effect	Cooler Performance
	-	-	-
	10%	-	15%
	30%	Single Heatpipe	60%
	67%	Dual Heatpipes	130%
	167%	Thicker (8mm) Dual Heatpipes	130%

 

 

Overview

• IceQ 4 Cooling Technology
  • Faster, Cooler, Quieter, Crossfire Advantage, UV Sensitive
• Powered by Radeon® HD 4870 GPU
• 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
• 800 stream processing units
• DirectX® 10.1
• 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
• ATI CrossFireX^TM multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
• Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
• Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
  • The HIS DVI to HDMI Adapter for ATI 4000/ 3000 series (Product Code: HHDMI4071) is required to fully utilize the audio through HDMI features
• PCI Express® 2.0 support

HIS PRODUCTS ADVANTAGE

• HIS delivers Faster, Cooler, Quieter plus the best quality product!
• Professional customer service and technical support

ACCESSORIES

SOFTWARE BUNDLED Driver CD

CABLE/ADAPTOR BUNDLED ATI CrossFireXTM Bridge Interconnect DVI to HDMI adapter DVI to VGA adapter Power Cable 2x 4pin in, 6 pin out

Model Name	HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo (Full HD 1080p) HDMI 1GB (256bit) GDDR5 Dual DL-DVI & TV (HDCP) PCIe (RoHS)
Chipset	Radeon HD 4800 PCIe Series
ASIC	RadeonTM HD 4870 GPU
Pixel Pipelines	800 stream processing units* (Unified)
Vertex Engines	800 stream processing units* (Unified)
Manu. Process (Micron)	55nm
Transistor	956 million
Memory Size (MB)	1024
Memory Type	GDDR5
RAMDAC (MHz)	400
Engine CLK (MHz)	770
Memory CLK (MHz)	4000
Memory Interface (bit)	256
Max. Resolution	1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)
Bus Interface	PCI Express x16
Power Supply Requirement	500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
VGA	No
2nd VGA	No
DVI	Yes
2nd DVI	Yes
TV-out	Yes
HDTV (YPrPb component output)	No

ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 System Requirements

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
• Minimum 1GB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
• For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card are required

For more information, please visit the following link:
http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonhd4800/specs1.html

 

 

Redefine HD Gaming

The ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series GPUs deliver a cinematic gaming experience with unprecedented performance. The powerful new TeraScale graphics will propel you deep into your gameplay with seamless frame rates and high resolutions. Enhanced anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering create striking graphics with unparalleled realism so you can max out the settings of the most demanding next-generation games or revitalize your favorite titles. Play today while preparing for tomorrow with tessellation, support for DirectX® 10.1 and scalable ATI CrossFireX^TM technology.

ATI Avivo^TM HD Technology

ATI Avivo^TM HD is the advanced image and video processing and display technology found in ATI Radeon^TM HD GPUs and ATI Theater^TM video capture processors. Specifically designed for HDTV and HD video enthusiasts, ATI Avivo HD provides brilliant colors, sharp images, smooth playback of Blu-ray^TM* and HD video content, HDMI with built-in multi-channel digital audio, and on some GPUs, Unified Video Decoding (UVD). UVD is designed to enable a cool and quiet media PC with low CPU power requirements and playback of HD 1080p content. HD Monitor is required for full 1080p enjoyment.

* The HIS DVI to HDMI Adapter for ATI 4000/ 3000 series is required to fully utilize the audio through HDMI features

HDMI Video and Audio

A system with an ATI Radeon^TM HD 4800 Series graphics card can help enhance the HD entertainment experience by providing a seamless connection to an HDTV or home theater system. With built-in 7.1 surround sound audio (AC3 / DTS ), the new GPUs and graphics cards support single cable connection directly to a compatible HDTV, projector or receiver. This single cable carries both the HD video and 8 channel audio for a clean, high definition connection. Some graphics cards will be equipped with an HDMI connector, while others will output the HDMI signal using a special ATI Radeon DVI-I to HDMI adapter. These options give consumers more options and flexibility when connecting their PCs to monitors or home theaters for maximum enjoyment of HD content. The new GPU also supports xvYCC color which can display a wider range of color when connected to capable HDTVs.

* The HIS DVI to HDMI Adapter for ATI 4000/ 3000 series (Product Code: HHDMI4071) is required to fully utilize the audio through HDMI features

Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support

ATI Radeon^TM HD 4800 series GPUs offer full support for the new DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 10.1 API (Application Program Interface) from Microsoft; ready to meet the demanding needs of new, next generation games. DirectX 10 is the first totally new DirectX in the last 4 years and brings important graphics innovations that can be used by game developers for the next generation of games. DirectX 10 introduces crisp, never-beforeseen detail-rich images, visual effects and game dynamics capable of accurately simulating the real world. No matter which ATI Radeon^TM HD 4800 Series GPU you choose, you can be assured that games will look as good as the developer intended!

ATI CrossFireX^TM Technology

ATI CrossFireX^TM multi-GPU technology takes your gaming experience to the next level with superb scalability, performance and compatibility. The technology combines the awe-inspiring capabilities of multiple ATI Radeon^TM graphics cards and an ATI CrossFireX ready motherboard to meet the hard-core demands of your alternate reality. New ATI Radeon^TM HD graphics cards are designed with an internal ATI CrossFire^TM Bridge Interconnect system to simplify installation.

Microsoft® Windows Vista®

ATI Radeon^TM HD 4800 series graphics cards provide support for the Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system and take advantage of the Windows Aero^TM graphical interface. You will be amazed by the dazzling 3D visual effects and have peace of mind that the ATI Catalyst^TM software and drivers are designed and thoroughly tested to ensure full compatibility and stability to help keep you up and running. All these new technologies and features make the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series of GPUs the ideal solution for ultimate HD gaming and HD video entertainment with the Windows Vista OS

ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 - GPU Specifications

• 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
• 256-bit GDDR3/4/5 memory interface
• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
  • Shader Model 4.1
  • 32-bit floating point texture filtering
  • Indexed cube map arrays
  • Independent blend modes per render target
  • Pixel coverage sample masking
  • Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
  • Gather4 texture fetching
• Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
  • 800 stream processing units
    • Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
    • Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
    • Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
  • 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
  • Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
  • Shader instruction and constant caches
  • Up to 160 texture fetches per clock cycle
  • Up to 128 textures per pixel
  • Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
  • DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
  • High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
  • Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
  • Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
  • Re-Z, and Z Range optimization
  • Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
  • Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
  • Up to 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing
  • Accelerated physics processing
• Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
  • High performance vertex cache
  • Programmable tessellation unit
  • Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
  • Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
• Anti-aliasing features
  • Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
  • Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
  • Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
  • Gamma correct
  • Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)
  • All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
• Texture filtering features
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
  • 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
  • sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
  • Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
  • Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
  • Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
• OpenGL 2.1 support
• ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform⁶
  • Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats
    • High definition (HD) playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD video
    • Dual stream (HD+SD) playback support
    • DirectX Video Acceleration 1.0 & 2.0 support
    • Support for BD-Live certified applications
  • Hardware DivX and MPEG-1 video decode acceleration
  • Accelerated video transcoding & encoding for H.264 and MPEG-2 formats
  • ATI Avivo Video Post Processor⁶
    • Color space conversion
    • Chroma subsampling format conversion
    • Horizontal and vertical scaling
    • Gamma correction
    • Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
    • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
    • Detail enhancement
    • Color vibrance and flesh tone correction
    • Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
    • Bad edit correction
    • Enhanced DVD upscaling (SD to HD)
    • Automatic dynamic contrast adjustment
  • Two independent display controllers
    • Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
    • Full 30-bit display processing
    • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
    • Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
    • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
    • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
    • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
    • Hardware cursor
  • Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
    • Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)²
    • Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content³
  • Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
    • Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536²
  • DisplayPort output support
    • 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x1600²
  • HDMI output support
    • All display resolutions up to 1920x1080²
    • Integrated HD audio controller with support for stereo and multi-channel (up to 7.1) audio formats, including AC-3, AAC, DTS, DTS-HD & Dolby True-HD⁴, enabling a plug-and-play audio solution over HDMI
  • Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
    • Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
    • Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
    • Underscan and overscan compensation
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
  • VGA mode support on all display outputs
• ATI PowerPlay™ Technology⁵
  • Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
  • Performance-on-Demand
    • Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
    • Clock and memory speed throttling
    • Voltage switching
    • Dynamic clock gating
    • Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
• ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
  • Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs
  • Integrated compositing engine
  • High performance dual channel bridge interconnect¹

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