HIS Announces Higher Overclocked R9 290X IceQ X² Turbo

altrewin · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:17

TechPowerUp said:
HIS announced a Radeon R9 290X IceQ X² Turbo graphics card with a higher GPU factory overclock of 1060 MHz. The memory on the card is left untouched at 5.00 GHz, at which it belts out a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s, thanks to its 512-bit wide memory interface. The card is among the only R9 290 series boards featuring a blue-colored PCB, in signature HIS fashion, and an IceQ X² cooling solution with a soft-gold color shroud and back-plate. We're not sure how well that goes with blue. The cooler is a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's ventilated by a pair of 10 cm fans.

http://www.techpowerup.com/199745/h...ocked-r9-290x-iceq-x-turbo-graphics-card.html

MY EYES!

Space Monkey · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:29

The 1980s called and it wants its GPU back!

arc@css · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:30

I really don't know what possessed them to use that colour. Each to their own, but I think that looks pretty bad.

darket · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:33

Grim, they should name it the HIS Cortina and give it a Brown Vinyl backplate

Space Monkey · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:34

darket said:
Grim, they should name it the HIS Cortina and give it a Brown Vinyl backplate

Yeah but that'd improve it

Doco · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:35

I quite like the HIS design and colour schemes - mostly - the leaf blower style on the boost cards always looked well, but tbh I'm not overly fussed on this design and colour - just don't like the gold, personal preference and all.

Other than that - impressive factory overclock - it always looks to me that the factory overclocks leave a bit to be desired - but on these, do we think these cards could push the clocks abit further?

4737Joker · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:46

Probably look nice on a white/black pcb, the blue pcb looks horrible

pgi947 · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:47

I'm not sure what's worse, the champagne coloured cooler, the blue PCB or the pathetic excuse for a backplate.

Space Monkey · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:49

pgi947 said:
I'm not sure what's worse, the champagne coloured cooler, the blue PCB or the pathetic excuse for a backplate.

They've managed all 3 together :eek:

Five.Stars · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:50

pgi947 said:
I'm not sure what's worse, the champagne coloured cooler, the blue PCB or the pathetic excuse for a backplate.

I would say the backplate. If you are going to the bother of putting a backplate on, then at least have the decency to cover the entire pcb for christ sakes!

pgi947 · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:52

True, full size back plate may cover up the majority of that rancid PCB too!

Five.Stars · 10 Apr 2014 at 18:57

It is a rancid combination though. Gold? cooler, blue pcb and black backplate - what the hell were they thinking?

There must be some cross company competition/bet on who can create the ugliest gpu of all time, there must be!!!

Jumper118 · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:00

they were clearly going for the colour blind market. the same market that will buy the nh d15.

pgi947 · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:00

Jumper118 said:
they were clearly going for the colour blind market. the same market that will buy the nh d15.

Urgh, that rig would look like melted lego

Jumper118 · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:11

pgi947 said:
Urgh, that rig would look like melted lego

on an asus sabertooth board as well. in a vengeance c70 green case. i'm doing well with this awful looking build.

pgi947 · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:22

Make it happen!!!

Dig out some of that OCZ camo print ram too

Kaapstad · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:27

One small problem

They left off the go faster strips.

pgi947 · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:28

Kaapstad said:
One small problem

They left off the go faster strips.

It has them but you can only see them under a black light, so you'd have to get some cold cathodes in that rancid build too :eek:

Kaapstad · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:32

I just had an awful thought, I have got to put a pic of this monstrosity in the 290X owners thread. :eek:

altrewin · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:57

Damnit, now you guys have got me looking for all the components that would look *BEST* with this, so far:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus X79 Sabertooth Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £249.95
1 x Adata XPG SX910 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (ASX910S3-256GM-C) £184.99
1 x Xilence XQ Series 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
2 x Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLT2CP4G3D1869DT2TXOBCEU) (Orange & Blue Activity LEDs) **WORLD FIRST** £89.99 (£179.98)
1 x Noctua NH-D15 Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler with two NH-A15 Fans £77.99
1 x Aerocool XPredator X3 Avenger Midi-Tower - Red / Gold £75.98
1 x Akasa AK-FN057 Apache Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £9.98
Total : £893.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Had to stop because I started feeling sick, some of these things are hideous...