HIS Radeon R9 290X IceQ X2 Turbo Spotted, Coming Soon
HIS' Radeon R9-290X IceQ X2 has been posted on a UK-based webshop.
A British webshop, Overclockers UK, has listed the HIS Radeon R9 290X IceQ X2 Turbo graphics card. This graphics card is a custom Radeon R9 290X solution, and as such features a non-reference cooler.
The Unit's PCB appears to be blue, though it remains unclear whether the PCB, beyond the color, is of a custom design. The IceQ X2 cooler on the unit carries two 89 mm fans, along with a pair of eight heat pipes parallel to another three 6 mm heat pipes.
There was no clear word on the card's clock speeds, but if the increase in clocks is the same as that of other custom solutions, then it's reasonable to expect about a 40 MHz bump over the reference 1000 MHz clock speed.
The card is not available for direct purchase yet, but rather for preorder. It'll become yours sometime in January if you preorder for £499.99.

Black pcb's please.
Black pcb's please.
I don't know about any manufacturers other then Sapphire and HIS using blue pbc's and the reason they use them is the color blue is similar to the shade most common in sapphires and blue goes with HIS's theme of ice and general coldness.
Still waiting for manufactures to provide black PCI brackets instead of the standard Silver too. So far NZXT and Orico are the only OEMs I know that provide them with their PCI products.
By the way, black don't attract heat, but sun light which result in more heat since black absorb the whole spectrum.
Some people want their PC to be a certain theme or color. I wont do white anything as I feel that's the old PC style and it reminds me of the white that went beige.
I get it though, if you spend $500+ on a GPU you want it to appeal in looks to you.
I recently did something I normally don't. I bought a $300 dollar motherboard, the Maximus VI Formula. One was the superior components but second was that I don't like the new gold theme Asus has (preferred the old blue) but am ok with red.
Plus I felt like spoiling myself for once with a high end mobo.
So I plan to replaced my HD7970 Vapor-X with a R9 290/290X from Asus to match my new red/black theme. It will look nice to me which is what matters the most.
Got two words for you: Back plate
I totally agree, you pick the best performance card (price/performance/acoustic) and screw the colour. Its not like you ever have to look at it unless you have a windowed case but the acoustics sucks on those things anyway.
colour coordinating the inside of your PC is just sad.
I totally agree, you pick the best performance card (price/performance/acoustic) and screw the colour. Its not like you ever have to look at it unless you have a windowed case but the acoustics sucks on those things anyway.
colour coordinating the inside of your PC is just sad.
what is sad is that you judge other people for what they like to do. What does it matter to you?
I know gold means prosperity in Chinese culture, but blue + gold..........(weird)
(I think black gold, red gold is better than blue gold)
Don't see the big deal. It's a graphics card and it's apparently a pretty good one.