We just reviewed the Radeon HD 7850 and 7870 with two retail models. We want to add another article dedicated to the R7870 though, in specific tweaking performance with the R7870 which is the card in ...

A while ago we looked at the HIS HD 7870 IceQ Turbo and even HIS found themselves impressed with what the video card was capable of when we started overclocking it. Wanting to see if we could have the ...

It's not uncommon for companies to offer multiple variants of models and HIS is no different to others. Alongside the IceQ and IceQ X models we've seen from the company, we also have a cheaper variant ...

As expected, the 10 per cent GPU overclock saw the HIS 7870 IceQ perform roughly 10 per cent faster than the stock 7870 throughout our benchmarks, until memory bandwidth became more of a deciding ...

Overclocking performance will vary from sample to sample, so it's important to note that these results aren't a guarantee on what to expect from the Gigabyte and PowerColor cards. But they do give you ...

Colorfire, a subsidiary brand of Asia’s Colorful, has been working on a non reference HD 7870 graphics card designed for extreme overclocking. The card uses a mainly white colour scheme and 120mm fan ...

It’s great to be a PC gamer these days. Gaming PC costs have fallen significantly over the past couple years largely in part due to the amount of performance AMD and Nvidia have been able to cram on ...

For the most-part the HD 7870 2GB performed similarly, or slightly faster than, the retiring HD 6970 2GB throughout our test suite. In ARMA 2 at 1,920 x 1,080 with 4x AA its minimum frame rate of ...

Don't tell overclockers that running a graphics card beyond its rated specs only results in a nominal performance gain, and while you're at it, don't tell MSI, either. While in some cases overclocking ...

When you want to overclock a graphics card typically you need to verify and stabilize your tested settings. First off let us remind you that we recommend increments of 25 MHz on core and memory (from ...

Justifying a graphics card that costs over £250 is a challenge at the best of times, so it's no surprise to find that some observers have approached AMD's Radeon HD 7870 with a good dose of caution.

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