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HIS R7 260X iPower IceQ X² 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card Review

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HIS R7 260X iPower IceQ X² 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card Review

 

AMD's R7 260X graphics card has become infinitely more popular since

AMD reduced initial launch pricing down from $140 to $120. Of course

the competitiveness of the R7 260X has been helped by the fact its

biggest rival, Nvidia's GTX 650 Ti Boost, has been discontinued and is

now hard to find. This leaves Nvidia's newly released Maxwell based

GTX 750 to fight the R7 260X instead of the GTX 650 Ti Boost which is

problematic for Nvidia as the GTX 750 is a much slower card that costs

a similar price.Today we have an R7 260X from HIS Digital, their HIS

R7 260X iPower IceQ X² 2GB GDDR5 graphics card

<http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-775.shtml>

. The R7 260X is known for being quite a hot running graphics card

because AMD took the HD 7790 design, overclocked it even more and

rebranded it. Therefore HIS' implementation needs to effectively deal

with the heat of the R7 260X and keep noise under control. If you

haven't read our launch day review of the R7 260X you can do so here

<http://www.eteknix.com/amd-radeon-r7-260x-2gb-graphics-card-review/>

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Specifications Analysis

 

Out of the box the HIS R7 260X is just a stock R7 260X in terms of

its clock speeds so quite honestly we should expect within margin of

error performance of the reference card as there are no thermal

limitations a non-reference design can overcome. I am disappointed HIS

haven't overclocked the card and that they are charging more than

reference pricing, in my opinion this card is priced too close to the

R7 265 and GTX 750 Ti to be truly competitive, we hope HIS are just

delayed in reducing their prices in response to AMD's February price

cuts….although February was an awfully long time ago.

 

URL -

http://www.eteknix.com/r7-260x-ipower-iceq-x%C2%B2-2gb-gddr5-graphics-card-review/

 

 

 

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