HIS Out With HD 4870 Fan Edition

Wednesday, February 25 2009

Having come up with the Radeon HD 4850 Fan Edition, HIS now has Fan Edition variants for the Radeon HD 4870. Coming in 512 MB (model: H487FN512P) and 1 GB (model: H487FN1GP) models, the Radeon HD 4870 Fan builds on the design methodology of simplistic cooling on the blue-coloured AMD reference design PCB that goes into making the IceQ 4 variants. The card uses heatsinks over the memory and VRM areas, while using a somewhat large GPU cooler. The cooler consists of aluminum fins projecting radially from the GPU contact block. A blue LED-lit fan nucleates the cooler.

The card comes with reference AMD clock speeds of 750/900 MHz (core/memory). Listed on American e-tailer Newegg.com for US $164.99 (512 MB) and $204.99 (1 GB), the HD 4870 Fan is comparatively lower-priced than even reference-design HD 4870 cards from other makes. With the reference design PCB on offer, the two invariably become great buys if one needs to buy reference design PCBs to install water-cooling, not to say that the cooler this comes with is insufficient.

Source: TechConnect Magazine

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User comments

by leonard_222003 (February 25th - 3:48 PM) - Reply

I hope they make a single slot HD4870 , ultra cheap for a 4870.

by ShadowFold (February 25th - 4:04 PM) - Reply

My 4830 has a fan similar to this and it cools VERY well. I would probably get that 1gig if I got a 4870.

by PVTCaboose1337 (February 25th - 4:07 PM) - Reply

The fan matching the board is quite attractive, as are the dual black DVI plugs. (Gold plated?)

by WarEagleAU (February 25th - 5:25 PM) - Reply

HIS is out once again with quality products. I was hoping for some variations on better PCB layout/design or overclocked but for the price Id take it.

by Nick89 (February 25th - 6:15 PM) - Reply

hmm, i saw this on newegg 1-2 days ago before this was posted, didnt think it was news worthy :(

by DaveK (February 25th - 6:33 PM) - Reply

God dam that black and blue goes well together, that card is nice. I wish I was able to get the card for that price, the cheapest 1GB 4870 here is the red Sapphire and costs 233.50 Euro/$297.45 and this one in the US only costs 160.88 euro/$204.99. Lame.

I want this or the IceQ4 version :(

by Paintface (February 25th - 7:17 PM) - Reply

by: DaveK
God dam that black and blue goes well together, that card is nice. I wish I was able to get the card for that price, the cheapest 1GB 4870 here is the red Sapphire and costs 233.50 Euro/$297.45 and this one in the US only costs 160.88 euro/$204.99. Lame.

I want this or the IceQ4 version :(

i would suggest ordering them online from Germany as i do

http://geizhals.at/eu/?cat=gra16_512;xf=132_1024~891_Radeon%20HD%204870&sort=p

prices start at 180 euros for a Saphire 4870 1GB with custum cooling simular to the Toxic

by ArmoredCavalry (February 25th - 9:39 PM) - Reply

Wow, that is a really nice price on Newegg, especially after MIR.

My only issue is, it seems the fan is very loud. Make me wonder if this could be changed with Riva Tuner, or if the fan is loud even on low settings. :ohwell:

by kyle2020 (February 25th - 9:41 PM) - Reply

by: PVTCaboose1337
The fan matching the board is quite attractive, as are the dual black DVI plugs. (Gold plated?)

not gold plated, must just be a paint coating - the screw in retention hole things are also done in the same colour, and if it were gold plating that would be unnecessary and push up production costs, so its unlikely.

by PCpraiser100 (February 25th - 9:56 PM) - Reply

That is a great price, the fan goes nice with the PCB too.

by buggalugs (February 26th - 1:12 AM) - Reply

by: ArmoredCavalry
Wow, that is a really nice price on Newegg, especially after MIR.

My only issue is, it seems the fan is very loud. Make me wonder if this could be changed with Riva Tuner, or if the fan is loud even on low settings. :ohwell:

Its the first thing i noticed, the fan only has 2 wires so its a one speed fan. That usually means its noisy at idle.

I made the same mistake with a Gigabyte 4870 1GB with zalman fan. The fan was just way to noisy at idle so i took it back. I cant stand noisy fans and this HIS looks the same.

by suraswami (February 26th - 1:16 AM) - Reply

by: buggalugs
Its the first thing i noticed, the fan only has 2 wires so its a one speed fan. That usually means its noisy at idle.

I made the same mistake with a Gigabyte 4870 1GB with zalman fan. The fan was just way to noisy at idle so i took it back. I cant stand noisy fans and this HIS looks the same.

Yup. My gigabyte's Zalman fan starts to make noise and vibrate. Guess time for a cooler change.

by ShadowFold (February 26th - 1:52 AM) - Reply

All my past HIS cards had gold DVI connectors. They are just painted that and they claim it reduces noise or something like that.

by Melvis (February 26th - 2:28 AM) - Reply

My brother just got his 3rd 4850 (other two died, XpertVison) from HIS and it has the same cooler on it, its not called a "Fan Edition" tho.

We are both impressed how cool it keeps the card and also how quite it is.

Well done HIS :toast:

by nafets (February 26th - 5:27 AM) - Reply

While this type of cooling may be viable with HD4830/50 cards, I highly recommend staying away from these particular HIS units based on the HD4870.

The main problem is that the PCB in use is the original 3-phase reference design, which has very hot running VRMs. The only recommended cooler for this PCB is the reference dual-slot exhausting cooler.. A simple flower-type cooler isn't going to be effective enough to disperse the massive amounts of heat residing in the small and inefficient VRM heatsink. HIS is simply cheapening out on the cooling and trying to pass off a sub-standard setup onto the consumer.

Steer clear...

by Hayder_Master (February 26th - 7:08 AM) - Reply

what about cooling performance , seems not good with cooler

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