Sunday, August 24th 2008
HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Released
HIS has finally brought out its IceQ 4 series HD 4800 series graphics accelerator, this one uses the ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics processor and uses the fourth generation IceQ 4 dual-chamber cooling technology and continues to maintain a premium look and feel while offering higher levels of cooling performance and the usual UV-sensitive cooler. The card uses reference ATI GPU and memory clock speeds. Expreview reports that this card is already listed by Japanese sales partner Akihabara and priced at US $ 210 there.
Update:
HIS has two more models added to the IceQ 4 series: Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo (H485QT512P) comes with the core clocked at 650 MHz with 2.00 GHz and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. Also on offer is a 1 GB variant (H485QS1GP). It uses reference ATI clock speeds. For more details, please visit the HIS IceQ series micro-site here.
Sources:
Expreview, HIS
Update:
HIS has two more models added to the IceQ 4 series: Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo (H485QT512P) comes with the core clocked at 650 MHz with 2.00 GHz and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. Also on offer is a 1 GB variant (H485QS1GP). It uses reference ATI clock speeds. For more details, please visit the HIS IceQ series micro-site here.
30 Comments on HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Released
Are these coolers for people that dont change the fan speed ? Ive noticed theres heaps of people that have issues alternating the fan speed manually when the CCC or some third party software they have entrusted all these years fails to supports it. Is the 4850 cooler really pathetic compared to the 4870 ? I have a 4870 and 4870x2 and 90% fan speed on either is enough to cool the entire rig.
www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_675&products_id=8013&zenid=ed7430eb2aaca5b4fcfb3df2e60e8e3d
Looks like we got something first for a change :P (it's been on pccasegear for 4+ days now)
(Not to mention mine should be arriving soon, as the replacement for my dead 8800GTX :()
Since most 4850s are around $150ish now I don't see this cooler justifying a $100 markup.
Now, its on to the 4870 goodness of IceQ 4 represent!
With the dual slot ATi stock coolers, they can get the job done, but they are really loud when you crank the fan speeds up much past 50%. With the HIS coolers, you can usually push the fan speed to near 100% and the fan will be inaudiable.
Maybe when income taxes come in....:(
but then again, if it's sold at US$210 in USA, that would be too much IMHO
a standard 4850 and a decent cooling, namely zalman VF-1000LED would cost less than that.
but if those price is in my country, that would be great ;)
Ice adds the "cooling" USP to this product. If they had stuck to red, they probably would have had to use something like "Inferno" or "Magma" as the catch which sounds scary if better cooling (in essence better OC headroom) is what a buyer is looking for.
^doesn't that look inviting though just a PR stunt?