Installation
Compared to previous cards I have owned, this card is so cute and little. It is only around half the length of my ATX motherboard. Looking at it next to my Radeon 7970 it is funny how small it actually is. Most people will not have any length concerns, but you will have to make sure that you have two slots available due to it being a double-width card.
Test Setup
| Processor | Intel Core i7- 3930k@ 3.5ghz |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte X79-UD3 |
| Ram | Crucial Ballistix Elite 1866mhz |
| Graphics Card | HIS Radeon 6570 IceQ (1Gb DDR3) |
| Hard Drive | Patriot 120Gb Pryo SSD |
| Optical Drive | Samsung 8X DVD-rw |
| CPU Cooler | Custom water loop |
| Power Supply | Antec 1200w Quattro |
| Chassis | Navig Benching Station |
| Monitor | 24″ Samsung (1920×1200) |
| OS | Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit |
To test the HIS Radeon 6570 IceQ, we used a test rig based on the above components. . Here are some of the benchmark software which we’ll be using:
- GPU-Z
- AIDA64
- 3D Mark Vantage
- Unigine Heaven (DX11)
- Aliens Vs. Predator (DX11)
- Far Cry 2 (DX10)
- Battlefield 3 (DX11)
- Stalker: Call of Pripyat (DX 11)
- Street Fighter IV (DX 9)
AMD Catalyst Drivers
All tests were run using the Catalyst 11.12 64-bit drivers on Windows 7.
