The Box and Packaging
Packaging on the HIS Radeon 7790 is just your standard HIS affair. Everything is packaged nice and safely on the inside along with a massive set of accessories (not really). You get a driver disk, a manual and a DVI to VGA adapter. At retail you also get the Never settle games bundle which greatly boosts the value of this card. The outside of the package is your standard HIS affair with a cool looking sword on the package as well as a bunch of marketing information on the box.
The card and iTurbo heatsink
The biggest thing that stands out to me is the darn shroud that HIS decided to use. It is simply un-needed. It extends a couple inches past the end of the card. I understand that they are re-using parts from other cards that may be longer but at the very least they could chop off the end of thr shroud to shorten things up a fair bit. Looking at the heatsink it is a copper base with aluminum fins and a fan slapped on top. The copper bits aren’t exactly anything spectacular but it does a fair job at cooling this card.
The layout on the card is well done. All of the power bits are spaced out quite well to promote sufficient cooling across the whole card. There is a small heatsink on the main power section that gets air from the main fan on the card. Temps are not anywhere near what I would call hot but this card does have a tendency to get quite loud at higher fan speeds. Once you start cranking the voltage and overclocking things can get a tad noisy.
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