HIS Radeon R9-290X Hybrid ICEQ review - Product Photos

Product Photos - R9-290X

Let's start with our photo-shoot. Two pages worth of photos then, and most of it from our own photo-shoot.
 

Packaging first, as always. A nice and shiny yellow themed packaging will await you in the stores, it will be hard to miss that of course. As stated, the graphics card is factory overclocked towards 1100 MHz, but more importantly, it is a card with a proper cooler, a cooler that the GPU deserves and needs. 

The card is 11 Inches in length which is like 28~29 cm for those in that like and reside in the Metric system. HIs will include a free mouse mat as well.

The cooling solution of the card is from Arctic cooling and is  a hybrid fan technology based product. As such the heatsink covered VRM areas and such will be cooled with the help of a small fan, the GPU however has a liquid cooling loop leading to a 120mm radiator. For the combo of the cooling, PCB and a Hawaii XT GPU is going to be impressive, used here is the most power-ful PCB ever utilized for an AMD Hawaii based GPU. A nice 4 GB of 512-bit memory is fitted on there running not at 5.0 Gbps but 6 Gbps. Anybody with a monitor resolution up-to 2560x1440 can play their games at extremely good quality settings, and with a small tweak or two, Ultra high definition gaming at that Big Whopper of a resolution called UHD - 3840 x 2160 pixels. And as our article will show later on, there's room for tweaking as we got this puppy running stable at roughly 1150 MHz on the boost frequency. 

AMD allows you to opt for the multi-GPU road with Crossfire as an option. You can pair two in one PC and have them do a decent workout. As mentioned earlier, a Crossfire bridge is no longer needed. The data will be moved over the PCIE (preferably 3.0) bus. The card has two DVI monitor connectors as well as full-size HDMI and a Display port connector.