"overall package it really makes a lot of sense. If you can live with the gaudy see-through cooler design, it combines very high levels of performance with one of the lowest noise emissions we have recorded for a card in this range. If noise is a problem for you then this could very well be a perfect, high performance partn" KitGuru "Must Have"

"Overclocking the HD 6850 IceQX turbo could provide you 10% more than normal HD 6850.  And also the coller operates quietly and efficiently"-Gamestar "Playing Tips"

"The HIS HD 6570 Silence has shown itself to be a great little card. It does rather well in games, despite not being what most would call a gamers card.With 7.1 surround (including Dolby HD and DTS HD sound) sound via it’s HDMI interface, you have a complete card for HTPC duties." - Viperlair "Editor's Choice"

"Video cards based on AMD Radeon HD6450, the most appropriate to use within the home media center (HTPC). It consumes little power, absolutely silent, provides excellent image quality, built-in hardware video decode Blu-ray 3D and HD-audio output via HDMI 1.4a, as well as different support all current interfaces."EasyCOM "High Functionality"

"The HIS HD 6870 IceQ X TurboX is the best HD 6870 we’ve tested to date.  Combined with a strong price tag, this is just a great model thanks to its performance and cooling efficency. HIS are onto a real winner here." TweakTown "Editor's Choice Award"

"As we could see in the tests, in  many situations, the 6870 IceQ X Turbo X overpassed a reference model Radeon HD 6950, showing that depending on the price, it is a great choice compared to the AMD model which besides being a bigger size also uses more power."-Adrenaline "Gold Seal Product"

"The HIS IceQ X HD 6790 managed to stay very silent and remained at around 38°C while idling and 59°C under load. Overclocking the card resulted in a minor increase of maximum temperature of 62°C." - Tbreak "Recommended Product"

"HIS has come up with a very tasty edition of the HD6870... with the high factory overclocks it becomes a real match for the Nvidia card...the cooler is also a very nice addition,the IceQ X cooler is still a huge improvement both in temperatures as well as noise"-Metku "Gold Award"

"HIS continues its tradition. The new IceQ X series really offer what we expect from a cooler.You can enjoy high performance with more overclock because of  IceQ X potential and even beat HD6870 on performance. The card was still silent and cool when we reach 1075/5200 frequencies. We recommend HIS HD6860 IceQ X Turbo to all performance seekers"Technolabs "Editor's Choice"

"HIS markets this card as "the fastest HD6870 card", and while we haven't tested every HD6870 card on the market, this card certainly is a lot faster than both a regular HD6870 and the overclocked PowerColor PCS HD6870. When also considering the silent and efficient cooler and extra overclocking headroom, it is clear that this must be one of the best HD6870 cards that money can currently buy."-Bjorn3D "Sliver Award"

"HIS has always been one of the best partners ATI ever.. low temperatures and low noise levels are the reasons as to why the HIS Radeon HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo 1GB gets our Editors Real Choice Award." - RealWorld Lab "Editor's Choice"

"HIS's HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo X card is all about what you did and what you didn't see.  I didn't see the IceQ X Turbo X HD 6870 stomp on the reference card but I did see it beat that same reference card out EVERY time." Overclocker Cafe "Editor's Choice"

"In the test we experience low temperatures without load and a relatively low power consumption.Based on performance, the robust features and the remaining overclockingspotentiale we reward their HIS HD 6870 Turbo with a "Great Product" award." - Tweak.dk "Great Product"

"The implementation IceQX HIS Radeon HD 6790 reinforces the idea that represents an excellent video card. If the present model, we deal with an ideal combination of good performances, good overclocking, low temperatures and very low noise level. And for everything to be perfect....This is a Best Buy and would not be missed by gamers" - IT File "Recommended Product"

"When it came to overclocking, the HIS 6850 IceQ X Turbo managed to edge out the MSI card by a smidge. It managed a maximum overclocking state of 1020MHz at the core and 4800MHz DDR at the memory, achieving 7834 3DMarks, 171 3DMarks or just 2% more than the MSI card" -Hardwarezone "Very Good Product"

Overclocking went well, with plenty of room in the Catalyst Control Center, negating the need for third party software to be used... it the IceQ X cooling setup was able to keep the temperature relatively low at a 70C maximum (while overclocked)...Overall then, the HIS 6870 IceQ X Turbo X is an easy card to recommend. It’s cool, quiet, and simply the fastest out of the box 6870 we’ve come across" -Viperlair "Editor's Choice"

"New 3Dmark and the IceQ X Turbo X actually squeezes past the GTX560. It also manages the second best score in the Performance-preset..The IceQ X cooler is also easily enough to cope with the heat output and during the testing the card remained very quiet." - Metku "Gold Award"

"The Radeon HD 6870 goes well for all tested games in the highest resolutions and detail levels.The overclocking potential of the card is good, after all, we get 75 MHz more than with the PowerColor HD 687" Radeon3D "Price Performance Award"

"HIS Radeon HD 6850 ICEQ X Turbo delivers excellent value for money...HIS has fabricsoverclocket Radeon HD 6850 ICEQ X Turbo for 820 / 1150 MHz, allowing 4-5% extra performance relative to the reference design." - Tweak.dk "Great Product"

"this graphics cards does very good job in power saving without us "overpaid" for electric bill. In our test, Crysis 2 that had just been launched about 2 weeks ago running smoothly with this graphics card."OCDrift "Recommended"