“Very good performance and overclocking”

59Hardware – Recommended Award

HIS has succeeded to transform it into a great deal for the second time, by including the proven two-slot cooling system which is equipped with two 89mm silent fans. Through the heatsink fins we will find no less than five heatpipes, which keep the GPU plate nice and cool during heavy load.

Talking about the overclocking capabilities, we would like to remind again that the product features a mild overclock, but with the help of the iTurbo utility we have succeeded to surpass the performance of the 7970 GHz Edition. The total of 3GB graphics memory allow the card to perform admirably even at resolutions over Full-HD but be careful when setting the detail levels since we will often drop under 60FPS while using resolutions of 2560x1440 or 2560x1600.

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“good silence if fan tuning and single slot”

Gyazo

“Pros:
•    Easy installation and configuration
•    Compatible with nearly every monitor up to 2048x1152
•    Reasonable price
•    Good video and audio quality”

“The HIS Multi-View adapters are something unique on our market. We do not often see any similar products and we cannot really find any competition to HIS Multi-View at the moment. Here comes the Muliti-View adapter with a USB connector which solves all of the issues with the lack of additional video outputs. The installation and configuration was really simple. Flawless, "plug and play" configuration is for sure a big advantage especially when you are moving with the computer frequently. A quick, one-time driver installation lets you easily connect to additional displays on any other workplace. “

“The HIS Multi-View adapters are great devices that I can recommend to everyone who needs to connect additional displays to their computer but lacks the additional outputs or graphics card functionality. With the HIS Multi-View, everyone can take advantage of larger workspace without spending much money.”

Funkykit - Value Award

“Pros:
•    Easy installation and configuration
•    Compatible with nearly every monitor up to 2048x1152
•    Reasonable price
•    Good video and audio quality”

“The HIS Multi-View adapters are something unique on our market. We do not often see any similar products and we cannot really find any competition to HIS Multi-View at the moment. Here comes the Muliti-View adapter with a USB connector which solves all of the issues with the lack of additional video outputs. The installation and configuration was really simple. Flawless, "plug and play" configuration is for sure a big advantage especially when you are moving with the computer frequently. A quick, one-time driver installation lets you easily connect to additional displays on any other workplace. “

“The HIS Multi-View adapters are great devices that I can recommend to everyone who needs to connect additional displays to their computer but lacks the additional outputs or graphics card functionality. With the HIS Multi-View, everyone can take advantage of larger workspace without spending much money.”

Funkykit - Editor's Choice Award

“Pros:
•    Small form design
•    Cool and quiet
 
Both cards run very cool and quiet, while being frugal with power requirements, and could suit anyone looking for an affordable upgrade without having to overhaul a system or splurge for a new power supply. We typically see very good cooler designs from HIS, and these two cards are no different. Posting load temperatures up to the mid-60s Celcius on the 260X, and only 59°C on the 250X, it’s great to see such cool running cards here. The 250X in particular would be well suited to an HTPC setup. It’s got strong performance, but not the unequivocal king of the hill in its price range.”

Pureoverclock - Good Hardware Award

“Pros:
•    Small form design
•    Cool and quiet
•    Good gaming value for the 260X
 
Both cards run very cool and quiet, while being frugal with power requirements, and could suit anyone looking for an affordable upgrade without having to overhaul a system or splurge for a new power supply. We typically see very good cooler designs from HIS, and these two cards are no different. Posting load temperatures up to the mid-60s Celcius on the 260X, and only 59°C on the 250X, it’s great to see such cool running cards here. The 250X in particular would be well suited to an HTPC setup. It’s got strong performance, but not the unequivocal king of the hill in its price range.”

Pureoverclock - Good Hardware Award

“Pros:

 - Excellent performance
 - Preoverclocked
 - Quality components
 - Digital power system
 - Good performance and quite cooling system IceQ X2
 - Very good overclocking potential”

EasyCom - The Choice of Overclockers

“HIS R9 280 IceQ X2 Turbo is very good and quality product, super quite, and low temperatures”

Overclockers - Editors Choice Best Quality Award

“This is essentially a re-brand of the HD 7790. HIS works their magic on the reference based card by putting on their latest iCooler to help keep the card much quieter and cooler than the reference model. This is the “iCooler” version of the R7 260X, so HIS has put their all aluminum cooler with what looks like a 100 mm fan to help keep the card cool and quiet (SPOILER ALERT: they succeeded!). The card optimizes DirectX® 11.2 gaming performance automatically up to 2.5 times faster! It also offers up to 4.5x compute performance and up to 95% lower GPU Idle Power Consumption! iCooler is Quiet – The card is equipped with iCooler, making it extremely quiet and noise level is less than 28dB. You feel the quietness  when viewing photos, browsing webs, checking your email and playing movies in UVD mode.”

Overclockers.com "Approved"

“It features good performance, runs cool and quiet, absolutely sips power, and is easy on the wallet! The card enables a “quality graphics” experience on everyday applications, giving huge performance boosts on image processing, file compression, media converter apps, and a lot more! The iCooler did a great job keeping the card cool. Even better, it did so at an almost inaudible noise level. Even if you set the iCooler to 100% fan speed, it’s still barely noticeable. Again, great for a HTPC application or in an environment where low noise is important. ULTRA HD videos have resolution four times that of current HD videos, meaning images too clear that may deceive your eyes! Get your eyes impressed and enjoy mind-blowing graphics with extreme clarity, depth and texture!”

Overclockers.com "Approved"

Pros
-Unique styling
-Excellent temperatures
-Low noise
-Strong gaming value
-Well priced

"It’s got strong performance and got all of AMD’s new features here, including support for OpenGL, DirectX11.2 and the Mantle API. You also get 1080p gaming at high settings and of course the 4K UltraHD gaming and movie capabilities. This card runs wonderfully cool and quiet, and for $260, you really can’t go wrong."

Overclock - Great Hardware Award

 Pros
-Great Value for Money
-Good for Mid-Range 1080p gaming
-Notable cooler design which keeps temperatures in check

"HIS has certainly built a wonderful card with a very sweet price for the performance it offers. An overclocked variant of an updated gpu architecture that occupies a niche in the upper mid-range and provides considerable value for money."

illgaming.in - The iLL Gaming Bronze Award

“With the release of the Radeon R9 290X series AMD brings an incredibly fast product to the market. It rocks all performance scores in pretty much any game to date. Having that much raw unadulterated horsepower under the hood will bring options to the table. You play your games at 2560x1440 and flick on every quality setting that you can think of. Even then the cards will do a terrific job. The product is often as fast or faster than a GeForce GTX 780 Ti and Titan, whilst it is going to be priced a good chunk lower. The HIS R9 290X is an attractive product with 4GB of graphics memory that will bring a significant amount of gaming performance into your PC.”

Guru3D - Great Value Award

“Pros:
•    Easy installation and configuration
•    Compatible with nearly every monitor up to 2048x1152
•    Reasonable price
•    Good video and audio quality”

“The HIS Multi-View adapters are something unique on our market. We do not often see any similar products and we cannot really find any competition to HIS Multi-View at the moment. Here comes the Muliti-View adapter with a USB connector which solves all of the issues with the lack of additional video outputs. The installation and configuration was really simple. Flawless, "plug and play" configuration is for sure a big advantage especially when you are moving with the computer frequently. A quick, one-time driver installation lets you easily connect to additional displays on any other workplace. “

“The HIS Multi-View adapters are great devices that I can recommend to everyone who needs to connect additional displays to their computer but lacks the additional outputs or graphics card functionality. With the HIS Multi-View, everyone can take advantage of larger workspace without spending much money.”

Funkykit - Recommended Award

“HIS offers a fun graphics card for not a lot of money. Over a 260 I'd take a 260X model anytime, any day. The extra shader processors and 2GB of memory bring in a good deal of value to the product. The 260 is priced fairly, expect 90 to 100 EURO incl VAT. I stated this in the reference review already, we feel that both the R7-260 and 260X could have been a notch faster as they lack just that little punch to fully qualify as a 1080P gaming card. Overall though these are really handy cards to play simple games and excellent cards for an HTPC. Kick in an extra few tenners and you'll notice there are much better alternatives available when it comes to performance though. The HIS Radeon R7 260X iCooler is a very decent and okay product, decent card for the money decent in performance. Overall we can recommend it as an entry level gaming product that offers value for money.”

Guru3D

" Due to advanced hardware, HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Turbo Boost meets the requirements of professional gamer. It comes with all types of connectivity option that is requires to hook multiple monitors and get max HD resolution. 3GB of GDDR5 memory is more than enough for any high end game to run flawlessly. You have to take care about the psu requirement. Because that matters a lot here. Without appropriate power you can’t take maximum benefit. HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Turbo Boost has a very efficient cooling system. And above all it is very quiet when you are using it. The impressive cooling design is able to keep the gpu at low temperature even when you are playing game for hours. Being a high end gpu it fulfills the entire requirement for an extreme gaming pc and also justifies the cost. Auto-overclocking feature add more benefit for those who need extended output."

Pros:
-Good performance
-Quiet
-Good Cooling
-Good Overclocking

Techarena

"The overall value is very good on the card thanks to the strong overclock from HIS. The strong overclock with the improved power delivery system and the bigger dual 8-Pin PCIe power connector setup means that we're also dealing with a custom R9 290X 4GB, which again adds even more value to the card."

"The HIS R9 290X iPower IceQ X2 Turbo 4GB is an extremely strong R9 290X 4GB and even stronger video card. The custom power design, along with the strong out of the box overclock all placed under the fantastic IceQ X2 cooler, makes for a truly awesome video card from HIS."

TweakTown - Editor Choice Award, Rating 93% out of 100%

"The Radeon R9 280 is the Tahiti Pro aka Radeon HD 7950 being re-spun. HIS did a terrific job though, nice clocks frequencies, custom PCB and cooler and a little extra tweaking room makes this one of the better 280 cards currently available. Anyone with a monitor up-to 1920x1080/1200 will see good performance with the latest games available whilst applying harsh image quality settings as well and at 2560x1440 you are still good to go albeit you will have to forfeit on AA or image quality settings with the latest titles. If you can spot this product for roughly 200 EUR then we feel it's a really nice deal that we can recommend very much. The HIS Radeon HDR9-280 IceQ X² OC is a little big in size though, but the cooling performance is great, the noise levels very low, in fact silent

Summed up - Any game will play at a resolution of 1080P perfectly fine with proper image quality settings. Even 2560x1440 is in reach. Aside from cooler and its great performance added benefits are the factory overclock, the four display outputs and overall just a really nice product that will guarantee you a pleasant gaming experience as these cards have plenty of performance to work with.

You can pick up the product for 279 USD, and you'll receive 150 USD worth of free games from the Never Settle Forever bundle to choose as well. Good deal.

Definitely recommended by Guru3D.com"

Guru3D - Guru3D Recommended Award

"The cooling system is much more compact and succeeds to provide great cooling to the GPU and surroundings by using a single fan with 11 blades. During our noise reading tests, we were able to control the speed of the fan via software.

With the HIS 260X iCooler, we could say that many games can be playable at full detail levels while using the 1680x1050 resolution.

From our last 260X review, the prices came down quite a bit, considering that the R7 260X iPower IceQ X2 had an initial price of 144 Euros and now can be found in stores for about 109 Euros. As expected, the HIS Radeon R7 260X iCooler is available for less and to be more exact for about 101 Euros, which makes it quite affordable when taking the overclocking potential into account."

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