HIS IceQ X² H797QM3G2M Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Works great in Sim City and some maps in StarCraft II. Better than other cards have done. I don't over clock so I can't say how that is. I do however suggest this card now..

Cons: I still lag in StarCraft II. Only on some maps. But then again I read that most people do even with the GTX 680. So it's not this card.

Other Thoughts: I did a review that there were no pros, well let me update since then. Some people have said that they had issues and then it worked itself out, well apparently mine did the same. I have not had that issue anymore of the screen going blank. It is actually working better now than it did. Maybe it does take some time to break in and maybe I wrote the review too soon.

Pros: Looks good, The card is well built and sturdy. The cooler is much quieter than reference design. The card averages 68c in crysis 3. Plays most games at max settings with frame rates at or above 60fps. Card is long, but it is not thick and can easily be cross fired. Pc mark 7333 in firestrike bench.

Cons: The card is long and will not fit in many cases thanks to the extra long cooler. FPS hang in the 20's very often when playing crysis 3 with all settings maxed out. This seems to be average for most high end cards, crysis is a beast, and can easily compensated for by turning off AA.

Other Thoughts: I was able to overclock my card to 1175 core and 1500 memory on air. The core voltage is 1184 and the memory voltage is 1600. I have not been able to hit 1200 but I am sure that I could if I increased my voltage to 1250. I will see if I can get a Waterblock that can fit this card, then I will be more aggressive with my overclocks.

AMD fx8350
Asus Crosshair V formula-z
Corsair Dominator gt ram
Corsair ax-1200 power supply
this card
Creative x-fi titanium hd soundcard
samsung 840 pro 256gb ssd
3tb Seagate hard drive
custom watercooled loop that inclueds waterblocks for the Motherboard, CPU and RAM.

Pros: None at this time.

Cons: I bought this card just barely a week now, and I am having issues with the screen going blank. It does this at random and is very aggravating because I have to turned my computer off and then back on to get the display back. Sometimes I hear 2 beeps and that tells me it's not coming on. Reset again and hope I don't get the beeps. when you are playing your game, and it goes blank, I mean come on.
I know it's this card because I put another video card in and no problems.

Other Thoughts: You know you pay good money for this stuff and then it doesn't work, and New Egg is out now, so what do you do?

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Pros: - Overclockable
- Works well for BTC mining

Cons: - Noisy and massive, but that was expected
- Uses ridiculous wattage

Other Thoughts: It seems to take some time to "break in". For the first few days I was getting pixel jittering, but it went away and hasn't been back for months. Also went through a phase a few weeks ago where it would BSOD, but this has also stopped completely. Both issues likely due to severe overclocking.

Pros: Runs absolutely everything in my steam library at full graphics. My Catleap looks incredible!

This card overclocks like a champ. I run around 1150 MHz GPU and 1600 MHz Memory clocks are stock voltages and it barely reaches 65 degrees centigrade.

I've found that Sapphire TriXX works really well with overclocking this card.

Cons: High Pitched coil whine in some games where the FPS runs incredibly high. Like in menus and stuff. It makes the card sound like its crying and then I get kinda sad too.

Nothing to take an egg off though, it's just loud enough to be noticeable. You can cancel it out with your speakers at medium loudness, or just wear headphones.

Other Thoughts: I recommend this card to everyone with a wallet full enough. It's one of the cheapest 7970s on the market.

Pros: Fast, quiet
clocks - 1175/1670
free games

fast shipping, great price!

Cons: should have bought 2

Pros: Absolutely fabulous construction. I can do nothing but give HIS 5stars in regards to build quality. Nearly plug and play.
Newegg was fantastic about shipping 2 days...i paid for 3 day :)
Wouldnt buy another top shelf card. And what a outstanding price.

Runs like a charm on the sabertooth 990fx w/ 955BE on it ;)

clocked her a bit and even metro 2033 runs smooth as butter.

Cons: None that i really notice.
A certificate of testing would have been nice but im futsy and like to display stuff

Other Thoughts: This is the first time in the technology industry that i have been absolutely blown away by a product. I have to give it all to HIS.

Awesome product guys


Thanks for the quick shipping Newegg you guys are the best

Pros: Affordable price and very powerful. Also stays really cool.

Cons: It stopped working after the second week, while investigating it damaged my motherboard.

Other Thoughts: I lost the box and newegg wouldn't replace it, or the mobo. I know it's my fault but on a limited income I've lost over 550$ from newegg.com. It could have been a lot less painful had the support worked with me. I am very sad, just be careful with it.

Pros: -Work Perflectly
-I don't get it at all why a lot of person say it's noisy... i find it really quiet
-Temperature are really good. I OC it to core 1125 and memory 1500 and the max temperature i have seen is 70!

Cons: none

Pros: Runs everything I throw at it on high/ultra, and still plays the games without breaking a sweat.

Cons: This thing is HUGE! Do some research, I upgraded from a 6750, and figured it was about an inch longer than the 6750. I was wrong, its about 2 inches, and it does NOT fit in a storm scout case, I had to snip off two of my hard drive slots to get this bad boy in there. I thought my case was big enough, so make sure your case is BIG!