HIS Excalibur X800 Pro IceQ II VIVO LIMITED EDITION

Introduction

A week ago, I reviewed the HIS Excalibur X800 XT IceQ II VIVO LIMITED EDITION from HIS. I found it to be an excellent card well worth its price. But what if you don’t have the money for an X800 XT card? HIS has the solution for that too with the HIS Excalibur X800 Pro IceQ II VIVO LIMITED EDITION. The card is the same as the X800 XT IceQ II VIVO LIMITED EDITION except for the X800 Pro chip.

Just as the HIS X800XT IceQ II VIVO Edition, the HIS X800Pro IceQ II VIVO Edition is pretty different from the reference design.

The first thing that is apparent is that this card uses a really cool (pun intended) cooler. It is called the Arctic ATI Silencer 4. The IceQ II cooling system draws cool air from inside the case and exhausts warm air outwards. This prevents the fan from recycling warm air to cool the VPU, which increases cooling performance and lowers the air temperature inside the case significantly. HIS claims that the cooler not only lowers the temperature around 11 degrees compared to the stock cooler but also is much more silent. The downside of course is that this card is a 2-slot solution compared to the reference X800 Pro/XT that is a 1-slot solution.