PowerColor : Graphics, Multimedia Cards, Motherboards, Cases, Power Supply

Who searches a relatively cheap graphic card , thanks to the overclocking potential of reaching the next fastest Radeon model, is well served with the HD 7870 PCS + Myst.
For the HD 7870 PCS + Myst speaks especially the high computing power. In part, the performance of the HD 7950 or even HD 7970 is achieved.

PowerColor has taken a high TDP card and put a passive cooler on it. This concept is something that we normally see other partners avoid with a barge pole as keeping a GPU core with a TDP over 100W is not easy by any means. Also a passive card is ideal for this type of installation where the zero acoustic output is the dream for avid home theatre users.

PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 is the only card of its kind on the market, with no competition in sight, so I have to commend PowerColor for creating this option. There is simply no alternative if you want the ability to seriously game with absolutely no noise coming from the graphics card.

The TurboDuo 7790 1GB card from PowerColor is also overclocked from the factory, but the memory frequency was left at the default of 1500MHz.  The TurboDuo is also equipped with a dual fan cooling system, but with a single heatpipe which travels in both directions; having only one heatpipe can be seen in the temperature stress testing results.

The design of the radiator leads to the logical conclusion that a front fan for the smooth operation of the card is simply assumed. My test has confirmed this and you should now at least be aware of what the PowerColor Radeon HD 7850 SCS3 actually intends: to integrate a passively cooled card effectively as a symbiont in the existing airflow of the PC system.  You can attach theoretically with good PowerTape a very quiet 120 mm fan on the card.

Likes:
- Overclocks easily to 1200/1600MHz via CCC
- Turbo Duo cooling solution
- Extremely silent, even under OC full-load
- Low temperatures and power consumption
- AMD CrossFire Support - AMD Eyefinity Support
- 4K support via HDMI and DisplayPort
- FREE BioShock Infinite and FarCry 3 Blood Dragon (limited time only)

For the price this graphics card actually performs quite good, especially when gaming at or below 1920x1080. During our testing the dual fans proved to be extremely quiet while playing games and the temperature of the Bonaire GPU remained low during our testing as well. The new design also has a sleek and sexy look to that reminds us of the Devil 13, the $1000 graphics card with two Tahiti XT cores. In addition, the quality components used in conjunction with the TurboDuo heatsink allowed us to increase the core clock by 15% and the memory by 16%, which gave the card a decent boost in performance.

PowerColor Radeon HD7790 TurboDuo Overclocked Edition of 1024 MB of 128-bit GDDR5 PCI-E — very attractive accelerator of the average and budgetary Radeon family because of the great cooling system, which not only highly effective, but also quiet because of features of design. The accelerator successfully competes with the rival in the person of GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

The R7790 is a nice addition in the lower segment of the dedicated consumer graphics card market. Merely a year after the release of the 7770 this 7790 was introduced and really, it's a nice little card that offers decent muscle to play today's games with the understanding that you need to place this product where it belongs, upper-segment entry level. And yeah, PowerColor did a really nice job with this product series.

Pros: 
- Cooling
- Low Noise
- Overclocking head room
- Performance
- Factory oeverclocked
- CorssfireX
- Looks