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

Card today succeeded in achieving the equation of performance versus price significantly, it provides performance very well within the category intended for gamers and enjoy the advantages and techniques of architectural GCN with excellent ability to break the speed has reached a frequency of 1260MHz for the core, the highest frequency cards for the seventh generation of our cooling system well, which make them significantly closer than the performance of HD7950 card and go beyond it in some situations with the lifting frequency, with this price difference

After today's performance offered, the PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 PCS + hold must be said that the 3D performance almost reached the level of a GeForce GTX 580 is.
It also provides an excellent result in the noise - at least in idle mode. Here we are dealing with a cooler that can shine with approximately 13 dB (A).

This makes the PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 PCS + the quietest card with active cooling fan, which we have ever tested.

‧3D Gaming
‧Very good value performance per watt
‧Good overclocking potential
‧Low power consumption at rest
‧Silent cooling system
‧Support for DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.x + Support Eyefinity 2.0 to 6 monitors

The distance to the reference versions will also ensure that the card of PowerColor sometimes quite clearly is close to the Radeon HD 7950 and even the GeForce GTX 580 is matched. For a map of the middle class very good.

The PowerColor PCS+ 7870 in particular is a very impressive card, and for those who want great gaming performance without dropping a fortune, this is a card to get. It looks fabulous, beats a GTX 580, is very well priced, and offers an excellent overall package.

The PCS+ HD7870 is fairly typical of what will be launching; it’s a factory overclocked card with a heatpipe based open air cooler. PowerColor has pushed the card to 1100MHz core, 4.9GHz memory, representing a 100MHz (10%) overclock and a much more mild 100MHz (2%) memory overclock. Given the very high overclockability we’ve seen in the entire Radeon HD 7000 series, PowerColor is one of the partners looking to take advantage of that headroom to stand out from the pack.

If you want something quieter, though, while also a bit faster, then the PowerColor PCS+ version we've got here today really stands out.

Solid in terms of pure performance but a little lacking in other areas, notably power-draw and noise, the PowerColor HD 7870 Myst straddles a thin sliver of middle ground that limits its appeal to those who want to spend less than £200 on their next graphics card and don't mind sacrificing all-round excellence for pure gaming speed.

PCS+ Myst card is a solid product with decent build quality and the usual branded parts, like Elpida memory, used throughout. The use of a metal shroud is a nice touch and we like the selection of display outputs which should suit most consumers.
When it comes to value the PowerColor PCS+ 7870 Myst is hard to fault. It is cheaper than the comparable NVIDIA part and had a decent gaming bundle which includes a free copy of Far Cry 3 and money off the latest Medal of Honor.