AMD's Radeon 7790, codenamed 'Bonaire' has been in the retail channels for a few weeks now and from what I gather, it has been welcomed very kindly by the consumers with its good level of performance for its price (as shown by the number of cards that I've looked at so far). Whilst the launch is a little while ago now, there are still a few of AMD's partners that are keen for me to take a look at their cards and see how well they perform in one of the closest fought battles to be the best card that I have seen in a fair while. With different cards each giving their own edge over other brands in terms of overclocking ability, performance, cooling, temperatures and design, HIS have got their work cut out to make their card stand out over the rest. It has been a little while since I've had a play with a HIS card - the last one being a 7750 which was launched right back at the start of last year and as we will see there are always those little things that certain brands stick to; in the case of HIS, this is the use of a green/blue PCB and blue fan - its all part of their colour scheme and it certainly makes their card that bit more distinct.



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