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The HAWK series is one of my favorite, and that's mainly because it sits towards the top of the chart when it comes to what you can do with a card. At the bottom of the stack you've got your reference card. From there we introduce an overclock and...
The HD 6870 is another great inclusion to the much loved HAWK series and you can see thanks to the extra effort that MSI has put into it that there's a fair chunk of performance on offer with the card quite often sitting between the higher end HD 69...
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With the R6870 Hawk, MSI has added some extras and improved the performance of the basic 6870. It uses a custom ‘Propeller Blade’ cooler which MSI says can deliver 20 per cent more air to the card, along with voltage and power tweaks to allow for highe...
The MS R6870 Hawk’s price of around £150 is extremely reasonable for an upgrade that can cope with games in high detail and high resolutions and should satisfy anyone with a PC in need of a gaming boost. However, since it’s at the lower end of the rang...
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Pre-overclocked cards have flooded the market for generations of graphics processing units. What makes them so appealing is their perceived added worth due to higher clock rates on the core and memory. Interestingly, this increase tends to be minimal...
Until we get a price, it's difficult to produce a final score. A respectable card nonetheless...
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Pre-overclocked cards have flooded the market for generations of graphics processing units. What makes them so appealing is their perceived added worth due to higher clock rates on the core and memory. Interestingly, this increase tends to be minimal, pro...
Until we get a price, it's difficult to produce a final score. A respectable card nonetheless...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
2016-12-29 20:53:31
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MSI is no stranger to specialized overclocked graphics card. Their most popular heatsink, the Twin Frozr II has graced many previous and current generation graphics cards for both Nvidia and AMD cards. The Twin Frozr II heatsink is one hell of a cooler...
Very cool, Highly overclockable, Great performance even on factory speeds...
Can get loud under stress...
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The recently launched GeForce GTX 560 Ti might be hogging the limelight for now, but thanks to AMD's swift response, in the form of price cuts, the Radeons are still holding their ground. And MSI is bringing further power to the Radeons, specifically the...
Effective cooler, Good overclocking performance...
Conservative clock speeds, Card needs to be tweaked to unleash true potential...
Unlocking Hidden PotentialJudging from our results, the MSI R6870 Hawk is not a card that you should use as provided out of the box. Allow us to explain.In stock form, we found that it was only marginally quicker than a reference card, which is not surpri...
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MSI R6870 Hawk is an interesting overclocker solution. It works easily at 1050/4500 MHz, and I haven't even increased voltages. The cooler is very nice: quiet and very efficient. On the downside, the package is quite humble.
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Founded 1986, Micro-Star International (MSI) has become a well-known name to computer enthusiast. They produce motherboards, video cards, barebone PCs, rackmount servers, networking equipment, and notebooks. They cross fanboy lines by manufacturing mo...
In our gameplay section the MSI R6870 Hawk was beaten by the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in its out-of-box configuration. However this video card is meant for overclocking and when it reaches its full potential it is able to slug it out with the GeForce GTX 56...
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benchmarkreviews.com Updated:
2011-10-04 00:18:16
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Graphics cards have been improving at breakneck speeds over the last little while. The Radeon HD 5000 series allowed AMD and ATI to beat NVIDIA to the punch with DirectX-11 capable video cards. NVIDIA quickly responded with the GTX 400 series which st...
Extremely Cool Performance, Newly designed Twin Frozr III cooling technology, 82 phase PWM components, Enhanced Voltage Control, great for Overclocking, Solid components, all Solid State Caps...
Can be a little loud when fan is at full throttle, Tessellation performance still lags behind Fermi...
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
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It is quite interesting to see that there is an extensive shift towards the more high-end and enthusiast products in the past year or so. It seems that next to good performance and features, the end-users like to tweak more and more as well. Well tha...
There's no way around it, the R6870 HAWK is a very impressive product. See, the reference R6870 all by itself is obviously already a great value product that offers good performance. MSI upped that up a notch by the (though petit) standard overclock.The H...
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The HAWK series is one of my favorite, and that's mainly because it sits towards the top of the chart when it comes to what you can do with a card. At the bottom of the stack you've got your reference card. From there we introduce an overclock and...
The HD 6870 is another great inclusion to the much loved HAWK series and you can see thanks to the extra effort that MSI has put into it that there's a fair chunk of performance on offer with the card quite often sitting between the higher end HD 69...
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In October last year, AMD released its second-generation Radeon HD 6800 DirectX 11 architecture, codenamed Northern Islands. The time spent between HD 5000 and HD 6000 was used to refine and fine-tune its architecture to better suit the existing 40 nm...
BIOS switch to change between normal and low-noise BIOS, Quiet, Support for voltage control via I2C, Three voltages can be changed using MSI Afterburner, Overclocked out of the box, Full size HDMI output, Low temperatures, Voltage measurement access, OCP...
CCC Overdrive limits might be too low, Overclocking potential does not impress, High Blu-ray power consumption, Lack of 3-way and 4-way CrossFire support, Silent BIOS not a quiet as it could be, Higher power draw than reference design, DirectX 11 relevanc...
MSI's HD 6870 HAWK comes with a full range of features for overclockers. The most important are software voltage control for three voltages via MSI Afterburner, voltage measurement outputs, OCP disable switch and the dual BIOS which can help to recover...
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Let's introduce the card But first we at Madshrimps would like to give our best wishes for the 25th anniversary Founded in 1986 and now one of the big manufacturers in this world. Let's go to the next 25 years full of new technology! So this time w...
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xbitlabs.com Updated:
2013-09-22 17:16:46
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New products may occasionally turn out to be no better than older ones as is the case with the VLIW4 and VLIW5 graphics architectures developed by AMD. The Radeon HD 6870 graphics card with its outdated architecture is actually quite competitive to the...
We have not learned anything particularly new from the fight between the MSI R6870 Hawk and the PowerColor HD6870 PCS+ as we saw the same results in our review of the ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU. We can again say that AMD’s old graphics architecture with VL...
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Today we'll be comparing AMD vs Nvidia, but rather than looking at the latest $1000 or $700 or even $400 cards based on the latest chipsets, we'll instead be paying attention to a pair of models that have been around for a while. There are a few reasons f...
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