HIS today unveils its HD 4890 iCooler x4 1GB (256bit) GDDR5 PCIe, the best performance 4890 GPU combined with the high performance dual slot iCooler x4. It delivers great in-game performance on a single GPU HIS graphics accelerator.

iCooler x4 features a high performance dual slot cooler. It comes with four 6mm copper heatpipes that transfer heat effectively from the GPU to the internal fins around.

Unfortunately the clock frequencies were left alone as the card is clocked at 850 MHz on the core and has a memory clock 3.9Gbps / MHz. Pricing remains TBA.

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Some of you guys are still on the good old AGP bus ? Well, HIS today unveils the HD 4670 IceQ 1GB (128bit) DDR3 AGP, a decent performance 4670 AGP card with IceQ cooling technology, and heck it now comes with native HDMI output.

Chipset features:

* 320 stream processing units
* 128-bit memory interface
* 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
* High-speed 128-bit HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering
* ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
* Built-in Native HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
* Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu-ray and HD DVD
* Dynamic geometry acceleration
* Game physics processing capability

The HIS Radeon HD 4600 Series graphics cards boast up to 3 times the performance of the previous generation of GPUs. pricing is to be announced, but we expect it to hover at the 60 EUR segment.

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In the world of graphics you are usually stuck with x16 mechanical (and electrical) add in boards for your GPU love. This makes it a little rough on many an HTPC builder.

Sure you can get a half-height card and even ones with an extra tang for the low profile cases but unless you want to shell out a ton of cash you are still getting an x16 card.

Thankfully, that all may be changing; HIS and Club3D are offering x1 PCI-e cards that won’t break the bank.

HIS is offering an ATi Radeon HD 4350 with 512MB DDR2 (Core clock 600MHz Memory Clock 800MHz). The 4350 is a great card for and HTPC or for anyone looking to run just business graphics and features DVI and HDMI out as well as the typical VGA. If you go half height you still get to keep HDMI and DVI.

From Club3D we find an offering from the green team. This is the 8400 GS, again another card with a small foot print in terms of usage. It does not feature an HDMI port only DVI and TV. It also only has 256MB of memory. The benefit to the 8400 GS is passive cooling.

As far as choices between these two the HIS 4350 is better for an HTPC but the 8400 GS can keep your rig quieter. Both cards seem tailor made for the Atom platform as many existing ITX Atom system boards only have a PCI-e x1 slot. A couple of dollars in this area can get you some extra horse power in any Atom Based Nettop or HTPC.

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An Asian website somehow snugged a photo of the Radeon HD 4770 that HIS is going to release sometime soon. This 40nm RV740 based graphics card features a dual slot cooler, comes with 128-bit gDDR5 memory, two DVI outputs and has support for CrossfireX.

If rumors are correct (and of course they are), then cards like these will match Radeon HD 4850 performance, at price of under 99 USD.