Package and Product Photos
Package looks interesting and it has roaring lion on the front the same as HIS RX480 Roaring which we had a chance to review some time ago and was also used in FunkyKit’s modding projects.
Box contents:
- HIS Graphics Card
- Driver Disc
- Quick Installation Guide
Our review sample box includes the same as retail package. There is everything we need to install RX460 iCooler graphics card. The card itself doesn’t need much. Just use PCIE x8 or x16 slot and install drivers. If you are using Windows 10 then system will make it for you as in Windows database are WHQL AMD drivers. Of course better if we update the drivers as AMD is adding improvements quite often.
HIS RX460 Slim iCooler is single slot card what is for sure good option for all who are building small computers or wish to use more than one graphics card ( or other card ) in their small PC.
On the heatsink is already well known roaring lion. It looks great on silver, aluminum cooler.
Cooler itself is quite simple. It doesn’t have any heatpipes as we used to see in many higher series but it’s enough to keep low temperature of RX460 GPU. Base of the cooler is made of copper.
A Closer Look
On the core was a bit too much TIM for my taste but temperatures were good. Couple of quick tests gave us about the same results as on Arctic MX4 thermal paste which we were using later. It’s not the best but well performing TIM.
HIS RX460 Slim iCooler has three display connectors: DVI-D, Display Port and HDMI. More detailed info is in the table on the previous page of this review. What I wish to add is that VGA/D-Sub connection is not supported but there are 3rd party dongles which will help if you are still using monitor with that connector.
On the PCB we can find three phase power section what is not much but perfectly fine for low power graphics card like RX460. It’s also possible to overclock this card without any issues. During full load we couldn’t see any coil whining what sometimes happens on other cards.
HIS has used Elpida IC which you can see on the last photo. These chips are popular in cheaper graphics cards but are not worse than any other IC. All have the same base specification and even if you’ve heard that Samsung or Hynix is overclocking better then in this case it won’t make any difference as maximum memory frequency is the same and is limited by BIOS and software. Other thing is that this graphics card is not designed for higher overclocking, even though it comes already at higher than reference settings.
2 comments
DOOM only in OpenGL is ridiculous.
Wow the first HIS Graphics card that doesn’t look bad! Good job on this one.