With an uprated cooling setup, higher clock speeds and a free game, the HIS 5830 Turbo hopes to provide more value for money with extra performance and additional software.

I think it’s safe to say that the 5830 has been received with mixed opinions from both reviewers and end users.

However, for the most part, this is based on the first drivers available for the card as well as on the default reference cards. Since AMD are leaving it up to the vendors to create their own mix with the 5830 GPU, we are now starting to see various different cards appear with the 5830 at their heart.

Many of these vendors, including today’s review supplier, have decided to increase the clock speeds of the core and memory for their respective design of 5830 card, perhaps in the hopes to alleviating some of the disappointment folks had when they realized that the 5830 doesn’t quite perform as well as hoped at the price point it’s been released at it. AMD have since managed to score a deal where by you can now get Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with the cards, so considering that many feel the 5830 is over priced, if you’re looking to get one, it’s going to be especially important to look at the extras you’re getting.

HIS have sent over their Platinum package HIS 5830 Turbo, supplied with extra software, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (a $60 game) and it comes pre-overclocked above the recommended AMD specs. The HIS 5830 Turbo also sports their iCooler cooling setup which we really liked on the 4xxx HIS cards we reviewed a while back, so let’s open the box shall we?(…)

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