HIS Radeon HD 6970 MIX 2GB Graphics Card Review

AcousticsNoise is generally the bain of most consumers lives and in the hope of finding the quietest operation, we feel it’s necessary to show you the audio level of components. We use the same components throughout this test and use a sound level meter to record the audio level of the system with a passive graphics card installed. Once we have the level recorded with the passive card, we continue to change the graphics card for the one that we are testing. Due to us having the audio level recorded before installation, it gives us a guide to work with and shows that anything over our initial level is an audio gain.

When testing the audio levels of the card, we find that at idle it performed the quietest but only by a very small amount, whilst at load was a similar story, but did show for some good comparisons against the 6870 IceQ from the same company.