august 20 2010 review by guru3d

The GTX 470 SOC needs two 6-pin PEG connectors and a 550 Watt PSU is recommended. The two SLI fingers allow a three cards setup in SLI. The factory overclock is 700MHz (607 MHz reference) for the GPU core and 1400 MHz (1212 MHz) for the shader clock, the GDDR5 RAM has the same speed as the reference model.

Conclusion: This card has heat levels hovering at roughly 80 degrees Celsius under full load, yet managed to create a near inaudible noise level. A lot of heat is dumped inside the PC and is not properly exhausted. The custom cooler is certainly really good and you'll notice severe improvement in cooling, your enclosure will will need a good airflow with this card.

Overclocking: The GPU Core Clock was OCed @ 800 MHz and the @ 4000 MHz.

Test Setup:

• CPU : Intel Core i7 965
• Display : Dell 3007WFP
• Motherboard : eVGA X58 Classified
• PSU : 1200 Watt
• RAM : 3x2GB DDR3 Corsair
• Windows 7 x64

Benchmarks: 3D Mark Vantage, Anno 1404, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Dirt 2, Crysis WARHEAD, Far Cry 2, Metro 2033, Power consumption.

Compared to:

GeForce GTX	ATI Radeon HD
GTS 250 1024MB 275 896M260 SP16 285 295 460 1024MB 460 768MB 460 768MB SLi OC    465 1024MB 465 SLi 470 470 SLi 470 SOC 480 1024MB SLi 480 1536MB	4850 512MB 4870 1024MB 4870 X2 2048MB     4890 1024MB 5750 1024MB 5770 1024MB 5830 1024MB 5830 1024MB CF 5850 1024MB 5850 CF 5870 1024MB 5870 CF 5970 2048MB