Thursday, May 6th 2010
Galaxy GTX 470 GC Version Graphics Card Unveiled
Galaxy is ready with its 100% non-reference design graphics card based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 GPU, the Galaxy GTX 470 GC Version. The card makes use of Galaxy engineering with both the PCB and cooler designs. The card features a blue PCB, which is 0.5 inch shorter than the reference design (at 9 inches), and pushes the two 6-pin power connectors to the rear-end of the card. The cooling assembly uses a large aluminum fin array cooling all vital parts, covered with a silvery plastic found on action figures. Galaxy innovated a little with the fan, which can be partly detached from the rest of the cooler to help clean it and the heatsink under it.
The card is overclocked out of the box, with speeds of 625 MHz / 1250 MHz / 837 or 3348 MHz (effective), for the core, shader, and memory, respectively. Like every other GTX 470 based card, it is DirectX 11 compliant, and has 448 CUDA cores, 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 320-bit wide interface, and is 2/3/4-way SLI capable. Display connectivity includes two DVI-D, and HDMI with integrated audio. A test by the source shows that with this cooling solution, the GTX 470 GC Version manages to keep the GPU at around 88 degrees Celsius with Furmark load. It is expected that the card will be available in the US as early as by tomorrow.
Source:
VR-Zone
The card is overclocked out of the box, with speeds of 625 MHz / 1250 MHz / 837 or 3348 MHz (effective), for the core, shader, and memory, respectively. Like every other GTX 470 based card, it is DirectX 11 compliant, and has 448 CUDA cores, 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 320-bit wide interface, and is 2/3/4-way SLI capable. Display connectivity includes two DVI-D, and HDMI with integrated audio. A test by the source shows that with this cooling solution, the GTX 470 GC Version manages to keep the GPU at around 88 degrees Celsius with Furmark load. It is expected that the card will be available in the US as early as by tomorrow.
51 Comments on Galaxy GTX 470 GC Version Graphics Card Unveiled
I almost expected to see a mighty max underneath the fan lid thing.
Not too bad looking either.
The fan hinge goes together with it, like s space ship hatch opening :) Don't know if I like it, but it's different that's for sure!
But the cooler under looks like it means business, so you could just rip the top part of (and give it to your kid, if you have one to play around) and put a proper fan on top of it.
Dad gets a toy, kid get a toy, fun for whole family! :laugh:
Btw. anyone else think about getting some damaged Vapor-X graphic card and use that cooler on GTX 470/480? :D
sorry I mean : SEXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
No really, seems as if form and function make sense sometimes! Clever and beautiful in other words, or as the poet said: NICEEEEEEEEEEE AND SEXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HAHA
and still to hot
and galaxy is crap
evga/sus/gigabyte/xfx ftw
gigabyte?
crap!
lol
point of view ftw
that company has the most rma's
xd i saw once an rma statistic of all brands (ati/nvidia)
lol and sus must be asus xd my stupid keyboard(I hate INSERT key)
On-topic... that shroud is FUGLY! It really does look like a Mighty Max toy. I generally like blue PCBs, but for some reason, I just dont think the color scheme is great. However, ingenious design for cleaning the HS, and good to see some non-reference designs being released for Fermi.... wonder how the temps would be for this...?