GTX 470 Owners

[EarthDog]

A 470 can eat oblivion alive even with most mod packs...If that 22" is only 1680x1050, overclock your CPU.

 

[CDdude55]

I ran x2 GTX 470's in SLI on my 19'' monitor lol. I could of easily maxed out the majority of games, but really, even one of these cards can do that at 1920x1080.

Eventually the second card died, but it made little difference at the screen size i run at.

 

[ZentiX]

Why bother getting another one with a 22" monitor?

Going to buy new monitors, maybe 2 or 3 120Hz monitors form Acer.

 

[micropage7]

At over 45dB(100% fan) per card, it is loud imo.

Many people did note that replacing the thermal paste gave significant temp drops(5º+).

The fan profile is something that I've noticed alot of people talking about. Many people have said that a custom fan profile is much better than stock. So it sounds like you've got the right mind set already.

personally i dont mind if it sounds little bit louder, if just feels like youre riding v8 engine with loud engine

yap, i replaced the stock thermal paste to cooler master paste and it help to reduce the heat, i plan to lap the base too, but maybe later

 

[theonedub]

On with the AC cooler, and turn up the pc. I went form 50-60C (stock cooler) to 30-35C Idle, and 80-90C (stock cooler) 100% load to 40-45C. This on Stock clocks. And after some OC my card never hits over 60-70C 100% load. And i have a 140mm fan blowing air @ GPU. And i think i'm gona get a GTX 470 to run in SLi. Great performance and it is gona be long time before i chang

After installing this cooler the only 2 issues I had with this card (temps and fan noise) are gone. Its a really nice cooler, I would rec it to anyone looking to improve their cards.

 

[Stak]

i see people with clocks of 800+ mhz while i can't even get over 760 or something with 1050 voltage without seeing artifacs and such. whats wrong here?

 

[EarthDog]

Poor clocking card...?

Got the fan cranked to keep temps low?

 

[EwX]

Hi, i can't decide what to get, MSI GTX470 TWIN FROZR II or Gigabyte GTX460 1GB SO.
Oc'ed GTX460 1GB can reach stock GTX470 performance,but oc'ed GTX470 gets as much performace boost as gtx460 does. I would overclock to the max either of these cards,but the thing is,that GTX470 consumes allmost double the power (compared to gtx460 1gb) and i don't know if that additiniol power consumption is worth the extra performance from GTX470.
I just recently spotted MSI GTX470 TWIN FROZR II available in my location and i got confused,because it looks like a very good GTX470 version in terms of good cooling,quite operation and probably good OC potential
Price difference is small ~50usd

 

[EarthDog]

If you can afford the 470, get the 470....

 

[Cratzky]

Hi, i can't decide what to get, MSI GTX470 TWIN FROZR II or Gigabyte GTX460 1GB SO.
Oc'ed GTX460 1GB can reach stock GTX470 performance,but oc'ed GTX470 gets as much performace boost as gtx460 does. I would overclock to the max either of these cards,but the thing is,that GTX470 consumes allmost double the power (compared to gtx460 1gb) and i don't know if that additiniol power consumption is worth the extra performance from GTX470.
I just recently spotted MSI GTX470 TWIN FROZR II available in my location and i got confused,because it looks like a very good GTX470 version in terms of good cooling,quite operation and probably good OC potential
Price difference is small ~50usd

Get the 470, its alot better in terms of performance ,tessellation , etc, it also got bigger memory bandwidth bus then the 460 (320bit vs 256bit). It also overclocks very good, but not as good as the 460 which u can raise like 400mhz on the core or something like that, but with the 470, u can easily take it over 480 performance without voltage increase, and with voltage increase u can get it almost to 570 performance, add epic watercooling and u can get it to 580 performance. Ive seen 1 guy bring hes 470 up to stock 580 performance on another forum, with watercooling. He used max voltage.

 

[EwX]

I thought GTX470 had lesser potential. I was wrong.
TBH i don't really mind higher power consumption, i really just want to get as much performance within my budget as i can.
It looks that Twin Frozr 2 deals really well with GTX470 heat output and it should be silent.

It looks GTX470 will be the card to replace my oldschool 6600GT

 

[Cratzky]

I thought GTX470 had lesser potential. I was wrong.
TBH i don't really mind higher power consumption, i really just want to get as much performance within my budget as i can.
It looks that Twin Frozr 2 deals really well with GTX470 heat output and it should be silent.

It looks GTX470 will be the card to replace my oldschool 6600GT

Well, its different for all cards.... i can get my card running stable at 780mhz core and 3800mhz on the memory with stock volt, while some others can run 800mhz+ with stock volt, and some other guys cant even reach 750mhz with stock volt before artifacting. Its the same for all cards, but it sure has potential.

Coming from a gts250 myself, this card overclocks like a real beast compared to my 250 which had serious problems reaching 100mhz overclock on the core and the memory could barely not be touched...

I also have set up a personal fan profile so my card never hits 75c under the most demanding benchmarks i can throw at it...... when gaming it sits around 60-65c, and thats with the stock cooler.... And with the case side closed, its barely hearable.

I think most people that complain about heat, aint using any additional fans in their case and/or lack the brains to set up a own fan profile (which really aint that hard in afterburner or evga precision).

You will notice an insane bump in graphical performance goin from a 6600gt

 

[EwX]

,,You will notice an insane bump in graphical performance goin from a 6600gt ''

I imagine i will
I got stuck with 6600GT ever since my HD4850 died and that happened a few months ago.
Somewhat funny story, i bought 8600GTS as replacement for my dead card and when i tried to remove 8600GTS heatsink it took off with a small piece of GPU/core itself and i ended up with two dead cards and 6600GT :|
Thermal paste on 8600GTS was like super glue and thermal paste mixture. First time i saw thermal compound like that and it's first time i broke GPU. I'm happy that NVIDIA puts now IHS on their GPU's.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Seein from 3dmark11, GTX470 > 5870