GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews

[Eastcoasthandle]

You quoted yourself "representative". It is unfortunate, but I have more and more reason to believe nvidia has a bigger hand in these reviews than many would like to believe.






I checked the colors on the back of the 480 and the 4870, both are the same shade, exact same color code. The quality of the image might have something to do with that though.

You can clearly see from these images just how hot the area around the 480 is. The bottom of the case is already showing colors reaching 70°C

Not too surprising to be honest, but considering that while the 4870 maybe outputting the same kind of temps in certain areas it certainly does not match the overall heat output of the 480. In fact, nothing does. Aside from 2x5970 in crossfire maybe.
The 480 has two sources of awesome heat: VRMs and GPU.

Check out the motherboard area around the gtx480... well into the 80's there. Ouch.

dama is correct here and I believe the tests are completely faulty.
480 shows 97.6C with which heat also found at the bottom of the case close to 70C according to the graph

470 shows 92.9C with heat at the bottom of the case close to 60C

4870 shows 107.8C with little heat at the bottom of the case. This either shows that the test conducted is faulty or some fan (somewhere) wasn't working at the time the test was done. The same goes for the 4850 with their temps.

5870 shows 86.7C with some heat at the bottom of the case around 50C.

So what we have is completely useless results showing lower C temps making more of impact of the PC case then higher C temps. This makes the results invalid IMO.