[REVIEW] Gainward GTX 470 GS

[canna1988]

Hello,

in First sorry for my English, but i hope you will understand me.

Today i will show you the new Gainward GTX 470 GS.

As all the GTX 470, it has a Fermi Chip, that is very hot, but Gainward, as all their Golden Sample Card, use with this VGA a particular Heatsink, and new PCB.

Good think is that the Gainward PCB support the Overvolt, so also Overclockers can have fun with this VGA.

I would inform you that tou can read the complete review, with more test, here: Gainward GTX 470 GS

The specification of the GTX 470 GS are showed below:



Below you can see some Pics of the VGA (click on it for enlarge)



The Hardware configuration used for the test is:



And now you can see some Benchmark and game result.













Heat sink is very important on the new nVidia Card, because are very hot VGA. Gainward for his Golden Sample use a dual slot heatsink with two fan and 3 copper Heat Pipe. Surelly is a good solution, because can take stable the Card also with higher clock on Core and Cuda Core.

Below you can see the max frequency that i got without Overvolt:



While if I overvolt the card at 1,16V i can take stable 830 Mhz for the core frequency.



Now you can see the temperature.. i think the screen speak it self, because with the fan set at 50%, Heat Sink can take stable the core temperature at 83°C, surelly not a low value, but if we think that the reference card work at 93°C with the Fan @ 80%, we can say that this is a good result



Fan at 75%



Fan at 100%



Now you can see a video about the noise of the Heat Sink ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMC61R8tpz0

Hope you will like it.

Bye Bye and thx.