GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews

[Svnth]

If I can equate noise levels with some of the cards I have gone through in recent months, I'd put noise output at something like this from loudest to quietest.

Palit 9600 GSO (my mistake for ever putting it in my system)
GTX 295
HD 4870 (with the revised fan speed profile)
HD 4890
HD 4870 X2
GTX 480
GTX 280
GTX 470
GTX 285 / GTX 275
HD 5970
HD 5870
HD 5850


Then again, we all have to remember that certain noises bother some people more than others.

Given all the questions about noise levels, and the uncertainty of [H] videos, it would be interesting if you would do a test comparing all the GPUs you mentioned, and actually test actual Decibels from, say 2 locations, across a couple games. Or maybe just do it for a few of the cards (the 4xx and the 5xxx)?

Would you be willing to do that? I'm sure people would like to see the data for actual games, not a synthetic test like Furmark (especially if AMD throttles this application, which alters results).