The Test

As the N470GTX ships at the reference clockspeeds of the GTX 470, we’re going to skip looking at reference performance. If you’d like to see the performance of a reference-clocked GTX 470, please skip ahead to our look at GTX 470 SLI performance, where the reference GTX 470 is listed among our results. Do note that due to the varying VIDs of GTX 400 series cards, power/temperature/noise data is not the same, as you will see in our overclocking section.

Also, after much demand and to go with the look at GTX 470 SLI performance, we have also added 5850CF performance to our charts.

CPU: Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz
Motherboard: Intel DX58SO (Intel X58)
Chipset Drivers: Intel 9.1.1.1015 (Intel)
Hard Disk: OCZ Summit (120GB)
Memory: Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 3 x 2GB (7-7-7-20)
Video Cards: AMD Radeon HD 5970
AMD Radeon HD 5870
AMD Radeon HD 5850
AMD Radeon HD 5830
AMD Radeon HD 5770
AMD Radeon HD 5750
AMD Radeon HD 4890
AMD Radeon HD 4870 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 4850
AMD Radeon HD 3870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
MSI GeForce N470GTX
Video Drivers: NVIDIA ForceWare 197.13
NVIDIA ForceWare 257.15 Beta
NVIDIA ForceWare 258.80 Beta
AMD Catalyst 10.3a
AMD Catalyst 10.7
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Index MSI N470GTX: Power, Temperature, Noise, & Overclocking
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  • Harm Nano - Sunday, May 8, 2011 - link

    GTX470 SLI RUNS HOT NO MORE ! INSTALLED TWO ZALMAN 3000N COOLERS , TAKING ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT, WELL WORTH THE THE MONEY , TEMPS - BEFORE THE ZALMANS ---KOMBUSTOR 96C -100C LESS THAN A MIN! - FANS AT A 100 % ,LOUD! ,CRYSIS HIGH 80C- TO LOW 90 C, FANS AT 100% AS WELL -- ZALMANS INSTALLED -TEMPS NOW KOMBUSTOR 79C-83C AFTER 5 MIN STEADY AS A ROCK, CRYSIS 67C TO 76C , THE ONLY THING LOUD NOW IS THE CPU COOLER, AT IDLE THE CPU AND THE TWO ZALAMAN ARE AT THE SAME TEMPS 39C [ AMD CORE 23C] , GPU ARE MANUAL SET IN ASUS M4N98TD EVO, MOTHERBOARD BIOS TO RUN MANUAL SET, LOW SET AND HIGH SET ,ON A COOL DAY ,RPM ARE A LOW 1400 ,ON A HOT DAY 2800 TO 3200 RPM , AS AUTO AS YOU CAN GET , COOL AND QUIET , TO FIT SLI ,TWO THINGS, A MUST HAVE ,RIGHT MB ,ASUS M4N98TD EVO AND THE RIGHT CASE ,TEMPEST EVO.

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