ASUS Geforce GTX470 PCI-E 2.0 1280 MB DDR5
Graphic Card ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5, Enjoy the marvelous gaming experience with ASUS ENGTX400 SERIES. ASUS Exclusive Voltage Tweak Technology for up to 50% performance. Interactive application "Design Garage" and "Supersonic Sled" bundled for real-time GPU test drive. Extreme gaming satisfaction demonstrated by DirectX 11.
Product Features :
- ASUS Exclusive Voltage Tweaker Tehnology for up to 50% performance.
- Extreme gaming satisfaction demonstrated by DirectX 11.
- 1280 MB of DDR5 memory Memory Clock: 3348 MHz; Memory Interface: 320 bit.
- DVI/VGA/HDMI/Display Port/HDTV 1080I support.
Technical Details :
- Model: ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5.
Review By Marc (USA) :
I had bought two Diamond ATI 5850
graphic card to run in crossfire mode. While the performance was great the quality of the cards wasen't. One of the two cards immediately broke down within three months and shortly after returning it for a refund the second card started giving me trouble. So I returned that card as well. Their customer service is non-existent. They don't respond to your customer support emails and never answer the phone when you call their customer service 800 number. So beware. Never buy Diamond video cards. So I decided to return to nVidia and I have no regrets. I decided to go with Asus since I've had too many Evga cards fail on me in the past. I have found that Evga doesn't have good quality cards. Anyway this Asus card rocks. It runs everything at max settings as I expected it would. nVidia still needs to tune their drivers but the card runs rock solid under Windows 7 32bit and Vista 32bit. Yes I used it in both operating systems. I personaly prefer
nVidia to ATI due to better drivers and better compatability with games, old and new. So if you want a Geforce 470 or even a 480 you can't go wrong with this card. Although Evga is sometimes cheaper by twenty dollars or so you have to watch out for what quality card you are actually getting.
Asus has proven itself in manufacturing
motherboard and I believe
video cards as well.
From a cost/performance perspective, you don't need anything beyond 2x460GTX, or it's ATI equivalent 2x6850, to have a great experince @1920x1080. However, if you want/need more power, two of these are probably what you should get, specially considering the recent price drop in reaction to ATI 6xxx release.
Anyway, great graphic card, powerful and scales very well in SLI. 1 inch or so shorter than my previou 8800 Ultra and extremely silent at idle. Under load, two different scenarios. If I just think about playing Metro 2033, fans speed up all the way and then some, producing a loud noise. It's funny because even if I am not actually playing the game, just waiting for it to finish loading, fans get very loud. Playing Black Ops, on the other way, is very silent, with all settings maxed out @1920x1080. Don't know, maybe Nvidia's help to build Metro was no that good. About heat, well, it's hot. Make sure you have a good case (I have a HAF 932 and couldn't be happier) and a mobo that allows you to place your video cards in slots 1 and 3, instead of 1 and 2.
