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June 19th, 2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 SLI Review @ PCPer

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When we first reviewed the new GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards back in March one of the few things we left short in our discussion was the possibility of running a pair of the cards in SLI.

We touched on it briefly, but only in passing and we really wanted to spend some quality time with the dual-GPU configurations to get a better feel for how the system would perform and how much actual benefit you would get going by doubling your investment cost. After all, that is what it comes right down to: is spending twice as much money really going to increase your gaming performance and experience?

After a bit of delay with other reviews and a two week journey to Japan and Taiwan, we sat down with a pair of GTX 480s, GTX 470s (and yes even the new GTX 465s that were recently launched) to do our duty and game. Sometimes it’s tough, you know?

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Author: WhyCry