The GeForce GTX 480 is the first of NVIDIA’s new Fermi cards that we had the pleasure of playing with and it’s one molten beast of a graphics card. In our benchmarks it has regularly hit the 90°C mark and took a layer or two of skin off our unprotected fingers.

Its little brother, the GTX 470 is a far more sedate fella, in heat terms at least. So ripe for a bit of judicious overclocking then?

In our review the GTX 470 proved itself to be an awfully impressive card, capably outperforming the vanilla Radeon HD 5870 that it has been directly pitched up against in almost every benchmark available.

Even at full load though the cutdown GF 100 GPU inside doesn’t reach anywhere near the heat of the faster GTX 480. That may be down to a more sensible fan profile management in the drivers than on the bigger card. Just don’t expect it to be quiet runner when it’s really making an effort in the cooling stakes.

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