You have to love competition. With the release of AMD’s affordable HD 6870 and 6850 graphics cards, the folks over at NVIDIA decided to respond with a move of their own. In case you missed it, the same day the Radeons launched, NVIDIA dropped the price of their mid-range GeForce products to gain a competitive [...]

Last week we took a look at the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW and I was pretty darn impressed with the capabilities of the GeForce GTX 470. Granted, that particular card is the top dog overclocked version from EVGA and not your vanilla reference edition. Keeping with the tradition of testing the top [...]

Water cooling has been a long time favorite way of keeping my CPU’s nice and cool. Back since the day I built my first Intel Q6600 I have had my system under water. Despite the risks involved, I do prefer it to traditional air coolers. Even after I sprung a leak in my reservoir, I [...]

When a new graphics card usually launches, we usually end up reviewing the reference version and according to out conversations with vendors, it’s usually this bone stock product that most people buy. On the other hand, overclocked and reengineered editions are great for marketing materials but their sales numbers are somewhat lackluster. This is probably [...]

Finally, the VF3000F is for the end users who wants to cool their latest VGA cards from NVIDIA. The Zalman’s first Dual Fan VGA cooler promises you for the maximum performance with less noise. The VF3000F is specially designed for the Fermi Series from nVidia (GTX480/470/465) and comes with the dedicated RAM/FET Heatsinks to maximize [...]

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 [...]

GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, introduces a powerful new addition to its Super Overclock Series: GTX 470 SOC (GV-N470SO-13I). To qualify for Super Overclock Series, a GPU must go through GIGABYTE’s innovative GPU Gauntlet Sorting process and it must be equipped with Ultra Durable VGA or VGA+ boards. Designed specifically for [...]

Although the NVIDIA GeForce 400 series has been out for about 2 months now, it’d seem the jury is still out on whether or not the series is a success. Some will tell you the GeForce GTX 480 is a power-hungry expensive GPU that failed to deliver, while others claim it lived up to the [...]

As you know, not all GF100 GPUs are produced without defects. The nondefective ones are used in GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards; those that only have a few billion bad transistors or so have corresponding GPU parts disabled and are used in making GeForce GTX 470 products. But there are also GPUs that only have [...]

Sparkle Computer announced a pair of new graphics cards based on the GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 465 graphics processors, and sporting Sparkle’s own design as far as the cooler goes. The SXX4701280D5-NM (GTX 470) and SXX4651024D5-NM (GTX 465) feature a GPU cooler that makes use of a dense aluminum fin array to which [...]

It should come as no surprise, and has been rumoured for a while now. The first GF104 cards, the GTX 460s, had 1 full cluster, or 48 shaders disabled. Based on yields, a faster GF104 was speculated, possibly as a replacement for GTX 470. Fudzilla reports that NVIDIA is indeed planning a full 384 SP [...]

Point of View known for its range of NVIDIA based 3D Graphics cards, Netbooks and other PC products, announces today a brand new line up of Factory overclocked Graphics cards. The POINT OF VIEW TGT Series are hand selected high end models of individually overclocked Graphics Cards. For a couple of weeks a specialized European [...]

Palit GeForce GTX 465When NVIDIA released their GeForce GTX 480 the heat levels had to be compensated for somehow, NVIDIA opting for a cooling solution that is rather loud. With the release of the GeForce GTX 470 things had gotten a fraction better, but the GPU was still putting out lots of heat and as [...]

What do you want in a premium graphics card? We bet that most folk would want it to be fast, cool, quiet and overclockable, for starters. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 fills some of that criteria but the reference cooler is found wanting with respect to under-load noise and temperatures. We’re now seeing a steady trickle [...]

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 [...]

Although the NVIDIA GeForce 400 series has been out for about 2 months now, it’d seem the jury is still out on whether or not the series is a success. Some will tell you the GeForce GTX 480 is a power-hungry expensive GPU that failed to deliver, while others claim it lived up to the [...]

Gigabyte displayed its high-end non-reference GeForce GTX 470 based graphics card, the GTX 470 SuperOverclock (GV-N470SO-13I). The card is built using Gigabyte’s Ultra Durable VGA Plus (UDV+) technology, and makes use of a 12+2 phase VRM, because of which the PCB is about as long as a GTX 480. The GPU and memory chips used [...]

It looks like it is going to possible to incorporate dual GF100 GPUs on a single PCB. At least, that’s what the folks over at Galaxy Tech are dreaming up and we got a glimpse of it during Computex 2010. With the heat output and power requirements of NVIDIA’s GF100 graphics chip, a lot of [...]

The rumor mill is always speculating on what products are coming to market along with products that will be killed off. The rumor mill of late has been speculating that NVIDIA might be ready to end the GTX 470′s run despite it being new. NVIDIA plans to keep GTX 470 going The Tech Report reports [...]

With over four hundred entries, our giveaway of the MSI N470 GTX is more popular than dry ice at an overclocking convention. Before we announce the winner though, we chucked this card into our gaming PC to see what this baby could do. Read on to see why the 470 GTX solves all of the [...]