VERDICT: A capable card with an innovative custom cooler.
FOR: Runs cooler than most GTX 470s, flip fan design makes it easy to clean.
AGAINST: Very high power consumption.
It’s a known fact that Nvidia’s GeForce
GTX 470 and 480 based GPUs
heat up to a great extent. With over
3-billion transistors embedded into the
GPU what more can you expect?
The Galaxy GTX 470 is a little diff erent
from the crowd since everything other
than the GPU is customized by Galaxy.
Moreover the redesigned PCB is also
an inch smaller than Nvidia’s reference
design. Furthermore the card comes with
a Flip fan design which allows you to
clean the heatsink and the fan without
having you to open up the shroud. The
rear supports two dual-link DVI port along
with a mini HDMI port.
Powering up the card is a 12-pin
connector — a minimum 550 W PSU will
be required to breathe life into this card.
The core speeds have been bumped up
to a small degree. What you get is a core
operating at 625 MHz while the memory
and shaders are clocked at 837 MHz and
1250 MHz respectively.
Crysis Warhead returned a playable
score of 49 fps with the resolution kept
at 1680 x 1050 (2xAA). Just Cause 2 also
returned very playable frame rates of 48
fps at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 – this
was achieved with AA disabled while still
maintaining Very High settings.
SPECIFICATIONS
Rs 23,000
www.galaxytech.com
GPU: Nvidia GTX 470; Stream Processors: 448; Process:
40 nm; Memory: 1.2 GB DDR5; Core | Memory speed:
625 MHz | 837 MHz; Video output: Dual-DVI, Mini
HDMI.
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