EVGA GTX 470

[dustinallen82]

So, i had a XFX 9600 GSO, i upgraded to a EVGA GTS 250, i ended up not being happy with the GTS 250's performance so i sent it back and got a GTS 450, well, low and behold im not too happy with it either, so now i got that for sale and i just ordered a GTX 470, should be here tomorrow. anyways, was wondering if anyone has any experience with the GTX 470's and if so, what do u think? Also wondering if SLI really makes that big of a difference, ive never ran it but have always been curious, thanks!!

[ChampN252]

ah, my kinda thread. They are nice card. There a tech site I goto and the people love them. I know they are monster overclockers. If you are hardcore, you can put GTX 480 bios on it and probably get close to that kinda performance. This series of NVIDIA cards scale very well. You would see huge gains by getting another. Got a couple of Qs. What resolution are you gaming at? That would be a factor in adding another. You sticking with stock cooling, going aftermarket, or liquid cooled? That also determine how well it would OC and if you wanted another. Most people say one is plenty. I know they are strong cards.

Edited September 27, 2010 by ChampN252

[dustinallen82]

ah, my kinda thread. They are nice card. There a tech site I goto and the people love them. I know they are monster overclockers. If you are hardcore, you can put GTX 480 bios on it and probably get close to that kinda performance. This series of NVIDIA cards scale very well. You would see huge gains by getting another. Got a couple of Qs. What resolution are you gaming at? That would be a factor in adding another. You sticking with stock cooling, going aftermarket, or liquid cooled? That also determine how well it would OC and if you wanted another. Most people say one is plenty. I know they are strong cards.

i play at 1920x1080, as of now im going with stock cooler, my case stays very cool right now, but from what ive read these put off a lot of heat. I have been planning on going to liquid sometime next year when i start my new build.

[ChampN252]

You picked the perfect card. Adding a second would guarantee there is no game you couldn't play. Liquid cooled would be icing on the cake. I personally wanted to go SLI GTX 480, but my PC crapped out, so I'm going back to car audio for a now.

On an off note, I wanted to play the game Metro 2033 so bad. I need a PC capable of doing that. With two 470s, you could whip it.

[BulletInjection]

DX11 is nice and im sure you could pretty much run everything out there at that resolution on some decent settings. I run everything on high with my 9800GTX+'s in SLI at 1920x1080 on a 32" monitor with a second 22" display. You can gain around 60% performance from adding a second card, depending on the application. Some games don't utilize SLI at all and you may see worse FPS some you may gain from 30 up to 40 FPS and then other you will jump from 100FPS to 200+

[ChampN252]

I was so close to getting those cards before my rig dead. I know the 9800GTX perform really well. I know they are nasty in SLI.

[dustinallen82]

You picked the perfect card. Adding a second would guarantee there is no game you couldn't play. Liquid cooled would be icing on the cake. I personally wanted to go SLI GTX 480, but my PC crapped out, so I'm going back to car audio for a now.

On an off note, I wanted to play the game Metro 2033 so bad. I need a PC capable of doing that. With two 470s, you could whip it.

ive just got metro 2033, its ok, the gts 450 i have now seems to handle it decent, settings arent maxed out though

[dustinallen82]

You picked the perfect card. Adding a second would guarantee there is no game you couldn't play. Liquid cooled would be icing on the cake. I personally wanted to go SLI GTX 480, but my PC crapped out, so I'm going back to car audio for a now.

On an off note, I wanted to play the game Metro 2033 so bad. I need a PC capable of doing that. With two 470s, you could whip it.

lol, thats kinda odd, cause i blew up the motor in my car so decided to go back to computers, lol

[Slinky]

sli makes a huge difference, but you wont need it. 1920x1080 isn't too taxing.

edit: running metro on full settings is not cheap. any other game youll be fine.

Edited September 29, 2010 by Slinky