***DEAL OF THE MILLENIUM - MSI GTX 470 Twin FrozR ONLY £143.99 Inc. VAT!!*****

[Quacky84]

MSI seems to give you guys some exclusive deals. =)

 

[Quacky84]

By the way I brought the 5850 Twin FrozR. I'm interested in PhysX I was going to do an hybrid setup with a GT6900 in STI/Crossfire mode. Would it be more ideal to buy this and sell the 5850? It's just would the 470 be able to handle high hardware PhysX setup on it's own?

 

[bee]

hmmmm seems like i'm gonna go with a pair of these then. i'm running a [email protected], gtx 480, 7 hdd's on a pc power and cooling 750w silencer right now and i'm pretty sure 480 sli would need a new psu, where as i should be able to get away with these on my current psu and these have a huge price advantage over the 560 and 560 2gb whilst still having slightly higher vram than 1gb, which is what i want

 

[Rroff]

750watt + GTX470 SLI with i5/7+ probably isn't a good idea. Definitely gonna have to stay away from intensive benchmarks/overclocking. Running heaven benchmark with 800MHz clocks on mine pushed the PSU right to the edge and I'm running ~100watt less than a typical equivalent i7 setup.

 

[bhavv]

This is better than the 480 deal, and I would have taken these over my 560s

 

[martynpd]

might change and get the 470

the 480 overclocks well, but id still have to spend 45 for a decent cooler, where the 470 has a decent cooler and can overclock past 480 stock levels

tough choice really. but i suppose at the moment nothing demanding out

so why not go for a 470gtx which will destroy all games till the next gen is out

 

[martynpd]

Fantastic deal on theese. Running dual gigabyte 470 oc's here, comfortably run 750 mhz on stock volts, ran them a few times at 800 mhz on 1.075, always been meaning to test how low i can get the voltage to go on them for 800.

the problem is if your slightly undervolting these cards the performance would be less, the smart thing would probably be to overclock with high volts get a 3dmark score and clock it down till you get to the point where the marks start to drop off

 

[Robert]

Oh my word...do I get two of these?

ARGH ARGH ARGH

 

[setter]

the problem is if your slightly undervolting these cards the performance would be less, the smart thing would probably be to overclock with high volts get a 3dmark score and clock it down till you get to the point where the marks start to drop off

Tbh, ive only ran a few benchmarks with them at 800, 3dm 11, heaven 2.1 etc. At a rather modest 750 mhz they breeze their way through anything i play at 1920x1200, as theyre on stock voltage they run fairly cool, and i can use auto fan which keeps them very quiet.

 

[Robert]

Gibbo - how many are you getting?

 

[Gibbo]

Gibbo - how many are you getting?

1000 units, but 560 have been sold already, as we sold 300 in one go, expected to have sold out very quickly and the price is going up Friday. So you want one at this price you gotta pre-order.

 

[Gibbo]

MSI seems to give you guys some exclusive deals. =)

As do Asus and many other vendors.

 

[Robert]

1000 units, but 560 have been sold already, as we sold 300 in one go, expected to have sold out very quickly and the price is going up Friday. So you want one at this price you gotta pre-order.

I've already pre-ordered a 480 - just considering changing to two of these.

 

[bee]

750watt + GTX470 SLI with i5/7+ probably isn't a good idea. Definitely gonna have to stay away from intensive benchmarks/overclocking. Running heaven benchmark with 800MHz clocks on mine pushed the PSU right to the edge and I'm running ~100watt less than a typical equivalent i7 setup.

all reviews i've seen show stock clocked 470 sli with the older much more power hungry 1st gen i7@4ghz ish using like 550w on furmark, i have no interest in stupid benchmarks or stress testing only real game loads, should be fine

 

[Robert]

As do Asus and many other vendors.

If I wish to get two of these over the 480 I presume I just need to contact you and quote my order number?

 

[6644kp]

MSI certainy gives excellent deals espacially with the good aftermarket cooler allowing room for oc

 

[setter]

all reviews i've seen show stock clocked 470 sli with the older much more power hungry 1st gen i7@4ghz ish using like 550w on furmark, i have no interest in stupid benchmarks or stress testing only real game loads, should be fine

Furmark does tend to up the power draw a lot, not that id advocate using it either.

 

[Zefan]

After some deliberation I have decided that I...

Will stick with the 480. Faster out of the box by quite some margin and hardly expensive at 195 quid.

I like the "brute force" approach sometimes, and this just feels right

Brilliant deal though, looks awesome

 

[Robert]

But what about getting two of them...argh.

 

[Random Guy]

Uh-oh....feel another wobble coming along

480 = 25% on average better performance across the board, but reference cooler and 35% more expensive. Power-hungry, as loud as a 280, but in that price bracket cannot be matched for performance.

470 = cheaper, cooler, 25% less of a card. Unmatched for price-performance in its bracket.

Myself = indecisive, confused, frustrated

Wobble complete! Back to a 480 for me! As has been noted above, brute force just feels right