Galaxy GTX 470 GC Version Graphics Card

[RavenXXX2]

The fan/HS cleaning idea is a nice touch.

Galaxy is ready with its 100% non-reference design graphics card based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 GPU, the Galaxy GTX 470 GC Version. The card makes use of Galaxy engineering with both the PCB and cooler designs. The card features a blue PCB, which is 0.5 inch shorter than the reference design (at 9 inches), and pushes the two 6-pin power connectors to the rear-end of the card. The cooling assembly uses a large aluminum fin array cooling all vital parts, covered with a silvery plastic found on action figures. Galaxy innovated a little with the fan, which can be partly detached from the rest of the cooler to help clean it and the heatsink under it.

The card is overclocked out of the box, with speeds of 625 MHz / 1250 MHz / 837 or 3348 MHz (effective), for the core, shader, and memory, respectively. Like every other GTX 470 based card, it is DirectX 11 compliant, and has 448 CUDA cores, 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 320-bit wide interface, and is 2/3/4-way SLI capable. Display connectivity includes two DVI-D, and HDMI with integrated audio. A test by the source shows that with this cooling solution, the GTX 470 GC Version manages to keep the GPU at around 88 degrees Celsius with Furmark load. It is expected that the card will be available in the US as early as by tomorrow.

 

[Rroff]

Not sure what to make of that it looks a little bit too much like a cheap plastic toy :S whats with all the rubbish GPU shroud designs lately.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Looks are not very good this is true, but the ability to clean your fan and HS is a nice touch. I think third party cooling solutions would do a better job keeping the card cool, 88c in furmark is nothing to get excited about.

 

[drunkenmaster]

This is all getting too civil, I agree with you both.

WHen I first saw a far off shot I thought, might be a decent fan, then a closer up shot the whole thing really does look very cheap and plasticy.

The removeable fan is a gimick largely because, well, half of the heatsink is still covered so you can't clean a huge amount of it. Though in fairness a large portion of dust builds up under the fans fins rather than all through the sink.

Why both AMD/Nvidia make shrouds that aren't removeable without removing the entire sink I can't even begin to fathom. A plastic shroud that is easily removable without removing the sink is not hard to design, would be far easier to clean all around and very easy for cheap improved cooling, remove the shround and tie a fan to it.

Far too many 3rd party coolers are crap, I'm completely unimpressed by the Vapour-x cooling ability over the stock cooler, different, better fan, yet still rather poo. Zalman/Prolimatech are cheap, produced in larger quantity for "stock cards" would cost far less and really no more than a stock sink anyway and well, they cut 5870 temps in half with less noise.

 

[3t3P]

might look cool if you dry brushed paints on it to make it look like 'space rust' lol, a distressed graphics card older than time

 

[tonschk]

By at least the connectors were placed properly at the end of the PCB ,I hate the side placed 2x6 pin connectors on the reference PCB because in this way the cables are impossible to hide even a bit

 

[marc512]

Shoulda kept the normal fermi design but changed it so the fan came out like this so you can clean it. If i had the money im not paying for the childs play. I would happily pay for the easy cleaning ability.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Well, it would had been cool if they replaced the whole plastic with Aluminium, but as if that would happen if taking cost into consideration