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GeForce GTX 470 Graphics Card Pictured

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A picture of what NVIDIA's reference design for its next-gen performance graphics card, the GeForce GTX 470, could look like made it to sections of the media. The card is characteristically shorter than the GTX 480 reference design card spotted earlier. The GeForce GTX 470 will be the slightly more affordable part in the series. It is based on NVIDIA's new GF100 graphics core. The GTX 470 could have 448 CUDA cores (shader cores), and has a 320-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. Board partners could sell these cards with 1280 MB of memory. There back of the card shows tracks for 10 memory chips (confirming the 320-bit wide memory interface), and interestingly, also lacks traces for an external display IO processor (like the NVIO2 processor on GT200 based accelerators), cutting down the overall cost of manufacturing. The card draws power from two 6-pin power connectors, and has two SLI fingers for 3-way SLI support. Its connectivity includes two DVI-D, and HDMI.
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http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=32988&catid=2


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fizzle-187 said:
That's bloomin plain? What happened to Nvidia's awesome design's?
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Plain, I'd call that subtle. Don't worry though, i'm sure one of the board partners will add a sticker with a Rhino in a suit of armour fighting a topless woman or something similar :D
 
Yeah, it looks like the outer part of the fan is hidden. Should help with the cooling though. It might be just me, or the card looks fatter then usual cards.
 
The fan is basically a ring of paddles, the only intakes are the 2 little ports on the back and the thin ring around the front between the paddles and the hub connection to the motor - theres a couple of other vents too to aid airflow across the card but it still not much really... either it uses far less power and produces far less heat than people are saying, the card isn't what it appears to be or nVidia have really badly designed it for optimal cooling. Mind you the first edition of the 8800GT was like that and they had to redesign the fan with a bigger aperture due to all the over heating so nothing would suprise me.
 
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It is a small fan, you can see the outer edges of the blades at the bottom of the fan intake. That said it is the lower end part so will probably have reasonable power consumption and heat output anyway as a result of reduced clock speed and disabled shaders.
 
Rroff said:
The fan is basically a ring of paddles, the only intakes are the 2 little ports on the back and the thin ring around the front between the paddles and the hub connection to the motor - theres a couple of other vents too to aid airflow across the card but it still not much really... either it uses far less power and produces far less heat than people are saying, the card isn't what it appears to be or nVidia have really badly designed it for optimal cooling. Mind you the first edition of the 8800GT was like that and they had to redesign the fan with a bigger aperture due to all the over heating so nothing would suprise me.
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The first 8800GTs still usually ran under 100C AFAIK, but then there was bumpgate with chips failing so I think the bigger aperture fan was more to do with that.
 
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