GTX 570 Phantom Unboxing!!!

Craterloads · 21 Apr 2011 at 19:39

Just got delivery of my shiny new phantom, all the way from france in 2 days!! Thought id post some unboxing pics and some of the card as i know there quite a bit of interest in these cards. Will post some benchies and overclocking results later

Was a little worried it may be a little gimmicky, but it is the real deal. Nice weight to the card and quality craftmanship.

Standard affair, 6 + 8pin

Cleeecooo · 21 Apr 2011 at 19:43

very nice. Enjoy!

chaparral · 21 Apr 2011 at 20:30

Nice Card

Shame they didn't increase the memory to 2GB on there 570 Phantom like they did with there 3GB 580 Phantom
The lower 1280mb memory on the 570 is the only thing that puts me off buying a 570 GTX..

TerryH · 21 Apr 2011 at 21:00

Smell of freshly opened components.. My Utopia.

Craterloads · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:08

am i ok to just install nvidia drivers after uninstalling ati drivers or is it best i do a clean install?

Ferax · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:14

That's a very sexy looking card

chaotic_uk · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:17

if only they would put that cooler on a 6970

JeffyB · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:22

Every time i see a picture of a phantom i think its got a mini gpu waterloop

jorzeh · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:25

I love the smell of a new video card, They should launch a video card smelling perfume, I'd wear it.

Predicament · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:35

Yeah.. interesting decision for them to put only 12xx Gb of VRAM on such an expensive card

Craterloads · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:38

Predicament said:
Yeah.. interesting decision for them to put only 12xx Gb of VRAM on such an expensive card

Was £266 delivered, so only £10 or so over a reference model.

To be honest 1.3GB vram is more than enough and by the time you would need more the card will be obselete.

Predicament · 21 Apr 2011 at 22:44

Craterloads said:
Was £266 delivered, so only £10 or so over a reference model.

To be honest 1.3GB vram is more than enough and by the time you would need more the card will be obselete.

I take it you've never played GTAIV. Furthermore, why would one not buy a future proof card?

Disregard my observations if you wish, you still bought a cracking card and it will serve you well

aeneon · 21 Apr 2011 at 23:32

Great card , i bought one as well . Build quality is fantastic and even the box and packaging reflects that. Runs super cool and very quiet to. Enjoy.

Scon · 21 Apr 2011 at 23:38

chaparral said:
The lower 1280mb memory on the 570 is the only thing that puts me off buying a 570 GTX..

Because you play at 1080p and would hardly ever use more than 1.2GB?

Atavist · 21 Apr 2011 at 23:50

Oozes quality. Not as clumsy or as random as a reference model. An elegant card for a more civilised age...

I hope you have a windowed case to show it off

arc@css · 22 Apr 2011 at 00:08

Nice card.

Craterloads · 22 Apr 2011 at 10:24

Update:

Seems like this card is a beast at overclocking

10min Furmark run and heaven benchmark run, still early though

Getting to 850MHz @ stock 1v
900Mhz @ 1.050v
950Mhz @ still tinkering
can get working on 1ghz but not stable long enough at 1.15v, afterburner wont allow anymore volts as would definatly be stable.

Deluxe1 · 22 Apr 2011 at 11:19

Temps?

Craterloads · 22 Apr 2011 at 11:27

Deluxe1 said:
Temps?

Not too good im afraid, well in furmark anyway.

Getting in to the 90's but my Antec Kuhler H20 620 is directly blowing hot air on to the graphics which is causing the hight temps. Going to mover the cooler to see if that helps

rounddodger · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:57

Forget Furmark, lets see some game temps.