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GTX470, tell me I've bought the right card

3dcandy said:
I don't agree. They use less power, run cooler and are much smaller dies. The prices can go down much lower if AMD wishes and that would force NV to drop their prices to match which would cause them significant pain.
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Hi 3dcandy, it's not that I don't agree with all of the above but I just don't see that has anything to do with the consumer! If NVIDIA or AMD or any company for that matter want to sell me something at cost or at a loss I don't care really. From a cost perspective sure the additional electric does come into it with the GF100 chips but to what degree I don't know.

If the heat and noise are within reason I could live with it, personally I run crossfired 4850s and they server me very well and I think AMD have once again released fantastic perf/mm, perf/watt cards that will surely put pressure on NVIDIA, we've seen this already with the price drops, but those 470s at these prices are looking like excellent buys...

it's basically a win/win for consumers today, and I like that a lot,

regards,
J.
 
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@OP going by anand's review, he's says that the 470 is a better buy than the 6870 for $20 more if you are going by performance so seeing as the OCUK 470 is £25 less than the cheapest 6870 on OCUK I'd say it's a good buy
 
Mr Krugga said:
The answer to this question is relatively simple.

Buy GTX470 if you can get one priced competitively (for £175 on offer today, the 470 is a no-brainer). Buy it if you need CUDA or Physx (I doubt anyone needs the latter though). There might be your desire for Folding performance as well (in which case Radeons are useless, although there are other interesting projects you can join in with them).

On the other hand, buy the 6870 if it's priced at £180 (as it should be) and GTX470 is £195+. Buy the Radeon if you feel like having a low power consumption card with good temps and no noise issues. It will still perform on the levels similar to GTX470.

BTW, DO YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS TODAY??
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That about sums it up :)

I'm going to wait a week for the 6XXX prices to fall a little, although the 470 is outstanding value at that price, I'd still want a cooler, quieter card myself.
 
oweneades said:
A 470 at stock clocks will easily need more than 70% fan to keep the temperatures in check. Any hint of voltage increase will require an increase in fan speed to keep those temperatures manageble.

I used to own one with a custom fan profile set in afterburner. It was noticable with anything more than 60% fan an intolerable at 75%+.

Maybe I am just more sensitive to the noise that others?

At £175 the 470 is good value but it does run hot, it is noisy (70%+ fan) and will consume a lot more power at load than a 6870.

Personally I would have gone for the 6870 only for the fact that I could get 470 levels of performance without any of the other drawbacks.
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Theres no problem with running the 470 upto 80C during normal gaming - none of the ones I've had my hands on so far have needed more than 55% fan to keep them in the mid 70s and the fan isn't audiable above the case noise until 60-65% and not really annoying unless it goes over 70-75% unless you have a really quiet case or very low tolerance.
 
oweneades said:
A 470 at stock clocks will easily need more than 70% fan to keep the temperatures in check. Any hint of voltage increase will require an increase in fan speed to keep those temperatures manageble.

I used to own one with a custom fan profile set in afterburner. It was noticable with anything more than 60% fan an intolerable at 75%+.

Maybe I am just more sensitive to the noise that others?
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What I'm interested to know is could it be something to do with your case's cooling/airflow is not particular well, which might lead to you having higher temp than other people that got GTX470, thus the fan spinning faster?

Rroff said:
Theres no problem with running the 470 upto 80C during normal gaming - none of the ones I've had my hands on so far have needed more than 55% fan to keep them in the mid 70s and the fan isn't audiable above the case noise until 60-65% and not really annoying unless it goes over 70-75% unless you have a really quiet case or very low tolerance.
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I finished installing a 2nd hand P5Q Deluxe into my newly bought Cooler Master 690 II Advanced (which I got total of 9 fans with around 50~60 CFM each in it), and will hopefully be moving my Q6600 over tomorrow. Do you think it would be able to keep the temp of the GTX470 low enough to not need to spin about 70% fan speed?
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
I finished installing a 2nd hand P5Q Deluxe into my newly bought Cooler Master 690 II Advanced (which I got total of 9 fans with around 50~60 CFM each in it), and will hopefully be moving my Q6600 over tomorrow. Do you think it would be able to keep the temp of the GTX470 low enough to not need to spin about 70% fan speed?
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Depends what your doing, the fan profile and ambient temps.

My GTX470 is currently at 78C with 45% fan speed (my choice of less noise over cooling) with an ambient 21C - I've spent the last 2 hours playing games, mostly eve.
 
Cuchulain said:
I'm coming from a 512mb 4870, tried to find comparison benchmarks but no dice, it seems to be on a par with the 5850 so I'll have to dig up 4870 -> 5850 -> 470 benches.
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same here but in the end I got the HIS 5850, what i would do if I was you is wait to see what the 6970 is like but if you need a card now i would go with the GTX470 mate.
 
Rroff said:
Depends what your doing, the fan profile and ambient temps.

My GTX470 is currently at 78C with 45% fan speed (my choice of less noise over cooling) with an ambient 21C - I've spent the last 2 hours playing games, mostly eve.
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Why not run the fan at 55% if you can't hear it above case noise anyway?
 
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