Gainward GTX470 Golden Sample - GOOD Power of a Golden Sample

Author: Jouni 'Jipa' Vasama Published: 20.06.2010 Manufacturer: Gainward Product Group: Graphics cards In English Suomeksi

Oveclocking

The GS and GOOD edition GTX 470 already comes with a light overclock out of the box, but ofcourse we had to see how far the frequencies could still be pushed. In the 4-series Nvidias the CPU and shader clock speeds are linked together, so there are really only two things to adjust: the CPU/shader clock and the memory frequency. Our test sample developed graphical issues with even slightly higher memory clocks, but the CPU/shader clock had some nice headroom left.

Benchmarks

All the benchmarks were run with the same setup. The processor was overclocked to 4.05GHz just to make sure that the CPU isn't the bottleneck on the benchmarks. One must remember that the results that we achieved cannot be directly compared to other systems and the achieved overclocks depend greatly on the card.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that I'm still working on rerunning some of the benchmarks on the newer drivers, this card is going to be compared with results that were gotten with older drivers. Some of the results may be a little bit different with the newest drivers, but the differences aren't that drastic in most cases.

• Processor: Intel Core 2 E8500 (9 x 450 MHz)
• Motherboard: Foxconn Black Ops
• Memory: 2 * 1 GB Patriot 1800LLK (1800 MHz 7-7-7-20)
• Video: Being tested....
• Sound: Onboard Audio
• Storage: Western Digital 200 GB
• Power Supply: Xigmatek NRP-HC1201
• Chassis: Antec Skeleton (Modded)
• Cooling: Corsair Nautilus (Modded)

• Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1

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