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Asus GeForce GTX 470 Voltage Tweak Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 11 reviews

Excellent:

4
Good:

3
Average:

3
Bad:

1

Pros

Superb performance; DX11 support; works with Nvidia's 3D Vision add-on; supports physics and computation acceleration; quieter than the GTX 480; overclocking utility included
Overclocks well, High Performance, DX11, Eats Tessellation for lunch, Voltage Tweak, Lifetime Warranty, Eye candy that will make a grown man tear up, Price/performance punch
Excellent overclocking potential, Substantial performance improvements in DirectX 11, Improvements to integrated HDMI audio device, Native HDMI output, GDDR5 memory, Reasonable power draw, Support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround, Support for CUDA, PhysX and

Cons

Blocks an adjacent expansion slot; requires two six-pin PCI-E power connectors
Umption
Limited availability, Fairly high temperatures, Noisy under load, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while

By Tech2 on December 09, 2010

The ASUS GTX 470 is definitely a great card with awesome performance figures. It delivers what it promises and is a good choice for those who aren't looking at the top tier for their next gaming fix.The bottom line is that at Rs. 19,945. The GTX 470...

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By ITP.net on November 04, 2010

With an attractive end user price and competitive benchmark numbers Asus’ GTX 470 is a fantastic value-buy....

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By Ocaholic on July 15, 2010

General +-The Fermi based ENGTX470 which features 3.2 billion transistors shows consistent and very good performance. The downsides are the high power consumption and the cooler which becomes very loud. - Loud in 3D applications Delivery +-The...

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By PC Advisor on June 29, 2010

The Asus GeForce GTX 470 ENGTX470 has some interesting features that nVidia hopes will make this and the 480 stronger in the future. It’s already a good card but perhaps not quite fast enough to justify the £60 price difference between this...

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By Computer Shopper on June 01, 2010

Asus' GeForce GTX 470–based ENGTX470 offers the same kind of impressive gaming performance you get with ATI's Radeon HD 5870 card, but at a lower price and with the bonus of CUDA GPU–accelerated computing support....

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By Bjorn3D on April 29, 2010

We like the Asus ENGTX-470 a lot, we especially like the Voltage Tweak. It allows us to overclock higher than a non-Voltage Tweak GPU and we get one stop Voltage Tweak and overclocking in Asus Smart Doctor. Performance was high enough that the only...

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By Legit Reviews on April 23, 2010

The ASUS ENGTX470 graphics card is a solid card based off NVIDIA's reference design, but it has to compete with the ATI Radeon HD 5850 in enthusiast graphics card market that costs $50 less....

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By techPowerUp! on April 19, 2010

To me the GeForce GTX 470 feels like a much better product than the GTX 480. It offers plenty of performance for all modern games, yet neither breaks the bank nor turns your room into a sauna during gaming. It seems a bit to me that GTX 470 was the...

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By Expert Reviews on April 02, 2010

Nvidia's latest card has arrived six months too late, and looks expensive compared to equivalent ATI models....

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By Magnus.de on October 05, 2010

Die Asus ENGTX470 Grafikkarte bietet viel fürs Geld: Jedes moderne 3D-Spiel läuft schnell auf der GTX470. Leider sind im Lieferumfang keine Spiele oder Software...

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