Galaxy GeForce GTX 470 GC 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

3
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Good pricing, easy to clean the heat sink, silent operation, very good performance once overclocked, mini-HDMI to HDMI cable included (not just adapter), blue LED in the fan
Custom cooler is funky and makes maintenance easy, Much cooler than a stock card, Attractively priced

Cons:

Plastic portion of the heat sink looks cheap and flimsy, higher power consumption compared to reference card
Clock speeds too conservative, Custom cooler is slightly noisier

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Last revision on November 4, 2010

Reviewers Liked

Good pricing, easy to clean the heat sink, silent operation, very good performance once overclocked, mini-HDMI to HDMI cable included (not just adapter), blue LED in the fan
Custom cooler is funky and makes maintenance easy, Much cooler than a stock card, Attractively priced

Reviewers Didn't Like

Plastic portion of the heat sink looks cheap and flimsy, higher power consumption compared to reference card
Clock speeds too conservative, Custom cooler is slightly noisier

Expert reviews and ratings

The GTX 470 GC is a unique graphics card that packs superlative performance under its hood. It’s simply the fastest GTX 470 we’ve tested....

By ITP.net on November 04, 2010

A decent card with funky features, but no...

By Atomic MPC on September 01, 2010

This is probably the best part; Galaxy charges more or less the same price for this O.C version of the GTX 470. You should be able to find this for Rs.23000, which I must say isn't a bad price at all given the special features Galaxy has thrown in....

By TechTree on June 04, 2010

It's been barely two months since the launch of the GeForce GTX 470 and already Galaxy has put out a non-reference GeForce GTX 470 card, and this is certainly impressive. What's also commendable is the unorthodox design of the cooler. A...

By HardwareZone.com on May 11, 2010

Galaxy has produced a solid variant of a GeForce GTX 470 GPU powered video card. Galaxy has gone to great lengths to re-design this board and customize their own heatsink cooling device. We’ve witnessed this cooling device's efficient cooling...

By HardOCP on May 10, 2010