News - XFX GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards pose for the camera

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Partner cards exposed ahead of Friday's launch.

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[keasla]

cant wait to get 3 of these in my comp with waterblocks on them

[jim]

Riiiiight. I think I'd only do that if I won the Euromillions. And even then, I'd only do it the once - just for the sheer hell of it.

[Percy1983]

Just think of the e-peen!

They look like graphics cards to me.

[ajones]

Riiiiight. I think I'd only do that if I won the Euromillions. And even then, I'd only do it the once - just for the sheer hell of it.

You'ld need to win the lottery to be able to afford 3 of them!!

[keasla]

3 gtx480s dont cost that much about £1100 - £1200 for cards that should last me till dx12 comes out (i hope) and put that will a gulftown that will last me till dx13 out

[cleaverlch]

The size of the cooler and way the heatpipes are layed out seem to suggest that the 480 is going to be one hell of a hot card. I wouldn't want to have one of these beasts inside my computer.

[kalniel]

The size of the cooler and way the heatpipes are layed out seem to suggest that the 480 is going to be one hell of a hot card.

You can tell that from the power requirements - energy going in has to come out somewhere But it's no worse than the 295 or 5970.

[mikemikemi]

I suppose 700mhz is not too bad considering the issues they had and the size of the chip.

Wonder how much headroom is in there.........

[keasla]

well look at this
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18175/1/

[cleaverlch]

well look at this
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18175/1/

If powered by a ZPM?

[kalniel]

I suppose 700mhz is not too bad considering the issues they had and the size of the chip.

Wonder how much headroom is in there.........

It will be hugely variable- early manufactured ones will have less, but the odd example is likely to be okay. Once the process has matured a year or so down the line then it should be a lot better, but it's a bit of a minefield with low yield and late products like this.

[mikemikemi]

It will be hugely variable- early manufactured ones will have less, but the odd example is likely to be okay. Once the process has matured a year or so down the line then it should be a lot better, but it's a bit of a minefield with low yield and late products like this.

Once they fix the manufacturing process, the fermi as intended will probably come out as a 490 GTX or something like that,

[jim]

Given nVidia's naming strategy, it'll probably also be called a 480 and lead to much confusion as nobody knows what the heck is going on.

[keasla]

it might be the gtx485

[=assassin=]

The length of the 480 is given, but what is the length of the 470? Thanks.