Any advantages in gaming between the 2? I know NVIDIA cards do all that folding malarky and has CUDA etc but do I even need those when gaming? Wouldn't think so though? I might be able to get one of these dependant on money in the next hour or so, and to be honest I don't know what I want, I've been an nvidia fan for most of my computing life but I've occasionally used ATI/AMD cards, I just want a card that will be good for gaming (and I know both will be) and right now I'm not bothered which card I get, whichever runs cooler will do me I guess as long as it plays games, max resolution for my monitor is 1680x1050. Cheers.
Either card will serve you well tbh ,me i prefer nvidia cards and i've had a 470 since may and i'd say it's been the best card i've owned , in fact i just installed a 2nd 470 last night for sli - now that's beastly... don't really care about the power consumption but the 470's do get noisy when the fan spins up over 75%.....
What are the temps like on the 470 you've got? (before you got your 2nd card) as I'm wondering what the stock cooler would be like on this one Palit NVIDIA GTX 470 Graphics Card with it not being a custom cooler, would it be pretty hot? Just asking because I've lots of reviews where it says stock coolers on most graphics cards mean the temperature gets extremely hot.
Funnily enough that's the exact card delivered to me from Scan yesterday , before sli my original gtx470 (its a stock inno3d) ran at around 37c idle , topped out around 79c with around 75% fan speed - my inno 470 oveclocked to 750 on the core without touching the core voltage , haven't run the palit card on its own so can;t tell you how that runs.... - nice little bonus i got a free download of mafia2 with the palit card also.... one thing you might not be aware of is that different fermie cards can come with a different default vcore (hence temps can vary) - my inno3d runs at 950mv vcore , the palit card runs at 985mv....
I rang Scan about that Palit GTX 470 they're selling and because almost every review I've read on it showing it to be a dual fan orange/black colour I asked them if it was a stock cooler or indeed the one shown in all the reviews and they said it is the orange/black coloured dual fan version, is that the one you received from Scan as well?
Hmm how bizarre, I spoke to someone just before 3 o'clock and they said it is the dual fan version! Wonder if that's just sales patter to make me buy it then! Because it is the one with the dual fan I was after, that's why I asked them lol. Oh well a trip over to the scan forum incoming to triple check
Saw this - thought you might be interested.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MSI-GeForce-GTX-470-Twin-Frozr-II-GTX470-PCIe-/130467472933?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item1e6077a625#ht_686wt_1129
Thanks for that Phil, Wish I'd have gone for littlepuppi's now, chances are that would almost definitely have been here today.
