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EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW Video Card Review

Manufacturer: eVGA
Product: 012-P3-1479-AR
Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. It is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, and two upcoming expansion packs, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has had a successful launch, selling three million copies worldwide in less than a month.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty System Settings

The game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, so we recorded a scene and played it back at normal speed and measured performance with FRAPS. The screen capture above shows the system settings that we were using for StarCraft II. Notice we are running the graphics quality and textures set to Ultra and maxed out everything in the menu. We did not manually enable AA in the drivers though, as we wanted to keep testing simple and consistent to the choices offered in the games settings menus.

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Benchmark Results: Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty doesn't show a great deal of difference between our top cards; in fact, it is less than 2% at 1280x1024. At 1920x1080 the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW was able to increase the performance margin to 6.9% over the HIS Radeon HD 5870.

Next Page - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - EVGA GeForce GTX 470 HYDRO FTW
Page 2 - EVGA GeForce GTX 470 HYDRO FTW Retail Packaging
Page 3 - A Close Look at the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 HYDRO FTW
Page 4 - Legit Reviews Test Bench
Page 5 - Colin McRae: DiRT2
Page 6 - Just Cause 2
Page 7 - Metro 2033
Page 8 - Aliens Vs. Predator Benchmark v1.03
Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 10 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 11 - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
Page 12 - Unigine Heaven v2.1 Benchmark
Page 13 - Temperatures Testing
Page 14 - Power Consumption
Page 15 - Overclocking the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 HYDRO FTW
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions