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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | Gigabyte |
| Product: | Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition |
| Date: | Wed, Oct 27, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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Power Consumption
For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we measured the peak wattage used by the system while running the OpenGL benchmark FurMark 1.8.2 at 1280x1024 resolution.
The idle power consumption of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition was a little bit higher than I would care to see. Sitting at 159 Watts at the wall, it was the second highest idle power consumption of all of our cards today and it was only 6 Watts lower than the highest. This is a bit shocking to me considering that the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW was running a Swiftech MCP655B pump and three Yate Loon High Speed 120MM fans in addition to the rest of the hardware. Load power consumption was 57 Watts lower than the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW which sounds about right for the additional water cooling hardware that is required for the EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW.
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Page 2 - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Retail Packaging Page 3 - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Close-Up 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 - Temperature Testing Page 14 - Power Consumption Page 15 - Overclocking the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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