On The Bench: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock

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Gigabyte recently sent us an altered GeForce GTX 470 with the highest factory overclock that we’ve seen. Is the custom-cooled card worth an extra $70 bucks? We test the GV-N470SO-13I, comparing it to Nvidia’s reference GTX 470, in order to find out.

Benchmark Results: Crysis, Far Cry 2

The Gigabyte GV-N470SO-13I Super Overclock edition card fares better than the reference model here, as expected. It boasts about an 11% performance lead here.

In Far Cry 2, the factory-overclocked Gigabyte GV-N470SO-13I demonstrates its advantage over the reference card, but a gamer probably wouldn’t notice the difference while playing the game.

Don Woligroski
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.