14 DAY TRIAL // Gigabyte has apparently decided that a certain cooling module has not been getting enough work lately, so it figured it may as well stick it to one of its factory-overclocked Fermi cards, in this case the NVIDIA-based GeForce GTX 470 OC.
The version of the GTX 470 known as GV-N470OC-13I has been on sale for a while, but has now been given a significantly stronger cooler.
Said cooling module goes by the name of WindForce X3 and is the very same solution that its owner used on the GTX 480 Super Overclock.
It is, basically, a large heatsink that draws heat out of the GPU and other relevant parts of the card, heat which is then dispersed by three fans.
The rest of the specifications of the GV-N470OC-13I rev 2.0 have not actually been changed over the non-revised model, meaning that it is still factory overclocked.
The Fermi GF104 graphics processing unit (GPU), based on the 45nm manufacturing process, has a frequency of 630 MHz, more than the stock 607 MHz.
Secondly, the shaders are clocked at 1,260 MHz, while the 1,280 MB of GDDR5 VRAM operate at 3,348 MHz.
As for the rest of the feature set, the card supports DirectX 11 (obviously), OpenGL 4.1 and NVIDIA's own technologies, like GPU PhysX, CUDA and SLI.
Finally, for video output and compatibility with various monitors and HDTVs, the GTX 460 OC rev. 2 is designed with a pair of DVI ports and an HDMI output.
Unfortunately, while the exact price has not exactly been established yet, this new iteration of the high-end NVIDIA video controller should sell for around the same sum as the GV-N470OC-13I (unrevised).
As such, one can suspect they will have to part with roughly $260-$300. Any other information is, of course, available on the official product page.