14 DAY TRIAL // Back in June, at Computex, Taipei, became the staging ground for a great many electronics, a large part of which have still not managed to come to market. This extends not just to computers, but all types of components and peripherals, in addition to consumer electronics. Gigabyte was among those who previewed some more particularly powerful inventions. Now, one of them, namely a special iteration of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470, has finally deigned to show up as available for pre-order.
The product is known as the Gigabyte GTX 470 Super Overclock, or GTX 470 SOC for short. As its name implies, it has substantial modification to its clock speeds and, by extension, a severely customized cooling module, without which the GF100 GPU (graphics processing unit), the memory and the shaders would undoubtedly meet an untimely death.
The blue-colored PCB (printed circuit board) bears five NEC proadlizers which drastically increase power stability during heavy workloads. The board also features a 12+2 phase PWM design and the WindForce 3X dual-slot active cooler. This cooling module has three copper heatpipes, a vapor chamber and a quite silent set of three PWM fans. As for the actual specifications, Gigabyte implemented GPU, shader and memory clocks of 700 MHz, 1,500 MHz and 3,348 MHz. Finally, the product comes with 1,280 MB of GDDR5, a memory interface of 320 bits and dual-DVI and mini-HDMI outputs.
Needless to say, only the very financially apt enthusiasts will be in a position to acquire the Gigabyte GTX 470 SOC, not just because of its price. Though pre-orders can reportedly already be set for 339 Euro, one will need to make sure their PC has a strong enough PSU to support it, especially if they are considering multi-GPU setups. Needles to say, DirectX 11, CUDA, SLI, PhysX and the rest of the NVIDIA technologies are supported.