DA GTX 470 Graphics Card is a new one from digital alliance,Digital Alliance (DA), is quite fast in terms of adopting Graphic processing unit (GPU) up to date(GTX 470) . Whether it is to chip from AMD or Nvidia.
For performance issues like this graphics card is indeed already undoubtedly return. Armed with the number as many as 448 stream processors, and supported by 1280MB GDDR5 memory capacity, makes this product able to run all games on the board with maximum details.
But,it all must be redeemed with a temperature high enough on this graphics card,
At maximum load conditions, this product temperatures touching 95 degrees Celsius figures. While at idle, only around 66-70 degrees centigrade.
Despite Nvidia's claim that such a high temperature is still relatively safe, but this product is not recommended for users who only have a mediocre cooling system in a computer casing.
In addition,have tested this product in the computer with the casing closed without a cooling system that luxuries. Meanwhile, when operated on the circumstances terbut casing, average temperatures this product can be reduced to 20 degrees at maximum load conditions.
DA GTX 470 does have a myriad of features such as DirectX 11, NVIDIA Vision 3D Surround, 3-way NVIDIA SLI, NVIDIA PhysX, NVIDIA CUDA, up to 32x anti-aliasing. But alas, the included bonus is very minimum..
For the product class of DA GTX 470, it would be wise if dibundling with a game that can maximize the graphics card but it did not.
Whether it's gaming, or mini-HDMI converter will not be obtained on the sales package of this product. Talk about a mini HDMI, this product has indeed been supporting the latest HDMI port which is relatively smaller than previous.
Although still expensive, but thanks to the reliable performance, and supported with after sales service which is adequate for Digital Alliance, makes the product worth $ 385 is noteworthy for the enthusiast computer.
+ High performance
+ Still expensive
- Excessive heat
- Minimum bonus
Results Bechmark:
3D Mark 2006: 21 203
Mark Vantage 3D: P16750
Resident Evil 5
DirectX 10, 1920 X 1080: 111 FPS
DirectX 10, 1920 X 1080, 8X AA: 91