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fermi is the card that everyone's been talking about for the last couple weeks

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and for good reason it's NVIDIA's first directx 11 part now this isn't quite the

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one that people are as excited about that's the gtx 480 the higher end one

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but today i'm going to be having a look at a zotac gtx 470 so this is a slightly

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cut down gtx 480 basically they've knocked down the memory to uh

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1280 megabytes and then they've knocked

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down the memory interface to 320 bit so that means that it's slightly slower

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access to slightly less memory and the clock speeds are down a little bit as

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well but it's not all bad news you also save a little bit of money versus a gtx 480.

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now something to note about zotac's gtx

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470 is that they've extended the warranty in the us and canada they're

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actually offering a lifetime warranty on their 470 and 480 parts and they're not

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the only vendor to step up and that in that regard with this generation of

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cards actually p and y did the same thing so here on the side you can see

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we've got some i'm going to just zoom in here so you can see the box a little bit

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better we have the included sort of supported software so zotac boost is try

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GeForce accelerated software okay including badaboom which is for encoding

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video and then be reveal for enhancing videos and a couple other things then

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you've got your usual tags from NVIDIA so physics as well as

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do around the side you've got sli support pure video hd as well as GeForce

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kudo let's go around to the back of the box where it says this thing goes really

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fast and then let's go to the side of the box where it says sort of more

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detailed information so it gives you the full specs of the card which if i zoom

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in just a little tiny bit more you might actually be able to read there you go

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and then it also gives you the system requirements and key features and the

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system requirements aren't here i'm guessing i'm going around to the other

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side of the box for that yay there we go minimum system requirements are right

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there so pci express 2.0 compliant motherboard with one dual bit 16x

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graphics slot a six pin and one eight

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pin pci express connector minimum 550

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watt or greater power supply with a minimum 12 volt current rating of 38

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amps okay 10 tm it's see this is a weird thing

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okay look at this

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Intel pentium 4 AMD athlon xp class

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processor or higher show me an athlon xp motherboard with a

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pci express slot why even bother putting that on the side

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of the box it boggles the mind okay so why don't we go ahead i mean everyone

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does it i'm not just calling out zotac on this one for some reason everybody

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seems to include that particular requirement

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athlon xp or better um so

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hey i don't have a knife today but what i do have is an NVIDIA pen to break the

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seal with so how appropriate is that i'm just going to poke a hole in the tape

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here wow that's pretty resilient tape this might be a bit of a problem it's

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very strong tape today but that's okay with the power of NVIDIA i can get

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through it there we go and let's find out what is inside this

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particular video card box so the first thing we find is a clear plastic cover

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that covers it next we've got a couple of pci express

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uh power adapters so that's a dual molex to single pci

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express and then another dual molex to single pci express right there and then

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we've got a dvi to vga adapter

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as well as a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter

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nice of them to include that because how many people have a mini HDMI cable

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versus how many people have an HDMI cable

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okay let's take out the foam here the foam is protecting the video card

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oh that's kind of interesting this doesn't actually look like it's quite

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the right size for the 470. look at this you can kind of take it and stick it

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over there and then i'm going to zoom out a little bit so you can see what i'm

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doing a little bit better here but uh see look at look at this you can

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actually take the 470 and it looks like it just just fits right on this side but

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then on this side you've got like an extra inch of space so i'm wondering if maybe this carton wasn't designed for

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the 480 and then they just kind of slapped 470

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on the outside of it either way okay inside this baggie we

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find first a warning so the warning is about

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just how hot the gtx 470 gets attention

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before booting your pc make sure you connect the two 6 pin pci express power

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connectors and please allow the graphics card to cool after operation before

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removing it from your system signed NVIDIA thank you for that next inside

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here you'll find a few more things so the first one is supersonic sled

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design garage test drive your GeForce GPU so it's got

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a couple of demo demos on there then you have a driver installation cd as well as

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a zotac case badge don't use that well you can use the case back but don't use

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the cd download the latest drivers off NVIDIA.com uh here's a little list of the zotac

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boosters well the NVIDIA cuda enabled applications that you can run with this

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card you've got a zotac extended warranty as well as quick installation

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guide booklet and then last but not least you have a zotac user's manual

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now let's have a look at the card itself and this is another thing that i'm uh i

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was pretty sure about but not 100 yeah on the outside of the box this

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really does look kind of reused from the 480 which i totally understand because

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the reality of it is they didn't have a whole lot of time to do packaging

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between NVIDIA sending the cards to their partners and then putting branding

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on them and sending them out for retail but on the side of this box it actually

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says it requires one six pin and one eight pin pci express connector but this

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card actually runs off two six pin connectors so that would be completely

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unnecessary so i'm just gonna stand here and show you the card because that's simpler than using that stupid remote to

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zoom so you've got your fan here the fan is quite loud if it's anything like the

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gtx 480 which i also did a video about the fan speed of zotac has actually

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managed to work their branding right onto the plastic of the card itself

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which is kind of surprising to me because um

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for the most part all of the launch cards i've seen have just kind of had a

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sticker on them so they've got their serial number on the top here or what it may be a part

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number more zotac branding GeForce branding this is present on all 470s and

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480s up at the top you've got two sli bridge connectors for up to three-way

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sli on the back you can see right where the GPU is located here where the pcb is

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busiest and then right by the fan NVIDIA has actually worked in a ventilation

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hole for that fan to get more airflow sucked in from the back let's work our

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way down to the bottom of the card where we will find a standard pci express uh

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16x connector and then we can go from there around to i guess the back where

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you can see right down into the shroud here there's uh some of the power

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regulation stuff is right there so you're going to get some incidental airflow from the fan that's going to

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keep that nice and cool okay and then around to the business end

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of the card this is where your two dvi connectors are don't forget that these

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470s and 480s do support surround view

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but only in sli mode so you would actually plug two monitors into two dvi

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and then you would take another card and then plug a single monitor into that and

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you can actually run 3d vision on three monitors at the same time so that's

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pretty cool then you've got your mini HDMI connector so thank you for checking

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out my unboxing and first look at the

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zotac gtx 470