The first non-reference design GTX570 comes from the always busy Gainward. Is the Phantom a big improvement or just an illusion?
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OC3D Review Gainward GTX570 Phantom
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Blackwhite
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What setting did you use Tom on Metro 2033?
MorbiousStone
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Man That card is quite sexy, Great review I was laughing Most of it! Gainward needs 2 start selling in the US
lolz
You wont because the UD7 is normal ATX 2 slot for multiples.
Some cards dont have Voltage tweaks enabled in the back end bios of the cards, but there are ways around it. We dont normally touch these in reviews but both thought we would find out how far the card would go if we did.
How do you bypass that? Maybe you could make a guide or something?
Google is your friend. Other than that.. stonking good looking card. Nice review from both of you guys. BTW: Play the vid at 14:40 to 14:48
Anyway, good looking card but the performance is somewhat disappointing. I had higher hopes for the 570 considering its price.
The conclusion says it was a bit nip and tuck between it and the ref 570... Well from what I was reading it frequently lost out to the reference model which it has absolutely no reason to do especially with it's factory overclock.. It's small but none the less there and should be beating the ref in every test.
If this card ends up costing much more than the ref model then there is no point in buying it.. Your card will run cooler but will dump all the hot air in to your case. The card looks good, but when installed, all you can see through a window is the black edge and Gold Gainward name.
With no voltage tweakage allowed by the bios and no meaningful factory overclock this card seems a bit poo to me.
People go on about waiting for the non ref designs for cooler cards to allow a little more overclocking headroom but this doesn't offer anything like that and clocks less than the ref card for what I expect will be a price premium. It might be quieter, but my 570 runs as good as silent.. My PSU is louder.
Unimpressed.
Good review as always guys.. Just a shame Gainward didn't put a better version of the bios on the card with higher clocks and some voltage allowance.
Edit: Just finished watching the video.. I'll take some of that back as if you can edit it in the beta of Afterburner then that's just as easy as opening any other software to do it.
Out of curiosity, what was the max Afterburner allowed on the voltage? 1.1v?
If this card ends up costing much more than the ref model then there is no point in buying it.. Your card will run cooler but will dump all the hot air in to your case. The card looks good, but when installed, all you can see through a window is the black edge and Gold Gainward name.
With no voltage tweakage allowed by the bios and no meaningful factory overclock this card seems a bit poo to me.
People go on about waiting for the non ref designs for cooler cards to allow a little more overclocking headroom but this doesn't offer anything like that and clocks less than the ref card for what I expect will be a price premium. It might be quieter, but my 570 runs as good as silent.. My PSU is louder.
Unimpressed.
Good review as always guys.. Just a shame Gainward didn't put a better version of the bios on the card with higher clocks and some voltage allowance.
Edit: Just finished watching the video.. I'll take some of that back as if you can edit it in the beta of Afterburner then that's just as easy as opening any other software to do it.
Out of curiosity, what was the max Afterburner allowed on the voltage? 1.1v?
murphy7801
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This does give me high hopes for the gainward GLH gtx 570
Still the 570
So it begs the question The GTX570 or the ATI 6970?
Inquiring minds want to know......
murphy7801
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You can also remove the price TBC
http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase17.5&prodID=B566551
unless this is a lie which it could be.
http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase17.5&prodID=B566551
unless this is a lie which it could be.
delusion77
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looks really nice
