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Fermi is the card that everyone's been talking about for the last couple weeks and for a good reason it's in videos first DirectX 11 part now this isn't quite the one that people are as excited about that's the GTX 480 the higher-end one but today I'm gonna be having a look at a ZOTAC GTX 470 so this is a slightly cut-down GTX 480 basically they have knocked down the memory to twelve hundred and eighty megabytes and then they've knocked down the memory interface to three hundred and twenty bit so that means that it's slightly slower access to slightly less memory and the clock speeds are down a little bit as well but it's not all bad news you also save a little bit of money versus a GTX 480 now something to note about the zotac gtx 470 is that they've extended the warranty in the US and canada they're actually offering a lifetime warranty on their 470 in 480 parts and they're not the only vendor to step up and that in that regard with this generation of cards actually P&Y did the same thing so here on the side you can see we've got some I'm gonna just zoom in here so you can see the Box a little bit better we have the included sort of supported software so ZOTAC boost is tri g-force accelerated software ok including badda-boom which is for encoding video and then be reveal for enhancing videos and a couple other things then you've got your usual tags from Nvidia so with physics as well as do around the side you've got SLI support purevideo HD as well as GeForce Kudo let's go around to the back of the box where it says this thing goes really fast and then let's go to the side of the box where it says sort of more detailed information so it gives you the full specs of the card which if i zoom in just a little tiny bit more you might actually be able to read there you go and then it also gives you the system requirements and key features and the system requirements aren't here I'm guessing I'm going around to the other side of the box for that yeah there we go minimum system requirements are right there so PCI Express 2.0 compliant motherboard with one duel with 16x graphics slot in 6 pin and 1/8 pin PCI Express connector minimum 550 watt or great power supply with a minimum 12 volt current rating of thirty eight amps okay Pentium it's C this is a weird thing okay look at this Intel Pentium 4 AMD Athlon XP class processor or higher show me an Athlon XP motherboard with a PCI Express slot why even bother putting that on the side of the box I boggles the mind okay so why don't we go ahead I mean everyone does it I'm not just calling it a zoom tap on this one for some reason everybody seems to include that particular requirement Athlon XP or better so okay I don't have a knife today but what I do have is an Nvidia pen to break the seal with so how appropriate is that I'm just gonna poke a hole in the tape here wow that's pretty resilient tape this might be a bit of a problem it's very strong paint today but that's okay with the power of Nvidia I can get through it there we go and let's find out what is inside this particular video card box so the first thing we find is a clear plastic cover that covers it next we've got a couple of PCI Express power adapters so that's a dual molex to single PCI Express and then another dual molex to single PCI Express right there and then we've got a DVI to VGA adapter as well as a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter next to them to include that because how many people have a mini HDMI cable versus how many people have an HDMI cable okay let's take out the foam here the foam is protecting the video card that's kind of interesting this doesn't actually look like it's quite the right size for the 470 look at this you can kind of take it and stick it over there and then I'm gonna zoom out a little bit so you can see what I'm doing a little bit better here but see look at look at this you can actually take the 470 and it looks like it just just fits right on this side but then on this side you've got like an extra inch of space so I'm wondering if maybe this carton wasn't for 480 and then they just kind of slapped for 70 on the outside of it by the right kid inside this baggie we find first a warning so the warning is about just how hot the gtx 470 gets attention before booting your pc make sure you connect the two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors and please allow the graphics card to cool after operation before removing it from your system sign in video thank you for that next inside here you'll find a few more things so the first one is supersonic sled design garage test drive your GeForce GPU so it's got a couple of demo demos on there then you have a driver installation CD as well as a ZOTAC case pad you don't use that well you can use the case bag we don't use the CD download the latest drivers often video.com uh-huh here's a little list of these Oh tab boosters well the Nvidia CUDA enabled applications that you can run with this card you've got a ZOTAC extended warranty as well as quick quick installation guide booklet and then last but not least you have a ZOTAC user's manual now let's have a look at the card itself and this is another thing that I'm I was pretty sure about but not a hundred percent yeah on the outside of the box it this really does look kind of reused from the 480 which I totally understand because the reality of it is they didn't have a whole lot of time to do packaging between Nvidia sending the cards to their partners and then putting branding on them and sending them out for retail but on the side of this box it actually says it requires one six pin and one eight pin PCI Express connector but this card actually runs off to six pin connectors so that would be completely unnecessary so I'm just gonna stand here and show you the card because that's simpler than using that stupid remote to zoom so you've got your fan here the fan is quite loud if it's anything like the GTX 480 which I also did a video about the fan speed of ZOTAC is actually managed to work their branding right onto the plastic of the card itself which is kind of surprising to me because for the most part all of the launch cards I've seen have just kind of had a sticker on them so they've got their serial number on the top here or what it may be a part number more ZOTAC branding geforce branding this present on all four 70s and four 80s up at the top you've got two sli bridge connectors for up to three Way SLI on the back you can see right where the GPU is located here where the PCB is busiest and then right by the fan and videos actually worked in a ventilation hole for that fan to get more airflow sucked in from the back let's work our way down to the bottom of the car where we will find a standard PCI Express 16x connector and then we can go from there around - I guess the back where you can see right down into the shroud here there's some of the power regulation stuff is right there so you're gonna get some incidental airflow from the fan that's going to keep that nice and cool okay and then around to the business end of the card this is where your two DVI connectors are don't forget that these four 70's and four 80s do support surround view but only in SLI mode so you would actually plug two monitors into two DVI and then you would take another card and then plug a single monitor into that and you can actually run 3d vision on three monitors at the same time so that's pretty cool then you've got your mini HDMI connector so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the zotac gtx 470