The GTX 470 is still great at heating your room, and playing some games 

Prior to the energy crisis of 2022, technology that produced decent amounts of heat was definitely undervalued.

For some weird reason really i love this old ass gpus, every time you open a game it's a surprise, you don't expect them to run anything at all but they still do, and every second that passes is like a russian roulette in which they can die at any moment.

Impressed by the footage of Stray - even on lowest settings it looks really good and it seems to be well optimized! Impressive result for a 12 year old GPU.

I love how you record outside and not a boring room inside 🤘👍

Great video, I bought a new in box Asus GTX 470 in 2017 ($90 CAD) from Amazon Canada. Used it for about a year, as my only graphics card. Then I got a RX 580 4GB and used that for a coupe of years. My grandson wanted to start a RU-vid channel, so my son and I grabed some old parts we had laying around build him a computer to run his channel from. Yep the Asus GTX 470 was in there for about a year and then my son exchanged cards with him and now my son uses it on their home computer and my grandson has a GTX 970 in his computer. It's nice to see it's still useable...

The fact that a 12yr old card can play modern games is truly amazing! In 2010 a 12yr old card wouldn't have even been able to start games let alone run the operating system!

I bought a GTX 470 back in 2015 for 50 euros. I played GTA 5 on a core 2 duo with about 40 fps Today i saw a pc with an X58 mobo, i7 930 and GTX 470 for 50 euros

Thank god, a space heater on the cheap for the coming winter.

I miss my 3 way sli gtx 480s. Man was that a jet engine system... but man was it warm gaming at 80-90

The GTX 470 and 480 are the best space heaters Nvidia ever made.

Love your content and humble personality that sparks through your words.

i had a palit gtx 460 from 2010-2016 and it really did a great job on 1080p for me. damn that was 175 euros new. dont think gpu prices will ever be that low again. love your content as always

That was my first gpu in the computer i got in december 2010. She gave me great gaming times untill she died 5 year ago, RIP my gtx 470.

The gtx 470 was certainly impressive as a space heater, but the upcoming 4070 will be even better. Thermi wasn't bad, the coolers on the reference cards were just a bit underpowered. Now with better coolers on the new cards we are going to see a massive increase in heating performance, I reckon 600 W on the 4090 will be quite casual.

wow my radeon r5 m330 from 2015 ran gta 5 800x600 30fps and this thing from 2010 ran it at 93 what a beast

This channel is chill af, gets straight to the point, no over edits, no bs. Love it

I bought a pair of these at launch (EVGA models) and paired them with my QX6700 that ran at 3Ghz. Due the motherboard layout, I had to sandwich my X-fi sound card between the two GTX 470's. Needless to say, within a year, the prodigious heat from the 470's roasted the sound card and it failed. About 3 months after than the top card also failed, likely due to excessive heat. I RMA'd the failed card, and EVGA sent me a GTX 570 as a replacement, which meant that SLI wasn't possible. So I called them back and they said that they didn't have any replacement GTX 470's , but said that if I sent them the working 470, they'd send me another 570. Which sounded good to me. So I sent them the remaining 470 and sure enough, they send me a new 570 and I was back in the SLI business. The GTX 570's seemed to run a bit cooler, I never had any trouble with them, they were just short on VRAM.

I bought exactly this card back in the day when I was single, without kids and tons of money.

I was running the EVGA version of this card all the way up until the GTX 960 came out. I got it second-hand from eBay to replace a GTX 260 Core 216 that died in dramatic fashion, and for some reason I still have it laying around. I played a LOT of Mass Effect on it, good times.

nice video :) thank you 😁😎

It's a powerhouse for DX9 titles at 1080p.

videos about old gpu stuff always the stuff that i liked imo. It always amazes me when they ran modern games even though technically they aren't relevant in this modern day and age.

Back on my first homebuilt PC, I had a GTX 570 howling away below my OC'd i7-950. I miss the ol space heater. Thanks for the memories!

I bought a GTX 570 second hand in about 2013 for my second PC. I had just got GTX 760 in my main PC at the time and I was really impressed with how well the GTX570 stood up.

this is going to be great!

Your dog 🐶 is such a cutie 🥰 . Despite its 🔥🔥fiery history, it’s a semi-decent GPU. I actually had the GTX590 which saw a small but decent drop in temps and gave impressive performance in it day.

I still need more video of your amazing dog.

Kinda crazy to think that the Steam Deck, with its 15w SoC and an integrated GPU, is faster in games than a mid range card from 2010

Great review of this nostalgic graphics card, I remember when I built my first gaming PC back in 2012, I used a GTX550Ti. Around 2015, I obtained a GTX 570 and used the 570 as my primary GPU power while I used the GTX550Ti as a PhysX card. Shortly after my GTX570 started to artifact, I retired both cards in 2016 and upgraded to a GTX1060 SSC 6GB. It's interesting how gaming was back in the days with 1GB of VRAM.

I just picked up a box of old computer parts in my area for cheap. In the box was several items including a brand new gaming motherboard from the old beginnings of Intel four core and core 2 duo days and also had three of these old fermi graphics cards including the one you showed. I love building these old systems because parts are cheap and plentiful and it helps me to scratch the itch I have for building computers. Not having any money to build modern systems can really be a bummer but I recommend building these older systems with mixed and matched parts for fun. It is also very educational.

I love seeing the shrouds of these old GPUs. It's nice seeing how they grew from these tiny fans on a small extruded heatsink to the big chonkers we have now.

Some surprising results.

My dad has my old 470, it died once when it was 2 years old. I baked it in the oven and it's survived 5 years now. He uses the computer a lot in the winter to heat his room.

Looking at that RDR2 gameplay, i forgot how nostalgic a locked 10 FPS was. I played a lot of Quake 4, Mass Effect 2, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 at 10 to 15 FPS back in the day

I had a fermi card back in 2012, it was gtx 550 ti. I remember having so much fun with it, playing nfs most wanted, gta 4, prototype, etc as it was my first pc build

I have one of these gaming heaters. Solid card. Could be used as a replacement house brick or an anchor when it dies.

I was using a system with an FX 8320e overclocked to 4GHz with a 650ti (2GB) from 2016 up until last Summer. Covid made me get back into PC gaming so I started using it again. I was actually impressed with how many newer games would actually run on it with the settings turned down. I eventually upgraded to a GTX 1650 GDDR6 card when I was able to get one at a decent price. I have a new computer now but that old machine is still up and running to test new games to see how they run on it. Definitely interesting to see old systems still being able to run newer games.

Brings back memories of my triple SLI setup of evga 470s. Overclocked and a triple monitor setup. Toasty memories......

Very nice. My brother had a GTX 460 768mb variant in his Phenom 2 build and that was a daily PC from 2010-2017. Before I built my GTX 760 PC in 2015 I would play games on his computer. The the way the GTX 460 felt is how I gauge newer graphics cards today. I recently purchased a 460 1gb variant for $30 USD and will be seeing how that plays various games in another build I will do soon.

it would be cooler in a case as it would also have case fans cooling it as well

the little bro of legendary thermi series

My Furmi card was awesome. I got GTX465 Asus edition and ran that baby for years. I still use that old rig today for some emulation on my tv and to watch movies and listen to music Great card.

Part of me wonders, because I saw some overclock and modding forums bring up that these chips had an integrated heat spreader, and this could shave some of those degrees if delidded. I tried, and failed, with a 460, but at least I was able to reuse the cooler on a gtx 960.

Brings back memories this one. Was using it until 2015 when ARK came out and it just wasn't enough and had to move to GTX 970

Perfect for the upcoming harsh winter with energy cuts.

Used to run 3x gtx 480s in sli back in the day. They got up to 105deg c with a oc. Never had a issue. One of my mates still run one. The vram was the main killer in the end. Plenty of raw grunt.

I had a GTS 450 back in 2010, when I played AVP 2010 with DX 11 effects for the first time and damn that card was heating up too.

Problem with these card is, they draw up to 215W. With energy bills way up, it will be very expensive in the long run. The GTX 950, on the other hand, is a 90W card with +0.8GB VRAM, +50% performance, and they're very cheap. Heck, I run a GTX 1650 GDDR6 laptop which tops out at 35W and it's 2-3 times faster than this card.

I actually have this card laying around, I was a amazed how pretty well it performed for its age.

The GTX 470 was my first video card in the high-end segment, and also my first nvidia video card. In my city we have very cold winters, but the GTX 470 kept my room properly heated while I played Crysis 2, Metro 2033 and Alan Wake. In my case it was an EVGA GTX 470 (the FTW model)

I had this gpu in 2010 and mine did overclock by a lot. I think i pushed it from 608mhz to 815mhz and it actually got ALOT faster. I wished you had tried it! Damn I miss the old overclocking results :(.

legendary line of cards lol.

I used to put those 460s/470s into cheap gaming PCs for the kids in the village a couple years ago, because you could get them for

The fact you're running with AA on is kind of impressive for this old heat-pusher.

This is a card from the hay day of PC gaming. I remember them fondly.

I think it'd be neat to compare the 400 and 500 series on temps just to show how much better fermi 2 was

I have an MSI Twin Frozr II GTX 480, it’s still hot running but much quieter than the blower style.

Bought a gigabyte 460 1gb dual windforce a few months ago for $10 at the local thrift store. In came in the OG box with everything still inside and looks brand new. Still works well with the exception of the rear fan bearing starting to go which is likely why is was retired.

That Puppy tho :)

The years I had dual gtx 460's and then dual gtx 680's I never had to heat my room during a Minnesota winter.

New to me NVS 5400M Thinkpad has been a real treat. I'm devising a diverse set of games under 70gigs to have on it's ssd. Focus is my top 10 favs & couch multiplayer. Some N64 and SNES emu as well but trying to keep the system around 100games or so, half of those being inside of a few emus. It's really great though portable and unlocked Runs PC versions of PlayStation 3 era games flawlessly. Dark Souls, Street Fighter IV Vanilla, Bomberman 64, Dirt 3, NFS Carbon, Gauntlet Legends, RE6 & Remake, QuakeDP, Zandronum.

Hey Steve just curious could you do a video about the 550ti 2gb in 2022? I really enjoyed this thanks for the video :)

You should review the RX 6700 it is £300 and good at 1440p gaming, one of the best value cards at the moment imo

first card i owned i could rightfully call a beast and i had the best times ever with it.

Been using a 670 in a separate build and it’s been surprisingly capable considering the market we just saw.

Compare the stripped vs normal nvidia drivers for the possible difference in performance

Ran a EVGA GTX 480 1.5GB from 2010 to 2014 I just remember it running really hot under load (90-91C) but it was stable at least, the single blower style cooling used back then just wasn't very good especially on higher end gpu's.

Hey! What kind of car do you drive? I know you’re a little bit of an enthusiast behind the scenes. Anyways thanks for the vid!

small doggo approves! everyone's happy.

I'm not sure about later "blower" style cars, but the 200 and 400 series had some really complex coolers. You needs to take a LOT of screws off especially if there is a backplate on these cards and it's a tricky process. It's typically very easy these days, though EVGA does throw a "hidden" nut in their high end cards to make it more difficult to take apart.

It's a great card for sure to warm these cold winter nights. I didn't expect Stray to run as it did, even on low 720p or GTA V at 1080p. Seems there's still some life left on the 470.

Great for the europeans in this winter, with the gas prices :D It did better then i expected in some games. 🙂

My god I was not prepared for the RDR2 footage. I think I need to stand down.

Steam Deck is almost twice as powerful while it's GPU is consuming less than 10W (remember the 15W TDP is for CPU and GPU combined)... crazy how far we've come.

@RandomGaminginHD which driver do u used in this gpu? I have the same gpu but when i install the driver it gives blue screen with error VIDEO_TDR FAILURE.

Gtx 460 was my first gaming graphics card that time i loved it so much

Oh man I still have this exact same model bought in 2011! Actually I was thinking about making a build for my girlfriend (just desktop use) with a 7700K I have laying around as well.

I'm surprised it still works!

Good vid! You may want to re-test RDR2. I have the 4gb version and in 1080 mid settings I get 47-52 fps... although yours is 2gb, the difference shouldn't be that much.

What an awesome quote "what is this guy doing? Let's give him a quick grenade" LOL! I feel like that should be met with a hardy "Hazzah" XD

hey big fan

could you make a tier list of the gpus you used until now?

My first great gpu. Man I loved this thing, especially after the dismal 3870x2 I bought for $450.😎

If anything it is the vram holding these older cards back despite the lack of driver support but that is news to none these days though it is interesting to find versions of these cards with double the vram or more in rare instances often as Quadro cards. I do have one Fermi card with 4gb vram though it is cut down in other respects.

Used to be the proud owner of a gtx 560 ti, and the fans ran at 1000% percent at all times, sounded like a mini vac

Would you be changing it's thermal paste,and thermal pads,and then trying to see the difference??

i'd love some actual heating in my room, the warmest component in my room is my monitor

Looking at the gas prices the EU/UK will likely have for this winter, those cards might be a good investment.

Unrelated but in the winter I’ve been leaving my computer running raytraced minecraft all night to keep my room warm

Got one for free a year and a half ago in some recycling center (i live in spain), te catch is that it was the board only, no heatsink, so i spend 20€ and 6 months looking for a compatible aftermarket cooler (or a dead card with a compatible cooler), i ended up with a zalman aftermarket cooler, and when i launched the first game (Nier Automata with a mix of mid's lows and high settings at 900p) it honestly surprised me how well it ran the game, the same for the rest of games i tried with it, dropping from 1080p to 900p or 720p it's a good tradeoff to gain some extra frames, unless you wanna run newer games i these 400/500 series gpu's are still quite worthy.

the memory's ^^ had a gtx 480 back in them day's.. kept my room heated whole winter .lol

It reminds me of the time when i had my GTX580 reference design which hitted 102°c easily. Have you been trying to delid those gpus? Once done it gets only easier. But the thing is, a Aftermarket cooler ist needed because of the height changes, those cooler we're designed for GPU DIEs with an Heatspreder. Could help some GPUs of these generations with heating problems.

This has made me want to play Witcher 3 but we're still waiting for the big update 😬

Used a 480 and after that a 770. Solid cards, hot cards :p

I used to have two Nvidia GTX 460s. That was when SLI was still a thing that actually could work.

I used a GTX 470 for a long time and it was a workhorse. Amazing when I think about it.

Would be cool to see the amount of power these older cards pull in comparison to newer cards. Especially as the more recent cards seem to becoming more and more power thirsty

Got a 470 a year ago and it fried my psu but after getting a new one I was very satisfied, gaming at 720p

Had an Asus model...worked about 1 year...wotlk killed IT 😁😁😁

Graphics cards were incredibly cheap back then, I‘ve just looked up that I bought a GTX 460 for 148€ in 2011. But CPUs as well, in the same order was an i5 2500k for 170€, which was quite powerful at the time.