Gainward Phantom GTX570 Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 17th January 2011 | Source: Gainward | Price: TBC |
Introduction
The GTX570 has been one of the big surprises of recent times, fixing all the issues of the original Fermi nVidia cards and performing incredibly well for the reasonable price charged. With a good chip you can expect to overclock it up to stock GTX580 speeds.
Unquestionably it's the card we'd recommend as the major player on the market at the moment.
Gainward have been producing graphics cards for a very long time. Indeed your authors first upgrade after the Voodoo 2 and Riva TNT days was to a Gainward model.
The most famous of the Gainward series is unquestionably the Golden Sample labelled cards which come with a good factory overclock and always managed to go further still.
Today however we have a new model from them labelled the Phantom. The surprise being that rather than concentrate on pushing the Silicon as hard as possible they've brought us a very different looking cooling solution indeed and only overclocked the GPU mildly.
Technical Specifications
A quick look at the specifications shows that the apart from the 18MHz GPU overclock the Gainward Phantom is very much a standard card.
| Product Name : | Gainward GeForce® GTX 570 1280MB "Phantom" |
| GPU : | GeForce GTX 570 |
| GPU Clockspeed : | 750 Mhz |
| Memory : | 1280MB GDDR5 (320 bits) |
| Memory Clockspeed : | 1950 Mhz |
| Pixels per clock (peak) : | N/A |
| Bandwidth : | 156 GB/s |
| Ramdac : | 400 MHz |
| Bus : | PCI-Express 2.0 |
| Cooling : | 2.5-Slot/Three Fans cooler |
| Video-Features : | HDMI |
| Connectivity : | Dual DVI-I, DisplayPort |
Of course the cooler is the real selling point of this, so let's move on and take a look at that.
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Is it just me or was this designed specifically to match the Gigabyte P67A-UD7... they would look so sexy together 
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QuoteMan That card is quite sexy, Great review I was laughing Most of it! Gainward needs 2 start selling in the US 
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lolzQuoteNow that is one fine looking card, shame it takes up 3 PCI slots, so I don't think you'll be able to run it in 16x/16x SLI on the UD-7.Quote
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Now that is one fine looking card, shame it takes up 3 PCI slots, so I don't think you'll be able to run it in 16x/16x SLI on the UD-7. |
What does bryan mean by less standard ways of increasing the voltage? Does it work for the gtx580Quote
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What does bryan mean by less standard ways of increasing the voltage? Does it work for the gtx580 |
What do the fans sound like when you crank them to 100%? Even though you probably wouldn't need to, but some of us might live in warmer climates and with global warming you never know 
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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. |
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How do you bypass that? Maybe you could make a guide or something? |
Anyway, good looking card but the performance is somewhat disappointing. I had higher hopes for the 570 considering its price.Quote
Any idea when the rough ETA for this card is?
Would make a tastey silent addition to the D14 i have on the way.Quote
Would make a tastey silent addition to the D14 i have on the way.Quote
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?Quote
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.
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This does give me high hopes for the gainward GLH gtx 570Quote
Still the 570
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So it begs the question The GTX570 or the ATI 6970? Inquiring minds want to know......  |
You can also remove the price TBC
http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase17.5&prodID=B566551
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http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase17.5&prodID=B566551
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So it begs the question The GTX570 or the ATI 6970? Inquiring minds want to know...... |
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If you're going to go with two cards or more 6970, since it scales better. But for just a single card 570 all the way. |
Wouldn't necessarily trust them as they always seems to quote low to get the traffic through Google shopping searches then when you click check stock, they are 80% of the time out of stock.
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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. |
Ummm TTL, I've never seen you drooling so hard... mebbe you should play Crysis BEFORE you strip sexy cards..? You owe me a KB by the way.. ROFLMAO!Quote
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Wouldn't necessarily trust them as they always seems to quote low to get the traffic through Google shopping searches then when you click check stock, they are 80% of the time out of stock. |
Ahh fair enough.. £30 premium for the cooler which isn't bad I guess if it actually helped.Quote
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Ahh fair enough.. £30 premium for the cooler which isn't bad I guess if it actually helped. |
I have one of these. It's alright, unlocking voltages can be done with the new afterburner beta.
3gb 580 version looks like a beast
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3gb 580 version looks like a beast
QuoteI have this card and I'm fairly happy with it, 36c idle, 64c load, nice temps. The fan is nearly silent up to 50%
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On 100% fan speed, it sounds like an hair dryer
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I have one of these. It's alright, unlocking voltages can be done with the new afterburner beta. 3gb 580 version looks like a beast |
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