PNY GeForce GTX570 Enthusiast Edition Review

Today we are using an AMD system running the Phenom II X2 555BE unlocked to a Phenom II X4 B55. We used the Arctic Freezer 13 Pro to cool our CPU which is overclocked to 4.02ghz. We built our test system using the NZXT Phantom chassis and are powering it with the Corsair HX850 modular PSU.

Processor: Phenom II X4 B55 @ 4.01ghz
Cooling: Arctic Freezer 13 Pro
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H v2
Graphics: PNY GTX 570 1280MB
Chassis: NZXT Phantom
Power Supply: Corsair HX850
Memory: 4GB GSkill DDR III 1600 MHz @ 6-8-6-24
Storage: SATA II Kingston SSD V Series 64GB (OS boot) 2 x 500GB SATA II WD Black (Raid 0)
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 245BW (Digital)

System validation is available here.

Comparison Graphics card: Sapphire 6950 (unlocked with 1536 unified shaders)

Software:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1
Catalyst 11.3
Forceware 267.24

Alien vs Predator Benchmark
UniGine Heaven Benchmark 2.5
3DMark Vantage 1.1.0
3DMark 11
Fraps Professional
Furmark
Steam Client
TessMark
Stone Giant

Games:
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Call of Duty Black Ops
Crysis Warhead
Mafia II
Metro 2033

All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests all games across five closely matched runs and average out the results to get an accurate median figure.

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