Who the hell is gonna get a 470 on air even remotely close to 900 mhz what are you smoking I had a 470 and could barely even run it at 800mhz and most can't even hit that. An a 470 at 900 mhz is not even as fast as a 580 let alone smoking one. At best its around the same speed.
i would go for the 7950 best bung for the buck get the ghz edition and oc it to the max and you get 7970 perf win win situation
you get commision don't ya? yeah very boring to read, oh here we go again with some more amd marketing in the nvidia section.
Obviously you dont know what youre talking about. Ive had a 470 that hit 950mhz on air on a cold day, that was a good bit faster than my 580 Lightning at stock, at 900 mhz it still faster than a stock 580. Tell me did you ever test this yourself? Thought not. Cause i did.
At about 800MHz if I remember correctly Crysis would get my 470GTX to about 100C with the fan set at 100%, and that was with an open case and not in summer, but I guess with a really good sample... Anyway, I had several profiles, an underclocked-undervolted one for older games, 735MHz for regular games and 800 for benching.
I didn't use the stock air cooler, was a accelero xtreme plus cooler, at stock load temps were high 40s
I recommended what I think is the best bang for buck atm in that price range. many agree. I know this is nvidia section but people often post in the wrong sections, I see "amd vs nvidia which one to get" threads in nvidia and in amd section more than where I should see them (general section). At least I came into this thread to try to help the OP, unlike you, who came here for one reason, to attack me.
Its plenty. Specially if he is only running 1080 resolution. I had my 470 benching 48.8fps in Heaven, with one 660Ti I was able to hit overclocked 87-88fps. (mind you the core was boost speed at 1187mhz.) I was also able turn all the settings in BF3 all the way up. Couldn't do that on the 470, never mind the heat on top of it. It is still quite the upgrade.