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  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclocked Edition Video Card Review

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    Left 4 Dead 2

    With flesh eating zombies coming after you in endless waves Left 4 Dead 2 does push your hardware beyond what is seen in most games. The storyline is simple; you and 3 survivors are dropped into the middle of a zombie apocalypse and must find safety among the hordes of dead.

    Left 4 Dead 2 is based on DirectX 9 technology and plays well on a variety of hardware.
    When testing Left 4 Dead 2 all of the settings were turned up to their highest, and Anisotropic Filtering was turned to 16X. Anti-Aliasing was turned to 8X to smooth out all of those jagged edges for a crisp visual experience.
    The GTX 470 gets to trump the Radeon 5870 in L4D2 with just a little edge over it. The Reference GTX 470 does not have a fighting chance to get close to the Gigabyte GTX 470 SOC performance.