GeForce GTX 480 Serious competitor for best value GPU on the market.
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OcSurfer
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The 7870 at it's total power draw will cost you 20 pounds extra a month, the 480 will cost you 1,000 pounds more a month.
Good side is, the UK will gain more power stations.
More powerstation is a bad thing!
JMMP
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+1 OcSurfer
JMMP
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Temperature results for the GTX 480:
7870 Temperature results:
That extra 10-15c more helps create what is only known as a disaster.
Apply that in global warming!!
iBeInspire
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Well this was a laugh to read xDD
iBeInspire
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At the end of the day, for £150 you can do alot worse, but for £170 you can do alot better.
If you need the best card for EXACTLY £150, go GTX480, and 650w PSU xD
Or shuffle around, save £20 by going with a 500w and get yourself a Tahiti LE.
Unless your folding, not really a worthy upgrade in today's world...
If you need the best card for EXACTLY £150, go GTX480, and 650w PSU xD
Or shuffle around, save £20 by going with a 500w and get yourself a Tahiti LE.
Unless your folding, not really a worthy upgrade in today's world...
dalewakelin
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Oh gawd, im emptying my bladder laughing XD
Josh Weston
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Ooohkay then, so, you've had your laughs. No more sarcasm, no more sardonicism. If you have something constructive to say, say it, but that's it. From both sides of the fence.
If such ramblings continue, i'll simply close the thread, and you'll all be on warning. Hope y'all understand.
If such ramblings continue, i'll simply close the thread, and you'll all be on warning. Hope y'all understand.
Recon-UK
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dalewakelin
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So on a serious note, i would probably have bought the 480 if i hadnt of read this thread. It has the same same cooler as a quadro 6000 and thats probably the only reason why and because of cuda as i am an adobe user. The 480 probably would be the better card in my case as i dont pay the electricity bill and noise and heat arnt that much of a big deal. A 7870 is the better choice for the average gamer though.
Rastalovich
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Saw eVGA were flogging 4xx series cards reconditioned before christmas. Seen some 580 cards around more recently too.
Think the guarantee is for like 3 months, but I did notice the seller also had in their defined warranty description for 1 year (which I quickly took a save of the webpage for legal reasons).
Around £160 for both a 480 and a 470, to go in a game rig and a cuda transcoding rig is pretty good imo. Seeing as the 480 broke all the records in it's time, despite being trashed by overclocker-heathens, I did turn to Icy.. Cool.. something, 3rd party coolers and clocked the crap out of them. (well the 470 has it coming).
If you aint getting them dirt cheap, and have a plan in mind, buying them in this day'n'age is... well, silly really. We'll almost be talking 3 generations old and the newest drivers aren't the best to use on them.
Is pretty shocking tho that 3rd generation tech still kicks a games butt. Don't be worrying about the vRam, your 2000+ jiggahurtz ddr3 main memory will cope with any overspill at a minimal reduction in potential fps.
Think the guarantee is for like 3 months, but I did notice the seller also had in their defined warranty description for 1 year (which I quickly took a save of the webpage for legal reasons).
Around £160 for both a 480 and a 470, to go in a game rig and a cuda transcoding rig is pretty good imo. Seeing as the 480 broke all the records in it's time, despite being trashed by overclocker-heathens, I did turn to Icy.. Cool.. something, 3rd party coolers and clocked the crap out of them. (well the 470 has it coming).
If you aint getting them dirt cheap, and have a plan in mind, buying them in this day'n'age is... well, silly really. We'll almost be talking 3 generations old and the newest drivers aren't the best to use on them.
Is pretty shocking tho that 3rd generation tech still kicks a games butt. Don't be worrying about the vRam, your 2000+ jiggahurtz ddr3 main memory will cope with any overspill at a minimal reduction in potential fps.
NRG!
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agree on all counts except the vram.
when you *run out* of vram you won't be playing your game.
Recon-UK
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Make yourselves useful, and contribute to this 
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=50085
From personal experience, the latest drivers correspond to all GPU's that are in the supported list in the drivers, there is a large gain from 285 to 210.70, here is my proof:
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=608789#post608789
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=50085
From personal experience, the latest drivers correspond to all GPU's that are in the supported list in the drivers, there is a large gain from 285 to 210.70, here is my proof:
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=608789#post608789
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Rastalovich
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Not like the 690 stops play tho, with the 3 screen videos you see of it.
4G, but is like 2g cards in sli.
NRG!
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If it fully saturated it's vram and had to use the system ram, the fps would be single digits. (That was what I meant).
