 |
|
21-12-10, 03:18 PM
|
|
OC3D Crew
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 525
|
|
Old wine in new bottle or a new trick to clear out old stocks?
Read more
__________________
the WriterZ... Creativity through Words
|
21-12-10, 03:38 PM
|
|
Newbie
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: My House
Posts: 3
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gaurang
Old wine in new bottle or a new trick to clear out old stocks?
Read more |
Well whichever way you look at it , it makes the card interesting to the more budget minded now with lower temps and the prices dropping ...
|
21-12-10, 03:45 PM
|
|
OC3D Elite
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Manchester
Posts: 4,536
|
|
|
hmmm to late now IMO giga should be concentrating on the 570 and 580
|
21-12-10, 08:06 PM
|
 |
OC3D Elite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: On Mars as an anthropologist
Posts: 5,362
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by AMDFTW
hmmm to late now IMO giga should be concentrating on the 570 and 580
|
That would depend on what they paid Nvidia for the cards and what they can sell them for 
I had a fiddle with my 470 today. Hopefully Tom will put the review live soon. You can see then what a well cooled 470 is capable of, let alone a 480 that could be rather cheap 
__________________
Alienware Area 51 ALX chassis. Intel Xeon E3-1220 V1 @ 3.4ghz.12gb Mushkin Radioactive/Blackline. Palit GTX 670 Jetstream X2. MSI Z77A-G45. Corsair H60. 1200W Newton Labs 80+ Silver. 2X 120gb Corsair Force SSDs. 6x 500gb Seagate Pipeline.DVDRW.
|
21-12-10, 08:51 PM
|
|
Advanced Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 431
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by AlienALX
That would depend on what they paid Nvidia for the cards and what they can sell them for
I had a fiddle with my 470 today. Hopefully Tom will put the review live soon. You can see then what a well cooled 470 is capable of, let alone a 480 that could be rather cheap |
You can get a rather nice 470 for about £200 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1280m...-dvi-i-dp-hdmi my personal market favourite since thats the GS edition
__________________
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved
Nicolo Machiavelli
|
21-12-10, 11:04 PM
|
|
Advanced Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: You are here.
Posts: 269
|
|
|
It's a little too late. Even if it performs better both thermally and acoustically your best bet is to go with the GTX570 since the 480 will still draw a considerable amount of more power.
__________________
There are more things in heaven and earth then are dreamt of in your philosophy.
|
21-12-10, 11:36 PM
|
|
OC3D Elite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: On Mars as an anthropologist
Posts: 5,362
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sihastru
It's a little too late. Even if it performs better both thermally and acoustically your best bet is to go with the GTX570 since the 480 will still draw a considerable amount of more power.
|
No, it won't. The 570 is throttled. Turn off that throttle? It'll chew down as much power. The 570, to all intents and purposes is a 480.
__________________
Alienware Area 51 ALX chassis. Intel Xeon E3-1220 V1 @ 3.4ghz.12gb Mushkin Radioactive/Blackline. Palit GTX 670 Jetstream X2. MSI Z77A-G45. Corsair H60. 1200W Newton Labs 80+ Silver. 2X 120gb Corsair Force SSDs. 6x 500gb Seagate Pipeline.DVDRW.
|
21-12-10, 11:38 PM
|
|
OC3D Elite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: On Mars as an anthropologist
Posts: 5,362
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by murphy7801
|
Was £189 on Overclockers a couple of days back. £199 now. My 470 with the Zalman on cost £208.
This is why the 470 and 480 need to be watched. If Gigabyte can roll this thing out for £220 or less? cracking bargain.
Ed. Apols for the double post.. Tired..
__________________
Alienware Area 51 ALX chassis. Intel Xeon E3-1220 V1 @ 3.4ghz.12gb Mushkin Radioactive/Blackline. Palit GTX 670 Jetstream X2. MSI Z77A-G45. Corsair H60. 1200W Newton Labs 80+ Silver. 2X 120gb Corsair Force SSDs. 6x 500gb Seagate Pipeline.DVDRW.
|
22-12-10, 12:25 PM
|
|
Advanced Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: You are here.
Posts: 269
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by AlienALX
No, it won't. The 570 is throttled. Turn off that throttle? It'll chew down as much power. The 570, to all intents and purposes is a 480.
|
Well, even with the power limiter on (and it ONLY comes on with OCCT/Furmark & Co.) it performs better. During gaming the power limiter doesn't have an adverse effect on performance. So why would anyone disable it?
__________________
There are more things in heaven and earth then are dreamt of in your philosophy.
|
22-12-10, 12:41 PM
|
|
OC3D Elite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: On Mars as an anthropologist
Posts: 5,362
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sihastru
Well, even with the power limiter on (and it ONLY comes on with OCCT/Furmark & Co.) it performs better. During gaming the power limiter doesn't have an adverse effect on performance. So why would anyone disable it?
|
TBH I would go off and research just what a 480 can do. IIRC the world record Vantage score was set on a 480.
You're correct though. The limiter doesn't have an effect on the 570 and 80 during gameplay. But then the 480 wouldn't use the full power during gameplay either. The only reason the throttling was put in place was to stop people demonstrating just how hot and loud even the 5 series can be, including power consumption. And oddly it's only really Furmark and a couple of others that ever made the 480 use that much power too.
__________________
Alienware Area 51 ALX chassis. Intel Xeon E3-1220 V1 @ 3.4ghz.12gb Mushkin Radioactive/Blackline. Palit GTX 670 Jetstream X2. MSI Z77A-G45. Corsair H60. 1200W Newton Labs 80+ Silver. 2X 120gb Corsair Force SSDs. 6x 500gb Seagate Pipeline.DVDRW.
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 09:11 AM.
