Asus gtx 480

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piotrekhc

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Just picked up Asus GTX 480 for 100 quid I know !! 480 for 100 quid !!, and so far so good temps Idle 40C load 2h on Heaven Benchamerk highest ive seen is 81C fans spins up to 57% so to be honest no so loud over my other fans in case overall very very happy !!, went from evga 260ssc. 3dmark Vantage score from 13500 to 21k

Greeen Is Better !!
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3dmark11 p4886, my cpu hold it back
 
Nice, got yourself a good deal there!

The 480, while hotter and more power hungry than the newer 500 series cards, is still very good. Give the fan a little boost in MSI Afterburner and you shouldn't break 80c...not that 80c is that hot for a 480 mind!

Next step - water cool it! 480's were meant to be under water, my friend runs two in SLI and they rarely break 45c despite being at 850 core.

You CPU shouldn't hold it back too much I would have thought.

Cheers,

Scoob.
 
Scoob said:
Nice, got yourself a good deal there!

The 480, while hotter and more power hungry than the newer 500 series cards, is still very good. Give the fan a little boost in MSI Afterburner and you shouldn't break 80c...not that 80c is that hot for a 480 mind!

Next step - water cool it! 480's were meant to be under water, my friend runs two in SLI and they rarely break 45c despite being at 850 core.

You CPU shouldn't hold it back too much I would have thought.

Cheers,

Scoob.
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my 560ti is on 950 core....
 
piotrekhc said:
nope I live in UK room temps around 20-21 I can put some screen shoots if u dun believe me
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To many stereotypes about 480`s
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Well, they are quite hot and they do use a fair bit of power but they still work well and the stock fan can usually keep the temps in check as you've found. They certainly aren't as bad as some seem to think.

My friends 480's have been working well in SLI, far far better than his previous pair of 4870x2's did. He is under water now of course so heat really isn't an issue.

As you're on air cooling just ensure that the 480 has a good cool air feed to it (depending on your case design of course) - If it uses the sort of after market cooler that vents hot air into the case, just add an extractor fan to the side panel (over the card) if you can. It's what I've done as while my orignal 570 vents externally, the (newer design) 2nd card vents more into the case...

At £100 you've got every reason to be happy with your purchase!
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Cheers,

Scoob.
 
Ya93sin said:
That looks very sweet, but all the heat must have gone right to your screen, it's on fire
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Different cards, my 580 is at 900MHz core at times, doesn't make it inferior to a 560Ti lmao
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I'd say there's more silicon on that desktop wallpaper than there is in his PC lol
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Yeah quite often, for a given generation, the lower model cards will clock higher (and ship with higher clocks quite often too) as they have less silicon to power so to speak.

I've run my single 570 at 950mhz with 1.1v on the core - I could unlock this limit and likely push it to 1000mhz if I wanted to, but I'd need better cooling and ideally water.

One of the good things about going SLI is that I in no way need to overclock my GPU's now - of course I DO still overclock them (850mhz at the mo) just for the fun of it, but all I get for that is better bench scores, games are not any better to play as they're already perfectly smooth. Actually I did just drop my cards back to stock to test that theory and, as I was just gaming, forgot I'd done so.

I think an overclocked 2500k + 2x 570's for SLI is almost the perfect sweet-spot combo at the moment. If I go full water as I plan, I could likely boost both CPU and GPU clocks some more, while remaining cool and quiet.

Cheers,

Scoob.
 
I read info on the transistor used in the GF100 GTX480/470 chip & GF110 GTX580/570 chip is different. The GF110 transistor is slower, produces less heat, uses less electricity, spills less electricity than the GF100 and I guess that means it can respectably be clocked higher.

With you nVidia control pannel 3D setting you should be able to get the temps up!
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I cant believe myself 480 runs cooler than my evga gtx 260 ssc, I`ve got HWmonitor running all the time and after all day session of metro, mw2, codBO,countless 3dMarks loops heaven benchmark max 82C, happy
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if u can get one cheap and u got a good airflow in ur case dun be afraid
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That looks very good. Surely the 580 isn't that much better than the 480 though? I have P6117, so that's like 20% between just those GPUs. Maybe I'm just ignorant.

Did you OC your CPU too?
 
piotrekhc said:
overclockers.co.uk in B grade section from time to time u can get a awesome deal, got 3 months warranty and whatever is left from Asus,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=595&catid=683
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I think you did really well there, also the card is performing better than many expect temperature-wise as evidenced by the posts here
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These are powerful cards. I thought the only difference (bar the disabled bits on the chip) were the FP16 units being twice as good on the newer GPUs? Note: this is NOT just a 500 series improvement as the GTX 460 also had the better FP16 units.

Scoob.
 
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