GeForce GTX 480 Serious competitor for best value GPU on the market.

[Damien c]

I had a GTX 480 and it was good, although it was power hungry.

The temp's were never really much of a issue for me as they never caused crashes or anything even when hitting around 95c, but the noise was so bad that I could hear the fan when gaming.

The fan on the card would crank up to around 80% and was louder than 12 2500rpm fans running at 12v, as I could hear the graphics card over the top of the radiator fans I had at the time, when noise was not a issue.

I still remember touching the back of the card after a long gaming session and having to take it off, straight away because if I had left it on any longer it would have burnt my finger.

 

[seumasbeathan]

I had a GTX 480 and it was good, although it was power hungry.

The temp's were never really much of a issue for me as they never caused crashes or anything even when hitting around 95c, but the noise was so bad that I could hear the fan when gaming.

The fan on the card would crank up to around 80% and was louder than 12 2500rpm fans running at 12v, as I could hear the graphics card over the top of the radiator fans I had at the time, when noise was not a issue.

I still remember touching the back of the card after a long gaming session and having to take it off, straight away because if I had left it on any longer it would have burnt my finger.

You say the temps weren't an issue but yet you then say they went up to 95c? No card should ever be getting that hot

 

[SnW]

You say the temps weren't an issue but yet you then say they went up to 95c? No card should ever be getting that hot

It wasn't a issue for him personally (no problems)
i had cards doing 103c (GTX260's) F@H 24/7

 

[iBeInspire]

It wasn't a issue for him personally (no problems)
i had cards doing 103c (GTX260's) F@H 24/7

Oh wow, I thought my old 7950GT running at 92 degrees was bad xDD
Did you use them for cooking eggs/bacon, or just bog-standard folding..?

 

[SnW]

Oh wow, I thought my old 7950GT running at 92 degrees was bad xDD
Did you use them for cooking eggs/bacon, or just bog-standard folding..?

As a heating for my home :lol:

 

[Damien c]

You say the temps weren't an issue but yet you then say they went up to 95c? No card should ever be getting that hot

The temp's were not a issue because I had seen people running the cards at up to 110c and were fine, but generally the card stayed at around 85c and only went up to 95c on the odd occasion.

 

[photekq]

The 480 is an absolutely smashing card. I know that a lot of people say it runs too hot but in my experience it wasn't even that bad and it maxed out anything at 1080p. I bought one second hand for £100 at a LAN and it lasted me a good year or two. Unfortunately it died on me a few months back, and now I'm stuck using two EVGA 560ti 448 Classifieds. The 480 is now a coaster

 

[NRG!]

The 480 is an absolutely smashing card. I know that a lot of people say it runs too hot but in my experience it wasn't even that bad and it maxed out anything at 1080p. I bought one second hand for £100 at a LAN and it lasted me a good year or two. Unfortunately it died on me a few months back, and now I'm stuck using two EVGA 560ti 448 Classifieds. The 480 is now a coaster

If I may make a suggestion..

remove the cooler, place the card that way round on a baking tray and bake at max heat for half an hour.

retrieve the gpu core, drill a hole in the corner.

BOOM. GTX 480 KEYRING

 

[photekq]

If I may make a suggestion..

remove the cooler, place the card that way round on a baking tray and bake at max heat for half an hour.

retrieve the gpu core, drill a hole in the corner.

BOOM. GTX 480 KEYRING

That's a good idea.. I might do that.

 

[dalewakelin]

I like the coaster, Logan at tek syndicate has a 480 coaster too i think.

 

[piotrekhc]

I had gtx 480 from Asus over year and a half paid 100quid for it as a b grade product, and it was cool and quiet never went above 82C maxed out almost everything, 59%fan speed. Recently i have updated to 670 ftw my gf bday treat.
Any one who say gtx 480 is a fail it is simply wrong.

 

[Scoob]

I have to agree.

A friend picked a couple up at £150-170 quite a while back, SLI'd and water cooled these have been epic cards & are still doing the business now. They replaced his pair of 4870x2's (4 GPU's) which had been problematic since he got them.

Scoob.

 

[alienware]

I had gtx 480 from Asus over year and a half paid 100quid for it as a b grade product, and it was cool and quiet never went above 82C maxed out almost everything, 59%fan speed. Recently i have updated to 670 ftw my gf bday treat.
Any one who say gtx 480 is a fail it is simply wrong.

It all depends on what you play. I had a pair of GTX 295s in SLI (so quad SLI) butted right up to one another (no choice, MATX but was only for testing) and everything was fine on them until I ran BF3 or NFS : The Run. At which point they would merrily shut down my PC.

In SLI spaced well apart the same could be said for the 480s. They were completely well behaved until you really gave them something to stress over at which point they became obnoxiously loud and guzzled down power. They would go to high 80s which was well within Nvidia's acceptable limits (I however disagree, just because a core can take it doesn't mean the ROHS solder can !)

They're fast cards but they are problematic and that's just a fact I'm afraid. If they weren't then the 5xx series probably would never have happened. The very fact they fitted better low leakage ICs and VRMs says it all. Well, that and a better cooler. Otherwise why would they have done any of that?

At £150 brand new (especially the fact they're EVGA and thus you'd probably get something far better back on an RMA) they're quite good value. But they do have their caveats and water cooling them is very expensive.