Gigabyte Equips GeForce GTX 480 with WindForce 3X Cooler

[gaurang]

Old wine in new bottle or a new trick to clear out old stocks?

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[Tingez]

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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 ...

 

[AMDFTW]

hmmm to late now IMO giga should be concentrating on the 570 and 580

 

[alienware]

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

 

[murphy7801]

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/1280...ddr5-gpu-650mhz-448-cores-2x-dl-dvi-i-dp-hdmi my personal market favourite since thats the GS edition

 

[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.

 

[alienware]

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]

You can get a rather nice 470 for about £200 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1280...ddr5-gpu-650mhz-448-cores-2x-dl-dvi-i-dp-hdmi my personal market favourite since thats the GS edition

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..

 

[Sihastru]

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?

 

[alienware]

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.

 

[Sihastru]

Yes, but I've seen reviews trying to work around that and testing power consumption during Metro/Crysis/3DMark, and the GTX570 was almost 40-80W more efficient then the GTX480. That's a big difference.