Gigabyte gtx480 soc

[kilobravo]

Sooo tempted too buy one.

Same price as a standard gtx570 here i Denmark.

But i was saving some money,for a bulldozer cpu,if its worth folding.

Release date sometime in september,i am curious.

Oc´ed it will be 20k+ ppd.Reading Toms review,i am more tempted.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gigabyte_gtx480_soc_review/1

 

[riotcity76]

Do these get more ppd than 580s? How's the power draw?

 

[kilobravo]

Something like 1k ppd less than a gtx580,and its recommended to have 40A available just for the gtx480 soc.Something like 430w powerdraw i think.

But it would replace my to asus gtx460 or the asus gtx560,they are annoyingly loud compared to my gigabyte gtx4xx gpu`s.

 

[riotcity76]

430 watts! That's insane! It'd probably be better to go 2 x 560Tis in that case.

 

[Rastalovich]

430 watts! That's insane! It'd probably be better to go 2 x 560Tis in that case.

430 !

That'd mean the rig I put together for someone with a 600w psu is using 170w for everything else in it...

.. it'd never boot.

 

[NickCPC]

Nah, no single GPU available today running at its original factory speed (even the Gigabyte SOCs) will be guzzling 430W on their own. My rig when I had my old 570 (must update my sig!) when at 850/1000 and my CPU at 4.7 never went over 330W (100% load on both, though I found it was actually lower when F@H), and I do not believe that any factory-speed 480, which is fundamentally extremely similar to a 570, will take that much extra juice.

 

[kilobravo]

Sorry,my bad.Was rushing through reviews.Did a more careful read.It was a total system powerdraw of 430w.

 

[kilobravo]

Wanted that gtx480 soc really bad,but had to think right also.

With a sparre r3e from a rma,i found an i7-970,1 month old for the same price 250£ with original receipt

Turned up to be a good deal.Was linx stable at 4.4ghz @ 1.325v

,but it was a little too hot,like 78-81c

Now folding at 4.2ghz @ 1.285v,max 65c .Need to save some money now to get that cpu under water now

 

[riotcity76]

Awesome! I'm thinking at that speed you could probably pull at least 80k+ ppd from it if you ran it in a Linux VM (native is even better) using the bigbeta flag.

 

[kilobravo]

One rig is running ubuntu with bigbeta flag,but it only get like 3-4 bigbeta wu`s a month.Normal big wu`s has a tpf at 20min spot on.

When i get the new cpu under water,i will have it folding in linux.