Following yesterdays first look at the new nVidia beast, today we go playing with a pair, courtesy of ASUS
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OC3D Review Asus GTX580 SLI Exclusive Review
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Blackwhite
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WOW I want them
It is a shame that I bought 2x460 SLI - I should wait and buy 1x580 from Asus.
It is a shame that I bought 2x460 SLI - I should wait and buy 1x580 from Asus.
Runebeard
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Wow wow wow wow wow! That's just insane performance! And it runs faster, quieter AND cooler than the Zotac! What is there to criticise? Well possibly the price, for those of us with out a job at the moment. But, post release of the 69xx series later his month, I'm banking on that dropping by as much as £50 if it comes anywhere near this in performance. Looks like I'll have to start saving up the reddies!
thestepster
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best part of the review
murphy7801
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WOW I want them
It is a shame that I bought 2x460 SLI - I should wait and buy 1x580 from Asus.
Yer me too the only put off was the heat power of the gtx 480 had the cash it makes me sad oh well have do a rebuild in 6 months then
Nice review Tom.. I like the Asus cards being plain jane.
Did the performance dip down at all when you had it clocked up to 950MHz on the core at all?? If it didn't then the issue of the card throttling before any decent overclocking can be done is blown out the windows.
Does look like you had a poo poo Zotac though.
Oh yeah and the SLI scaling in Metro is pretty decent.
Did the performance dip down at all when you had it clocked up to 950MHz on the core at all?? If it didn't then the issue of the card throttling before any decent overclocking can be done is blown out the windows.
Does look like you had a poo poo Zotac though.
Oh yeah and the SLI scaling in Metro is pretty decent.
No it wasnt everything is on max and all enabled dude.
Not a sausage mate although we did have the fans on 100% (as mentioned) as its just a way to show whats possible.
Na that's cool... that's one of the questions I asked in Brians review yesterday.
It's all getting rather confusing ay.
I know the card throttles if you use furmark or occt from logic in the card somewhere but I'm not sure what other throttling it'll do. Perhaps the furmark and occt are done on TDP while the rest of the throttling will come in to effect when the card gets too hot.
That would make sense as Nvidia did say that the throttling wouldn't effect gaming in the way it does the torture tests.
I don't bloody know, just theorising.
Anyway, it does show that a nice aftermarket cooler should allow some nice beefy overclocks that definitely have a decent effect on frame rates.
It's all getting rather confusing ay.
I know the card throttles if you use furmark or occt from logic in the card somewhere but I'm not sure what other throttling it'll do. Perhaps the furmark and occt are done on TDP while the rest of the throttling will come in to effect when the card gets too hot.
That would make sense as Nvidia did say that the throttling wouldn't effect gaming in the way it does the torture tests.
I don't bloody know, just theorising.
Anyway, it does show that a nice aftermarket cooler should allow some nice beefy overclocks that definitely have a decent effect on frame rates.
Tom, you honestly have the best job in the world. My nose would be sore from smelling all the brand new parts. Great review, nice to see that nVidia have a winner this time around in not only performance, but also keeping things cool. What kind of wattage do these cards use at load?
Finally YouTube has let me upload the game play video (been trying since 4am) so I have added it to the review.
Here it is for the forum go-ers anyways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJsdeD4m-M
Here it is for the forum go-ers anyways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJsdeD4m-M
alienware
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In V1.0 of Batman you could enable everything but it didn't work. Your video of it running looks like this.
Which is this
Physx off. Physx on?
The rolling benchmark looks completely different with Physx enabled mush.
Found another comparisson shot. Off
On
IDK then fella as its all maxed out, and i bought the game from Steam so its not an old copy or cracked or owt.
alienware
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Ahh OK dude I see. Yeah something is deffo amiss there.
Doesn't matter really, but man, this game with Physx on is a sight to behold tbh. In the benchmark it's literally smoke and cobwebs. In the game? tiles smash, scenery breaks. Absolutely amazing stuff.
Ed. What I mean by doesn't matter.. In a benchmark as long as it's the same across the different hardware you are generating a comparisson. Those cards will absolutely eat Physx up any way
Edit. Again where are my manners. Thanks for the review chaps. Gives a man a chance to see how the rich and filthy live
Haha it's a good thing for you guys really. You have all the top end expensive stuff which makes me not want it as badly
Doesn't matter really, but man, this game with Physx on is a sight to behold tbh. In the benchmark it's literally smoke and cobwebs. In the game? tiles smash, scenery breaks. Absolutely amazing stuff.
Ed. What I mean by doesn't matter.. In a benchmark as long as it's the same across the different hardware you are generating a comparisson. Those cards will absolutely eat Physx up any way
Edit. Again where are my manners. Thanks for the review chaps. Gives a man a chance to see how the rich and filthy live
Haha it's a good thing for you guys really. You have all the top end expensive stuff which makes me not want it as badly
best part of the review
when i saw that in the review just made me laugh
but yeah nice cards, only if i had the money
though i still love my 460s
