OC3D Review nVidia GTX570

[thestepster]

i wont be running them as tri sli, basically 3 of them for folding purposes! and gamin even tho dunno how they fold wasnt in the review

cause those new 6800's are really heavy

 

[AMDFTW]

yer i assumed you would be folding lol.

if it can be done then do it mate

 

[thestepster]

yeah too right i think i might wait off on my first one till the non reference ones come out with voltage tweaking

 

[alienware]

wouldent sli 460s beat it?

Right about the same I would imagine.

A single 470 can score around the 20k mark in Vantage on performance (the regular setting at the beginning). A 460 scores around 16k IIRC. SLI gives you about 70% speed boost so let's guess at the 30k mark tops. A 570 seems to do a good job of that. And, when you consider that a pair of 460s is slightly faster than a stock 480, and that a 570 is slightly faster than a stock 480..

Seems about balanced to me. However, you have one card, cooler, pulling less power and putting out the same results. It's about chuffing time Nvidia gave THAT kind of performance to price on a single card. Cos up until THIS card they were out pricing all of their single cards with SLI lmao.

For example. A pair of 450s poos on a 470. A pair of 460s poos on a 480. A pair of either is considerably cheaper and cooler than the big boys.

Mind you, ATI were doing it too

Bloody silly billies

 

[Heebs]

I cant wait for next week, going to be awesome with the hopeful renewal of the price wars for Christmas shopping!

Going to have to sell my 460 Hawk

 

[thestepster]

u can get 30-31k with 768 460's 1gb's do a decent bit more

 

[alienware]

u can get 30-31k with 768 460's 1gb's do a decent bit more

Seems about perfectly matched then really. So, no point at all in switching unless -

You want less noise and power consumption.

You intend on using more than one to get more PPD out of less slots. Or, more PPD out of the same ammount of slots.

Personally bro I wouldn't bother. At least not for now

I cant wait for next week, going to be awesome with the hopeful renewal of the price wars for Christmas shopping!

Going to have to sell my 460 Hawk

You absolutely and utterly will not get one of these on the cheap. They are the newest technology and the price will not drop.

What is likely to happen is that we will see a repeat of ATI's chrimbo bo**ocks and they will sell out til March and then go up in price

 

[PCTwin]

Since I swapped out my 8800GTS for the HD4890 I've had no reason to go back to nvidia. Is this my reason.

O gotta pay the bank a visit. time for a new system

 

[SpriteAlpha]

Just picked up one for £240. Now that's a good deal.

 

[thestepster]

Just picked up one for £240. Now that's a good deal.

where?

 

[SpriteAlpha]

Am I allowed to post things like that on this site? The rules say "no promotion of other websites allowed", so I want to check first.

 

[stevenwright6379]

think that means promotion of other hardware review sites

 

[SpriteAlpha]

Oh, OK. In that case, I got it from Dabs. It's £260 there, but if you pay through Quidco you get a £10 off voucher (valid until the end of Sunday), which brings it down to £250. In addition, paying this way earns you 4% cashback, which knocks around another tenner off the price, albeit you won't be refunded the cashback instantly. But in any case, you're essentially paying only £240 for the card.

 

[thestepster]

nice makes the card even more tempting!

 

[stevenwright6379]

agreed lol

 

[SpriteAlpha]

Stocks are low though. I predict supply of this card will be as poor as the 580 for the short-term - but I'm just speculating.

 

[thestepster]

looks at his 3 460's and they are shaking at gettin replaced so soon ha ha

 

[stevenwright6379]

read the other day the UK got 3000 of these bad boys in so hopefully stock will last around the UK but at £240 doubt it will last at dabs lol

 

[TMaksimov]

Hmm, takes the price-performance crown off the 460 SLI? I don't think so.

 

[SnW]

looks at his 3 460's and they are shaking at gettin replaced so soon ha ha

I see some very nice F@H numbers coming

I´m picking up my second GTX470 tomorrow or saturday...