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Nvidia GTX 480 disassembled

Yep, been a few pics floating around already, think this guide is new however.

It's kinda worrying that the 470 DOESN'T have heatpipes, but we'll see very soon what the score is.
 
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Wow a 1.8 amp fan ! And a Delta at that.
 
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ravl585 said:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Gallery/170368,nvidia-gtx480-disassembly-guide.aspx/

Not sure if it's been posted already, but had no idea it came with heatpipes?
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Most coolers have heatpipes to be more effective, you would expect any high perfomance gpu to have them

Orangey said:
Yep, been a few pics floating around already, think this guide is new however.

It's kinda worrying that the 470 DOESN'T have heatpipes, but we'll see very soon what the score is.
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I agree on the heatpipes

jigger said:
Wow a 1.8 amp fan ! And a Delta at that.
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lol
 
what i dont understand is
if the nda hasnt been lifted yet, why are there benchys leaked and now images of dissasebled cards, surely thats against the rules is it not ?
 
Freddie1980 said:

Delta fans have a legendary status amongst PC enthusiasts, there so powerful a 120mm Delta fan can suck a CD of your desk so it gets stuck to the underside of the fan. For all that power the noise they make is just as legendary........lets get ready to rumble!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDGPFLoPwc&feature=related
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wow ! lol i had to turn the sound down !!!!!
and that things little brother is suposed to be on the new cards ?
 
555BUK said:
Does anyone know the rated speed of those Samsung memory IC's? It should give a nice indication of overclocking headroom.
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Supposed to be 5GHz so nVidia are underclocking it by a fair bit, I'm not sure if it's a memory controller issue or if they had to reduce clocks to reduce their TDP.
 
It looks like it's a fair bit bigger than it needs to be. The PCB design and placement looks inefficient. Perhaps people subliminally think bigger cards are better, and so making it smaller than a GTX285 would possibly lose sales. Maybe, maybe not.

There seems to be a lot of moaning about heat output, though as long as the cooler is doing its job quietly, I can't see it being a problem for 90% of people. If you really want to OC it, watercooling would probably be the way to go...
 
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