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***Official OMG I've finally got my 480/470 thread***

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I read with interest the review on babeltech - good find raven - then read the comments at the end ref. the fact that the difference in price between the 480 and the 5870 is approx $90 . Summary the 480 is approx 22% more expensive.

Here the difference is approx.£137 . The 480 being approx 44% more expensive - Rip of Brittania indeed :o:(
 
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Trub has his 480 TRI SLI heaven 2 bench up, check wattage...:eek:
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funny you've linked to both vids that they have made that have showed nvidia's cards in a bad light but not the one that doesn't, where the 480 is basically getting double the framerate in unigine with extreme tesselation

no one who's rich/stupid enough to spend £1200+ on videocards will care about power consumption that's for sure
 
Setting 1.35 volts for 975 core though...on a 5870...no need most cards ll get there with less.

Good but the whole point of the review was to give a relevant comparison.

Fans on 90% I would rather have a 9800. How is this relevant?

I call bias. Chuck less voltage though the '70, set fans to stock and that would be a worthwhile comparison. Note 480 hits 97C@90% fan. Who in their right mind would label such a review as relevant?

Also, we might note that our case temperatures remained below 100F although ambient temperatures rose to 80F ! We attribute this to six 120 MM to 140 MM case fans cooling our Gladiator 600 mid tower case.
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Perfect case aswell- heaven help a dust build up.

And in nvidias own words...

Why the apparent discrepancy between Published specs and the tests?

250W TDP Maximum Board Power” is given in NVIDIA’s specifications but we see the GTX 480 actually draws more than that just from our own total system measurement and it has also been confirmed by other reviewers.

We asked NVIDIA to explain and the reply was that TDP is a measure of maximum power draw over time in real world application
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So nvidia is lying to you. They have redefined tdp not as the max amount of power a card will draw. But the max amount of power that they think would probably be drawn. wtf.
...tdp is a measure of how hot a card can get. Not how cool they can make it out to be.
Nvidia need to get their marketing sorted asap. Right now I will not trust one of their cards until I see it proven.
 
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@ bee

What like the link I put up showing the 480 doing well overlocked, that's your little theory gone right out the window.

And I linked one vid..
 
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DragonRR said:
I rang OC this morning. I had an Asus 480 on back order queue position 22. They told me that they were pretty much guaranteed a delivery of 100 Point of View cards but no sign of the Asus. I double ordered a POV card & crossed fingers. After ringing a few times during the day I was told that they had been let down & that they suspected that Nvidia themselves had caused the delay (one way or another). I've been told that the current outlook is that they have been promised POV cards for Friday and the rest of the brands are pretty much unknown ETA.

Last weekend my main system's Nvidia 280 decided to die on me. I can still use it in 2D but not in games. I'm toying with the idea of ordering a 5870 tomorrow and either cancel the 480s or .. well.. not..

I'm not an Nvidia fan at all, I've had a 50/50 mix of ATI & Nvidia over the years and have a ATI5770 in another system here as well as Nv8800s and Nv9800. I don't much like the price, heat, power req nor probably noise levels of the 480. However I absolutely loathe crossfire/SLI for the microstuttering, I know it's vastly improved now but still it still can't get around the issues where the FPS drop below 60. So, as the current fastest single GPU (and with PhysX), I decided to go with the 480.

Anyway... I'm getting to the *** it point now and the 5870 is beckoning!
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If you are going to overclock and won't be water cooling then I guess the 5870 will end up very close if not equal to the 480
 
And some advice to anyone who has preordered fermi from OCUK and wants it quickly, phone them every day to check what Fermi stock is coming in and get them to change your order to the in stock model.



Raven - might be worth editing your first post to say this thread contains no fermi owners yet also!
 
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Temps are looking good in this vantage test
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Yeah 100% fan speed x 3 in an open case and a 7 minute run with a pause between benchmarks, ending the last test in vantage the temps were 80c+, so not conclusive. Anyway going 480 TRI SLI, you would be crazy not to watercool them.

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Raven - might be worth editing your first post to say this thread contains no fermi owners yet also!
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Done.
 
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