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IN STOCK NOW OCUK VALUE GTX 480 FOR JUST £393.99 inc VAT

I really want one :( but have no money (loans also so really -ve money)

Can't wait to try the heaven benchmark and run crysis and hopefully crysis 2 properly on my 50" TV at native 1080p and >30fps. I also want to get one now so I can benchmark current rig vs GPU upgrade vs full system upgrade to i7 later this year when crysis 2 is released. (Rage is unfortunately now next year.)

Part of me thinks prices will fall further to £350 by then but the rest of me wants a top end GPU at launch for the wow factor (I got the 9800pro, X850XT-PE and 280GTX all about a year after they came out.)
 
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mmj_uk said:
NVidia need to charge more because they design more complex GPU's.

The 5870 has only two thirds the transistors as a Fermi and it was the same the previous generation where GTX280 had 50% more transistors than a 4870.

AMD being a CPU manufacturer just produce bare minimum gaming GPU's, whereas NVidia are trying to take on AMD on two fronts with just as much focus on the GPGPU sector as the gaming sector.
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While I agree with your reasoning to a certain extent, this extra 'complexity' matters very little to the vast majority of gamers. For them, their main concern is gaming performance and the support of standard gaming related technology, both of which ATi provide at a lower cost than nvidia.
 
I wanna know if it overclockable.... OR anyone got one and can confirm the manufacturer..

Getting one at the end of the month.
Back to the grenn side, now the reds have royally screwed me over on drivers with my TH2GO.

Come on anyone got one??

:D
 
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I wanna know if it overclockable.... OR anyone got one and can confirm the manufacturer..

Getting one at the end of the month.
Back to the grenn side, now the reds have royally screwed me over on drivers with my TH2GO.

Come on anyone got one??
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Its a shame we have to have these type of comments:(


Cheers
mrix
 
andicole0 said:
Why would I buy an Asus at £470 compared to this at £394, specs are the same aren't they?

Andi.
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The Asus is £400 elsewhere and in stock, if you are looking for one of those i would wait for OcUK's next shipment and see if they bring the price down level with the other retailers.
 
the gtx 480 cards i have used are very overclockable

only drawback is the heat they put out when overclocked

i have found the driver support to be inkeeping with the usual excellent standard from nvidia

however, i must admit that ati/amd have come on leaps and bounds with their drivers since i have had my 5870.

andicole0 said:
Why would I buy an Asus at £470 compared to this at £394, specs are the same aren't they?

Andi.
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the warranty on the asus will most likely be better.
 
Perhaps it was a comment meaning even the expensive cards can't be considered enthusiast as they have significantly more expensive counterparts.
 
Bit tempted to pick one of these up the more I think about it. Fancy a trip back to the green camp from my 5870, but doubtless there'll be a 485 out in a few months with better specs and no nuclear power plant needed.
 
straxusii said:
Not 12mb at launch you didnt dude
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Yeah, they were the wrong side of £200 at launch, though they did drop down to the £100 mark eventually. In those days you couldnt get them at computer fairs or on the high street until a _long_ time after American launch. I remember I couldnt afford to buy a V2 at launch as a student.

Remember getting it before my OCUK first ever order which included an Tbird Athlon 2000-2001 ish.
 
titaniumx3 said:
While I agree with your reasoning to a certain extent, this extra 'complexity' matters very little to the vast majority of gamers. For them, their main concern is gaming performance and the support of standard gaming related technology, both of which ATi provide at a lower cost than nvidia.
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In any other industry/tech getting more performance out of something smaller is almost universally accepted as more "complex". Getting within 10% of the performance, in 60% of the size is a far more complex and intricate design.

As for producing somethings thats bare bones gaming, utter rubbish, the 5870 supports pretty much every standard and is incredibly fast at GPGPU work, and AMD did that without comprimising anything at all in the design or requiring the core to be so much bigger.

Its quite simple AMD's die size/transistor count is based on whats manufacturable, easily, in quantity with yields that create a profit.

They could have made something twice as fast at twice the size and released it 6 months later at a $200 loss per card, absolutely wiping the floor with Nvidia performance wise, including in the GPGPU sector, they didn't, because it wouldn't be worthwhile and EVERYONE would rightly say AMD would have failed miserably. It would also have costed significantly more while still making a loss.

Nvidia ignored what the entire tech industry told them, that the smaller the process goes you simply can't continue to make some huge monolithic die, the REST of the industry took the time to shrink their designs and worked on producing the same performance in less space with more complex designs, all Nvidia did was continue with a years old methodolgy of keeping incredibly basic shader design and adding more of them. If they continue to do it, well, the gtx280 was late, with lower yields than they wanted, the 285gtx was even later, with another drop in expected yields and increase in price and decrease in profits, Fermi was ANOTHER late product that had another drop in yield with another massive drop in profitability to the design.

Hopefully they will follow what every other chip making company in the world has done and try to get the same power out of a MUCH smaller die, which means lower prices, available quickly, cheaper gpu's which benefits everyone.

If they follow the same design path on Fermi 2 (lets make it bigger than every single manufacturing industry expert tells us is a good idea) it will be late, hot, not fast enough expensive with low yields and simply not worth the time and effort.
 
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