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Cheap GTX 480 question

It's still £150 too expensive, even if it's £60 cheaper (due to being OEM).
 
its just an Inno3D judging by picture. Looking at other "own brand" 480's on other well known online retailers its the same card. There are two reviews which give it 5 out of 5.

I used to have a Inno3d 6800 and it was a very good card, excellent overclocker and you could unlock it to make it an ultra. Whats that about 7-10 years ago ?? Can't remember when they were about. Didnt realise Inno3d were still about.
 
Basically, I'd always seen the 'own brand' cards as an opportunity for the retailer to ship the card of their choosing (so if, say, Gainward cards weren't selling well and they had a heap of them, they'd send you one of those), as well as (possibly) only having a retailer warranty, and not extended like with XFX, Asus, POV etc.
 
Marvin said:
Basically, I'd always seen the 'own brand' cards as an opportunity for the retailer to ship the card of their choosing (so if, say, Gainward cards weren't selling well and they had a heap of them, they'd send you one of those), as well as (possibly) only having a retailer warranty, and not extended like with XFX, Asus, POV etc.
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I see, so when you get one of those cheap GTX 480, its sort of like a lucky dip which manufacture they send you, depending on which one they want to send.
 
It's certainly the impression I got (when you see 'Competitor' named cards on the bay, they always have a proper name on the card (eg: Powercolor).)
 
It looks to me that though the GTX480 is still too expensive the GTX 470 is actually coming down to a reasonable and competitive price against the ATI 5850.
I'd say the 5850 probably still edges it alround, but its nice to see the GTX 470 getting to the point where it has a chance to compete. (well maybe not on power consumption lol)
 
I got 2 of these to run in SLI, and the ones that I got were, Sparkle, Although it's just the reference Nvidia design, I whipped off the coolers and water cooled them with a couple of EK water blocks, awesome performance!
 
All GTX480 apart from EVGA are just the same part re-branded. Only difference is aftercare warranty & thats about it right now.

EVGA only reflash with a different bios but apart from that the hardware is identical just get the brand you feel most comfortable with but seriously doubt any will suddenly fail unless you are really stupid with your case fans & overheat the GPU !!
 
well some EVGA cards have the highflow bracket and a special backplate which apparently reduce temps

and there are the zotac AMP!, soon those non-ref Palit and gainward cards, the galaxy non-ref possibly as well
 
I have an old Inno3D Geforce TI4400 that has been used everyday for years. I had it for gaming back in the day but it is in the wife's comp now.
It's been a top notch reliable card and i certainly would not complain at being sent an Inno3D if i went for the value option.

You will be fine with cooling opethdisciple, i have a Zotac GTX480 in an Antec 300 case which are quite small and i have no issues with temps.
 
I usually go for the cheapest one unless there is an overclocked, good brand etc for a tenner more. I don't know if it's still the case but the OcUK value cards used to be small numbers of various known make cards. When I bought the OcUK value 8800gt, it was an xpertvision overclocked model so was fairly pleased with that for the price I paid. There was a thread at the time and some people were getting Gainward models.
 
don't think you can apply the terminology of crap quality to something that contains billions of transistors far far smaller than the eye can see lol:)
they're all GOOD-en-tag
 
Own Brand doesn't mean own brand you see :p

It just means you get a branded product (Zotac, Inno3D, Gainward, Sparkle etc) but on paper (listing, receipt and so on) it's shown as "*store name* 480GTX" or whatever.

I always buy store brand GFX cards and always get a branded card. My GTX260 is a Zotac for example.
 
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