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Is it worth Keeping 480s?

RichardH754

RichardH754

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Anyone help me decide, I seem to be one of them people who has to keep updating his GPUs every time there is a refresh.

Is there any medication I can take to stop me upgrading AGAIN!

I was going to just buy 2 of them Zalman 480 coolers and live with what I have, but the warranty on the cards will be gone if I change the coolers!
 
There really is no need to change a 480 SLI setup, at present, i have a single 470 and all of my games are running fine, i imagine with dual 480's you can probably max out the AA and other settings and still get Min frames per sec of 50 to 60 + in most games
 
There is no need to go from SLI 480's to anything else imo there isn't a game that you can't get playable on two 480's

why not get a SSD if you have money to burn and upgrade-itis :D
 
subbytna said:
There is no need to go from SLI 480's to anything else imo there isn't a game that you can't get playable on two 480's

why not get a SSD if you have money to burn and upgrade-itis :D
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To be fair I doubt theres any game that you can't play with just ONE 480, so hey you could give one to me :D
 
RichardH754 said:
I just hate it that now my GTX480s are old tech!!
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That would still depend on how the 69xx perform, especially on tessellation. Higher power consumption hotter aside, 'technically' speaking I still see the GTX480 as more advanced than the current ATI/AMD cards since it has stronger performance in tessellation and support 3D vision...it's just too bad that games don't make good use of the feature widely and to a higher level.

Take AMD Phenom II X4 for example, it is "newer tech" than the comparing to Core2Quad, but performance wise it is only around on par with a Q9550/Q9650 etc. Hex core CPU (Phenom II X6) might benefit people that do video-encoding etc, but for gamers it's nothing but a gimmick that don't add performance at all (by the time games get to the point of commonly using 6-cores, the Phenom II X6 would already be old and slow like a grandpa).

So bottomline is, measure hardware based on performance vs need, not buy some new just because it is being labelled so.
 
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Nope, its not worth upgrading thoes 480's in SLI for a good 2 years or so if I must say. I would however, look to upgrade your hard drive(s) to an ssd as they are the best upgrade I've done tbh.
 
Your cards are going to last 2-3 years!

I anticiapte keeping my 5870 in fact my whole pc untill Windows 8 makes an appearance and with it hopefully Dx12 at the end of 2012- basically 2013 will be upgrade year.

I cant see why you would want to upgrade sli'd 480's...


Also if you are the type of person that must upgrade every generation, why not just get a single card, and upgrade, rather than spend £800 every generation....
 
I am keeping my 480's until the 28nm cards come out ie gtx680 and amd's 7000 series. There isnt a game I can't max out at my res so there is no need to upgrade. :)
 
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