Cheap 480, Should I Buy?

555BUK · 10 Dec 2010 at 00:04

Foe £25 extra per card I would go the 570 SLI route. They run cooler & quieter, overclock further, use less power, provide equal or slightly better performance and will demand a resale value.

Invertigo · 10 Dec 2010 at 02:21

Saw this myself today, but I cant say it's a shock with the 570's being damn near as fast, while being cooler, quieter and using less power

marktime · 10 Dec 2010 at 10:12

With the 570s starting to show up sub £260 already (admitedly no stock) the 480s would have to be VERY competitively priced to be attractive, but I'd still be potentially interested if it was a killer price (thinks back to the sub £220 280s a couple of years ago).

Locky · 10 Dec 2010 at 11:50

Very much doubt they was losing 100 quid a card, but they was selling them at a loss.

ahenners · 10 Dec 2010 at 12:08

Mightycamels said:
Quite far away from you in a town called Monmouth, near Newport. Lived in Swansea for a year tho which I think is quite close to you.

Looking forward to what ocuk has on offer. Does anyone know when ocuk will stock the 5** series waterblocks on a side note, now I started Watercooling it's hard to stop thinking about it

I doubt the blocks have been made yet, the card only came out a few days ago!!!

Give it a month or two tops and they will be out

That competitor that was selling the Inno3D ones for £235 has sold out anyway and probably won't get anymore back in.

elmuzzy66. · 10 Dec 2010 at 15:18

AndyH_Lufc said:
I doubt the blocks have been made yet, the card only came out a few days ago!!!

Give it a month or two tops and they will be out

That competitor that was selling the Inno3D ones for £235 has sold out anyway and probably won't get anymore back in.

Ek have blocks out for the 580 haven't checked for the 570.

Skyrocket · 10 Dec 2010 at 16:20

570 will give you same bang for the money and same speed with quieter and cooler operation. They can be had from £259.99 ---->

480 need to be in £200-£210 to make them semi decent.

With sub £180 470 and sub £180 5870 about its a pointless venture.

I have two 470 MSI twin FrozII which are quicker than vanilla 480, quieter too for £360.

Marvin · 10 Dec 2010 at 23:24

I got one of the GTX480s on that deal for some SLI goodness.

Oh, and I watercool anyway for silence, so I felt the 570 wasn't worth it (plus no SLI).

Also got my brother to snap one up along with a nice new monitor to replace his ageing Samsung 19", hopefully OcUK can do well too...

Richdog · 11 Dec 2010 at 11:38

Gibbo said:
Give me 2-3 days and should be done, the competitor selling them so cheap is loosing £100 per card, thats suicide.

Were looking to fund the deal in a way so we can offer such a price but on a superior brand without actually loosing money.

Ok so lets work 6his out...

Competitor is selling "inferior" brand Inno3D for £235. OCUK are selling "superior" brand EVGA for £299... a difference of £65.

If your EVGA card is only 65 quid more expensive, and you say you are not losing anything on the cards, then how can the competitor be losing £100 on each cards? Doesn't make sense.

Considering almost all the cards are reference design i'd snap up the Inno3D.

Phoenixdancer · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:11

Gibbo lies

Duff-Man · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:12

Phoenixdancer said:
Gibbo lies

A salesman? Telling porkie pies to make his product look good?!

Whatever has the world come to!

garyfl · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:17

the knocked down price today is still quite too high, especially now there are planning on phasing te 480 out completely, i was going to sell my 470gtx and get the 480gtx for the little extra horsepower in some games but i dont think the £65 extra justifies the increase.

Ezyryder · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:28

Indeed, those MSIs are expensive and next week they will be worth less than that. If they don't go down to £200-£210 I won't buy, simples!

shadow_boxer · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:30

Was hoping for a bit better on the GTX 480, at least its a good brand. Can't see many going for £270 when a cooler, quiter 570 is around the same price. Would need to be around £220-230, otherwise a 570 is the better option. By next week they may be even lower!

Nocky24 · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:36

Ezyryder said:
Indeed, those MSIs are expensive and next week they will be worth less than that. If they don't go down to £200-£210 I won't buy, simples!

+1 they definitely need to drop in price more for me, although I doubt they'll go anywhere near £200 before the stock has been exhausted. £240 would have been far more like it to shift stock imo before amd's 69xx line-up, but hey, I'm no business man and I'm sure Gibbo knows what he's doing

Ezyryder · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:40

Nocky24 said:
+1 they definitely need to drop in price more for me, although I doubt they'll go anywhere near £200 before the stock has been exhausted. £240 would have been far more like it to shift stock imo before amd's 69xx line-up, but hey, I'm no business man and I'm sure Gibbo knows what he's doing

Well with the 570s selling for £260 and the 6850 coming in at £250 next week I can't see the 480s selling for what they are selling now for much longer.

Nocky24 · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:47

Ezyryder said:
Well with the 570s selling for £260 and the 6850 coming in at £250 next week I can't see the 480s selling for what they are selling now for much longer.

Yep exactly mate, that's why I think £240 would have been a decent price within this window to shift the eol stock quick, before it inevitably plummets

Mr Krugga · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:51

I think you have to always calculate £30 extra for a third party cooler when buying GTX480 nowadays

Seeing that GTX570 goes for almost £250, you can safely assume that £220 is the price to look forward to.

Skyrocket · 11 Dec 2010 at 14:51

Losing money, £100, that did tickle me.
Gibbo really does think were 12 years old...

480 is a dead card. Always has been. Only at £200 would it get me interested.

Slap a cooler for £30 u get £230. That's still a very hard sell invalidating ur warranty. When u can have a new 570 / 6950 in couple of days for 250£ which are quieter use less power and just as fast....

Meh

Marvin · 11 Dec 2010 at 15:11

Skyrocket said:
Losing money, £100, that did tickle me.
Gibbo really does think were 12 years old...

480 is a dead card. Always has been. Only at £200 would it get me interested.

Slap a cooler for £30 u get £230. That's still a very hard sell invalidating ur warranty. When u can have a new 570 / 6950 in couple of days for 250£ which are quieter use less power and just as fast....

Meh

You don't invalidate your warranty if you're not a spaz...

If the need for RMA arises, just remove aftermarket cooler and refit stock cooler - simples. If it looks fine externally, then they're not going to check the thermal paste and such.

Oh and the £100 extra... What a load of...