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PowerColor 6970 pictured and benched

Skyrocket said:
resist the urge you will get burnt by that noisy eol toster! literally !!
you will need a £30 aftermarket cooler to make it semi decent.
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maybe but just checked reviews - vs my 4890

1.2dB louder under load
-10W idle power
+100W load power

not exactly massive difference, power or noise
 
Really? You guys are considering GTX480s when 570s can be had for the same money and with no need for an aftermarket cooler?

Back to the topic, have I missed anything since last night?
 
Trust me, 80%-100% fan noise on the GTX 470 / GTX 480 IS LOUD!

Idle, sure not too bad, but on load you WILL NOTICE.

If you have a a HD4780 stock cooler, it's probably comparable to 70% fan speed when GTX 470/480 is on 100% fan.
 
Mr Krugga said:
Really? You guys are considering GTX480s when 570s can be had for the same money and with no need for an aftermarket cooler?

Back to the topic, have I missed anything since last night?
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+1

For the same price, the 570 is the one I would choose. I own both a 480 and a 580 and the difference between them (heat and noise wise) is huge. Assuming that the 570 runs even cooler and quieter than my 580 makes it an easy decision. My Gainward 580 fan never goes above 50%, wheras my ASUS 480 sounds like a Dyson.
 
ashmanuk67 said:
may sound dumb but are you saying that you are comparing two different manufactures of the 6970 ?
if so one is powercolor and the other is ?
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We shall be stocking HIS, Sapphire and XFX for launch, plus some very cheap OcUK cards, aka VTX3D. We might have a handful of Asus too. :)

They all perform the same as all come from same factory.


However warranty wise we find HIS the best, very fast turnaround, Sapphire are good as well. XFX are OK and the others are just acceptable. Not that it matters as OcUK honour the warranty for the 2yr period anyway.
 
Skyrocket said:
resist the urge you will get burnt by that noisy eol toster! literally !!
you will need a £30 aftermarket cooler to make it semi decent.
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Really people make out as if the GTX 480 is a flop of a card that will burn your house down.

They run well within their design limits, which yes is hot but when something is designed to run like that then so be it, Intel Prescott CPU's ran stupidly hot, they still work fine to this day several years on just as GTX 480's will.

Sometimes I think peope exxagerate things into a problem when there is not one, we've sold 1000's of 480's, so one can only imagine how many have been sold worldwide.

Fact is the 480 is an amazing card and at £250 its a bargain because I see it as superior card to a 570, for a start its got more memory and 384-bit memory interface.
 
Gibbo what's the reference cooler like? is it a vapor type cooler like the 580?

Also i know NDA is still up but is the 5870 longer than a 6970? surely you can tell us that i hope?:p
 
Sycho said:
Gibbo what's the reference cooler like? is it a vapor type cooler like the 580?

Also i know NDA is still up but is the 5870 longer than a 6970? surely you can tell us that i hope?:p
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Reference cooler does superb job as pretty much all ATI reference coolers do. :)

5870, 6970, 6950 are all the same length. :)
 
I am guessing regardless of what is being said, at my resolution of 2560x1600 the 6970 is more than likely going to be superior to the 580GTX due to the larger amount of memory, hopefully a worthy successor to my 4870X2.
 
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