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How much better is this than a 5870 not really up to date on cards at the mo.
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*** 25/02/2011 EXTENSION! *** DEAL OF CENTURY: Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB Graphics Card with 2 FREE
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lol they are same, not based on different architectures at all, it's a re-spin.
AMD cards are on a different architecture ;p
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You can prob add 10% as all of these will hit 770 on the core i would have thought.
Best to try and post reviews up from the last few months and not from release on beta drivers, and Guru is not accurate when it comes to results either, they don't update older cards results therefor the results are dodgy. Their 480 results are from their original review way back in March on beta drivers, site is a joke.
They look pretty evenly matched to me, with each card having a very slight advantage depending on the game and resolution.
For all intents and purposes they're the same performance. Personally the extra £35 is worth it for me just for the reduced heat, power & noise. If it wasn't then I'd happily cancel my pre-order and buy the 480 instead.
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Taken from Anandtech, so if you think they're wrong I suggest you go complain to them
An 850watt PSU should be fine for SLI GTX 480'sI guess a 850W Corsair wouldn't be enough. I will just get a 650W Corsair instead to save some money and buy another single card solution in the future.
(As long you don't have loads of harddrives/DVD-rom drives/water pumps/etc as well)
I have SLI GTX 580's and i don't think i seen my rig draw more then 600watts yet
You might get away with it but a 600w is what you really need.
Yeah you were benching the CPU as well and had 900 core overclocks on whilst running furmark, gaming would never be anywhere near them numbers.
Only at 2560x1600. I've seen no evidence in any of the reviews of any 1GB card suffering at 1920x1200 and below, regardless of the game.
Yes it's possible that future games could suffer a bit if they start using more memory for extra eye-candy but we have no idea whether this will happen or not. You could argue that the extra memory is future-proofing and, to some extent, that's true but then the same future games could also benefit from some of the refinements in the GF110/114 cores over the GF100, such as better 64bit texture performance, which could redress the balance.
Basically the future is a guessing game - all we know for sure is the here and now and, in the here and now, I've yet to see any 1GB card suffer to any real degree at resolutons of 1920x1200 or below, regardless of whether it's an AMD/ATI or NVidia one.
I keep hearing people saying this, but the 480 is rated at 250W max. I cannot see any people's single processor setups pulling 250W for the rest of the system.
To give you an idea, the machine in my spec pulls 250W fully loaded.
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It has to be rated 250W max otehrwise its outisde PCI-E spec (iirc)
And yes a 480 in a system has an absolute peak power draw of 479 (running Furmark - source Anandtech), but thats not allowing for OCing etc, in reality it will be much less than this 99% of time, but I wouldnt want a PSU that runs it ok 99% of time but may crash every now and then if it does hit its peak even if only for a second or two, hence why "its better safe than sorry" and 600-650 should really be min for a 480 set up, imo, just in case, granted it will usually draw a lot less than this
And yes a 480 in a system has an absolute peak power draw of 479 (running Furmark - source Anandtech), but thats not allowing for OCing etc, in reality it will be much less than this 99% of time, but I wouldnt want a PSU that runs it ok 99% of time but may crash every now and then if it does hit its peak even if only for a second or two, hence why "its better safe than sorry" and 600-650 should really be min for a 480 set up, imo, just in case, granted it will usually draw a lot less than this
I'd just use your hopefully backed up original BIOS and unlock the shaders only, or sell it back to complete stock. This way you won't have someone trying to send it back to you as much. Make things more complicated and it will only complicate your sale. Also everything may be fine now but as the memory timings are different between the 6950 and 6970 BIOS I'd just keep the 6950 memory timings and just unlock the shaders as this makes the card just as fast as the 6970 without the possibility of stressing the RAM past to what it was specified to do.
With the 120Hz monitor you're all set and ready to go. Good luck with your choice.
Sold already on ebay for £220
I offered it as 6950 unlocked to 6970 but also offered to flash it back to 6950 bios if requested and it sold with in 1hour. Time to preorder this GTX 480 
Sold already on ebay for £220
Haha good job. I'm actually contemplating to do the same now. I'll have to be quick though and I have my 4870 to hold on to as there are higher priced 480s coming soon too. I just hope I can get £220 for mine too if I decide to go for it.
Did you put it up for a 24 hour sale?.
Choices, choices, choices.....
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Just read that review and it seems to tell me that the 480 and 560 Ti SOC are almost unseperable in terms of performance.
Makes me think that for the sake of a much quieter, less power hungry card the 560 Ti SOC is becoming the no brainer? So much so that I'm wondering why you'd pick the 480 over the 560 Ti SOC? What am I missing?