Pretty good price at £7. I paid about £15ish for a similar one but that was about 4years ago.
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Pretty good price at £7. I paid about £15ish for a similar one but that was about 4years ago.
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No, it is a dual monitor setup.
I'd let you know what my case temp is if I could find some software that actually worked - Speedfan doesnt.
Possible case of insta-regret here 
Ordered a 480 earlier this evening, fancied a cheeky little performance bump from my 5870. I'll compare the two cards in my system before deciding which one to keep, if i can't handle the noise/heat of the 480 or it isn't enough of a performance bump when properly overclocked it'll go straight back under DSR.
Ordered a 480 earlier this evening, fancied a cheeky little performance bump from my 5870. I'll compare the two cards in my system before deciding which one to keep, if i can't handle the noise/heat of the 480 or it isn't enough of a performance bump when properly overclocked it'll go straight back under DSR.
Don't forget that most people's measurements will be taken taken from the wall. If you consider this measurement will be ~20% greater than the system really draws (typical PSU's have an 80% efficiency), the actual system Wattage will be considerably less. I very much doubt a GTX480 will pull more than 250W within anything other than Furmark. Most games will not come close to lighting up all of the transitors.
Possible case of insta-regret here
Ordered a 480 earlier this evening, fancied a cheeky little performance bump from my 5870. I'll compare the two cards in my system before deciding which one to keep, if i can't handle the noise/heat of the 480 or it isn't enough of a performance bump when properly overclocked it'll go straight back under DSR.
about 15% from stock increase i upgraded from 2 5850s because i had no room for PCI-E cards its either sell the cards and get a fast single or buy a new mobo. i chose a new card
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[TW]Fox;18385856 said:
Did you have to do anything special in the end to get the 30% fan speed to stick in Afterburner without getting over-ridden when the temps rose?
Possible case of insta-regret here
Ordered a 480 earlier this evening, fancied a cheeky little performance bump from my 5870. I'll compare the two cards in my system before deciding which one to keep, if i can't handle the noise/heat of the 480 or it isn't enough of a performance bump when properly overclocked it'll go straight back under DSR.
I went from a 1000 core 5870 to an 850 core 480, don't regret it a bit.
What is it about an extra monitor that these cards seem to find so stressful? Heck even my Laptop can run 2 monitors
You think hes got it manually set to run at 30% all the time, I hope not lol.
I'm not stupid.
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If it comes to it, would it be feasible to run my second monitor off a separate cheap, £20ish passive gfx card? It's only for outputting to my LCD TV in the next room for watching mostly SD (and some HD) video. I'd guess if it is possible that it would solve the issue of the 480 not downclocking and having high idle temps?
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No, that's not what I meant...
His earlier post (I thought, anyway) indicated that he'd tried setting a 30% fan speed for idle, but that it increased by itself anyway as his idle temps rose at that speed.
(May have read it wrong, though)
Good for you, that's an amazing example. What brand is it ?
Its always in use, thats why I have it.
44% fills my room with an irritating and frustrating droning noise - it is just unacceptable to me. I don't mind 44% or even 60% in games, but not at idle. And in games it gets to 80% in Crysis!
My idle temp at 44% is about 61c, the same as my 280 was.