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*** 25/02/2011 EXTENSION! *** DEAL OF CENTURY: Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB Graphics Card with 2 FREE

Jfan said:
Yeh lol. I'm getting this aswell using the latest nvidia drivers. A lot less fps in anarchy than when I was using my gtx280. I might try some older drivers. And see if it sorts it. Dosnt bode well for anarchy online though. Hope they hurry up and finish new graphics engine

Oh I wouldn't say card is loud either. At least at idle. I've not really pushed it much though yet. Will at the weekend.
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Funny thing is that in the 3d profile thing it says it works excellent or something... 3d at 10 fps must be awesome :p

should have got a 5870
 
[TW]Fox;18384889 said:
What else can we do but live with it? It's either that or put it on MM.
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It's a real shame you've had this experience, actually you've had the opposite one to me it seems. I was really expecting the card to be too loud and was fully prepared to package it back up and send it back. But I actually found it to be quieter than I had come to believe from what I had read and certainly quieter than my GTX 260.

So far at least I'm really pleased with mine, a great purchase and the performance is stunning compared to my 260.

I also run 2 monitors though and certainly haven't disabled the second monitor at any point.

I haven't installed MSI after burner as I haven't felt the need to mess with the fan speeds manually, but GPU-Z does say mine is idling at 44% fan speed which is says is 2007rpm.

However, my case is steel and sound proofed giving it much better sound deadening properties than a none sound proofed aluminium case so that probably plays a part.
 
At 43% fan speed Afterburner says the fan rpm is 2280 on mine. Still pretty quiet at idle though, no worse than my GTX260 was. Really pleased with mine as well and looking forward to giving it a good workout this weekend :)
 
Moeks said:
It's a real shame you've had this experience, actually you've had the opposite one to me it seems. I was really expecting the card to be too loud and was fully prepared to package it back up and send it back. But I actually found it to be quieter than I had come to believe from what I had read and certainly quieter than my GTX 260.

So far at least I'm really pleased with mine, a great purchase and the performance is stunning compared to my 260.

I also run 2 monitors though and certainly haven't disabled the second monitor at any point.

I haven't installed MSI after burner as I haven't felt the need to mess with the fan speeds manually, but GPU-Z does say mine is idling at 44% fan speed which is says is 2007rpm.

However, my case is steel and sound proofed giving it much better sound deadening properties than a none sound proofed aluminium case so that probably plays a part.
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I'm with you my man.... Compared to what I was expecting I'm blown away.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18237933

This thread proves that the high idling on 2 monitors affects all modern cards.
 
DirtyJester said:
Would it be loud enough to annoy even with a headphones on?
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I have too second that with headphones on the noise is not noticable, while idle I can not really notice the difference over standard fan noise. Pretty much in the same situation with the computer as well other than I use an HAF case rather than an Antec.
Its an hell of a deal if you ask me very good performance out of the box and overclocks very easy, have not really seen what it could be pused too either dont see any advantage in going over 800 at the moment to be honest even at stock its good enough for everything I have tried so far.
 
Managed to mess around with my card a bit last night, but I had a complete curve-ball thrown at me - turns out the BIOS version for my Bloodrage GTI did not support the 4xx series properly. So I had a nightmare experience of the motherboard not posting with some obscure error code on the LED.

Well, that's the stuff we live for as PC Gamers right? ;)

So I eventually figured all this out, swapped out to my GTX280 again to update the BIOS, reinstalled the 480....and success! However, now my OC settings on my i7 are not working anymore! Hilarious and annoying at the same time, but **** happens. I have not benched anything yet - will sort this first I think.

[TW]Fox, really sorry to hear your experience of the card thus far. For my part, at idle the fan noise is exactly the same as my 280. I suspect at load it will not sound much louder than the 280 was, but as soon as I can get my system stable and overclocked again I will give it a go and report back.

Anyone have questions, feel free to ask.
 
well - I just hit 'go' on the order for delivery tomorrow. Hope that the thing is not too loud - but sitting here listening to the my Dyson 4870 (tm) I can't imagine it will be.

Looking forward to playing with it tomorrow...
 
RavenXXX2 said:
@555BUK Nope don't use over the top stability testing software that puts an unrealistic load on the GPU. I can tell you now that I'm 100% certain I would artifact in that software, but I don't suffer stability problems in any games so why should I up the volts just to keep OCCT happy.



I get stick for running 1680x1050 heh.
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You are 100% correct, but I only run OCCT for 2-3 mins to check the GPU is stable. Just because you cannot see artifacts, it doesn't mean they are not there.
 
at the moment i cant get it higher than 850 /1700 shader, when stressing the card on benchmarks it gets 90c max at 62% fan speed. i think that is the max
 
I'm running SLI on them with a Corsair HX850W, with an i7 @ 4Ghz, an SSD and a regular HD - no problems. I think that's at the limit, though, so I might consider upgrading to the 1000W Corsair if I add any other drives, etc.
 
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Robert said:
What's the usual "safe" core clock for these cards?
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800-850.

Mines running at 850/1700 and GPU-z reports the GPU is using 1.09v.

84c 65% fan after 1 hour heaven loop. Played 2 hours of BFBC2 last night and it was mostly running at 100% utilization on my 120hz monitor with v sync (Game has triple buffering built in.) didn't go over 82C

That's where it will spend the rest of its life.....
 
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Albino Eatpod said:
I'm running SLI on them with a Corsair HX850W, with an i7 @ 4Ghz, an SSD and a regular HD - no problems. I think that's at the limit, though, so I might consider upgrading to the 1000W Corsair if I add any other drives, etc.
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danger danger :( i have a corsiar HX750w i think ill just have to stick to one
 
It appears I have missed the GTX 470 deals, is this worth the extra pennies over that?? I am new to PC gaming so have no idea what to expect with regards to benchmarks and FPS etc

Sorry for n00bish question
 
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