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Tough decision.

[TW]Sponge

[TW]Sponge

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Hi guys, buying a new card on Thursday, but which one?

Gigabyte 480SE

Gigabyte 560TI SOC

Currently only got a terrible 1440x900 monitor but will be upgrading to a decent 1080 in the next few months.

Spec:

AMD Phenom II [email protected]
Gigabyte 785gt mobo
3gb Kingston Hyper-X ram
OCZ StealthXstream II pro 600w psu
Antec902

Cheers
 
Phatzy said:
What problems? The GTX480 is a smashing card for the price.

I'd recommend a GTX480 over a GTX560 any day unless the GTX560 drops in price.
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What do you mean what problems? All you have to do is look in the 480 SOC thread and most of the people who posted in there are having problems all over the place with artefacts and what not. Wondering if this is the same with the SE?
 
I have the 480 SE and no problems with mine so far.
Running on 650w OCZ PSU and its fine, recommended power supply for 480SE is 600w afaik.

Definitely recommend the 480 SE over 560Ti.
480 SOC is having to many problems all over OCUK.
 
AFAIK SE doesn't seem to be having issues, seems a bit too many of the SoC cores didn't make the grade tho :S (bit of a let down imo as gigabytes "gauntlet" sorting system used to mean something in the past) might as well grab the SE tho and OC it as it seems most of them are hitting stock SoC clocks ok.
 
Rroff said:
AFAIK SE doesn't seem to be having issues, seems a bit too many of the SoC cores didn't make the grade tho :S (bit of a let down imo as gigabytes "gauntlet" sorting system used to mean something in the past) might as well grab the SE tho and OC it as it seems most of them are hitting stock SoC clocks ok.
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Yeah I was thinking of doing that, but not sure if my PSU will handle the overclock that well.
 
Well... OCZ StealthXtreme doesn't tend to like being pushed too hard... but I'm running 2x GTX470 in SLI on a 700watt OCZ Fata1ty PSU and even with massive overclocks its been fine.
 
Running sli 470's here, in game the system is drawing 530w ono, (an i7 will be more power hungry) a 600w psu should be ok with a 480.
 
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sponge999 said:
What would happen, say if the psu didn't agree with the overclock? What would be the signs?
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Generally either the PC powers itself off randomly while under load or the application crashes... in very very freak cases you may get cables/connectors melting but usually only happens with loose connections or sub-par build quality components.
 
Rroff said:
Generally either the PC powers itself off randomly while under load or the application crashes... in very very freak cases you may get cables/connectors melting but usually only happens with loose connections or sub-par build quality components.
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So basically if this happens just take off the overclock then. Think I will def go with the 480 SE, looks like a no brainer really. Will my phenom bottleneck it?
 
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