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**The Gigabyte GTX 480 SUPER OC DEAL JUST GOT BETTER - 10% DISCOUNT!**

Gibbo said:
1) £200 is a lot money, my point was these were £350 - £400 originally, if I paid that I'd want it running as advertised, but at £200 if it meant it was unstable in a benchmark or needed a bit more voltage I'd just sort it myself.
2) There is a chance of failure with any product, this card is no different in that aspect, graphics cards normally have a 2-4% failure rate, these are in the 6-8% region which is above the norm. The SE car is the safer bet!
3) It does not mean the other 139 are faulty either!
4) The norm is 2-4%


I shall find out what Gigabyte actually use to test their cards because for gaming I suspect they are all fine bar the odd exception, running furmark is no doubt generating too much heat and I suspect Gigabyte maybe don't use that in their testing.

If you have fears then I suggest you go with the Asus or Gigabyte SE model, but for the money I'd get the SOC, its close to half price and is not far off GTX 580 performance and if you get a great runner, excellent, if in the odd programme it artifacts I'd simply give it a voltage bump to cure because the warranty will still stand with both OcUK and Gigabyte.
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Gibbo can you confirm the voltage bump on the GPU and its effect on Warranty please ? as I read on Gigabyte forums that any voltage increase invalidates the warranty ?

question was posted re the 470 SOC - can't see how it would be any different ?

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2967.0.html
 
Buckster said:
Gibbo can you confirm the voltage bump on the GPU and its effect on Warranty please ? as I read on Gigabyte forums that any voltage increase invalidates the warranty ?

question was posted re the 470 SOC - can't see how it would be any different ?

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2967.0.html
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The overclocking ability is a marketed feature of the card. Its in the box and they even include an overclocking utility with it. Turning around and saying that your warranty us void because you increased the voltage which is an important aspect ov overclocking would be BS and possibly against the law.

Besides, Gibbo confirmed it wouldnt void any of the cards warranties.
 
Buckster said:
Gibbo can you confirm the voltage bump on the GPU and its effect on Warranty please ? as I read on Gigabyte forums that any voltage increase invalidates the warranty ?

question was posted re the 470 SOC - can't see how it would be any different ?

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2967.0.html
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But how can Gigabyte prove the voltage has been moved? They can't! As such warranty remains, if your hard coding the voltage into the BIOS then obviously yes that would void warranty because your re-flashing the BIOS on the card.

But if your just using software to adjust voltage no warranty won't be void and neither can Gigabyte prove you have done so.
 
Cleeecooo said:
Sorry Gibbo, what was that about the 480's only going to go UP in price and nearly selling out?
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Gigabyte sourced us another 222 units and at point of ordering it was unknown these existed as they came from another region. First batch came from Europe and these from Far East I believe, so even though they could be different batches of cards, I doubt it.

So now as we have far more than initially, supply and demand is now eased a lot which means I can do an even better deal. :)
 
Gibbo said:
But how can Gigabyte prove the voltage has been moved? They can't! As such warranty remains, if your hard coding the voltage into the BIOS then obviously yes that would void warranty because your re-flashing the BIOS on the card.

But if your just using software to adjust voltage no warranty won't be void and neither can Gigabyte prove you have done so.
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If you reflash with an official Gigabyte BIOS, will that void your warranyu aswell?
 
Extra annoyed now not only did i pay more money for the se card over the soc card the se card has come down 20 quid on this week only.

May not sound a lot but when u building a pc to a tight budget it is i could have put that 20 quid towards a better cpu cooler or got a couple of extra case fans :(

Oh well guess its my fault for not waiting a day or two.
 
I am quite some time out of the graphics card market. How do these compare against a 4870x2?

I really can't afford a major upgrade but would quite possibly consider SLIing two. How would one compare again the 4870x2?
 
DooMeR said:
Extra annoyed now not only did i pay more money for the se card over the soc card the se card has come down 20 quid on this week only.

May not sound a lot but when u building a pc to a tight budget it is i could have put that 20 quid towards a better cpu cooler or got a couple of extra case fans :(

Oh well guess its my fault for not waiting a day or two.
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Unfortunately this will always be the case
 
The Giga 480 SOC is great card.

I've not had a chance to OC it yet, but its solid & stable @ the stock SOC speeds.

It's a shame that some users are having problems
 
rafster said:
Interested in buying one but the above is putting me off...
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Chance of getting a faulty one is fairly small, tho a bit higher than normal... but its well worth it IMO - Gigabyte have a UK RMA base with normally quick turn around so downtime is usually less than a week.

I'd say probably half of the people having problems, actually have duff cards tho and the other half just lack sufficent case cooling - despite the uprated cooling on these cards and lower heat output/power use compared to the reference design they are still GTX480 cores and if you cram them into a small case without sufficient airflow they are a lot less forgiving than other cards - more than 10 minutes of OCCT/Furmark without sufficent airflow is going to result in errors even with stable cores.
 
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