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Nvidia Graphics Cards
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For 3D you really want:
-a Nvidia card (AMD's implementation just isn't as good yet)
-as much graphical power as you can buy for the budget.
That is still the Gigabyte GTX 480.
If the budget is higher - a GTX 580 or two would also be very nice in 3D.
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+3 tbh. Great card for the price
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on ocUK there are three GTX480s, two from Gigabyte and one from Asus. You'll notice the gigabyte one has three large fans and a large heatsink arrangement on it, whereas the Asus one is a smaller box cooler. The Asus one is the board and cooler originally designed by Nvidia, with the crappy and loud cooler. Gigabyte have their own version of the board with their own cooling solution on it, which is far far better.
In a nutshell, a reference card is one that has been built to the original board/cooler designs provided by the manufacturer.
Sorry about the wordy explanation, too much Codeine to block out the headaches had made one a bit wibbly
Wordy but informative, thank you
Also more expensive, and most of the 480's for sale atm are ones with custom coolers so not much difference.
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I'm not sure about the 570, but looking at this review the Gigabyte gtx 480 is rather quiet at load for such a high performance graphics card.
This. Amazing card for the price. Do not buy the asus card for about a tenner less, it's much worse. Louder, hotter and won't OC nearly as well.
The TWO Gigabyte GTX 480 is pretty immense value for money.
There's a 2GB GTX 480?
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Unfortunately not.
The "TWO" he was referring to was the "This Week Only" offer on OCUK, this GTX 480 is on this offer and represents very good value and low noise for such a powerful card.
