****Official Nvidia Refurb Thread****

[Mr Fujisawa]

wait for next gen?

too many things I want to play before then. Witcher 2 isn't playable in 3D with my current card, then there's BF3, Skyrim, Batman etc.

 

[bells]

Why is there not any Ati refurbs ?

 

[smit101]

Why is there not any Ati refurbs ?

Doubt you'll see any 6970 refurbs as they only made 12 of them.

 

[555BUK]

Why is there not any Ati refurbs ?

There were not any NVidia refurbs until this week, and these may not last for long.

 

[555BUK]

The 480s can run hot,but will be fine in decent case with good airflow.

Its only until you overclock the 480 and add more voltage where the temps get silly,thats from my experience anyway.

I run a 480 inside a SFF Sugo case. It idles at 45 (summer temps) and never goes above 70 running a custom BIOS with very low noise fan profile. 480's can be made to run very cool and quiet if you are prepared to do a little research.

I run default 3D clocks at 30% fan with reduced voltage @ 0.9v (down from 1.05v). I also edited my 2d clocks to run at lower core speed with 0.7v. My Sugo SG08 with an i5 2500k, P8H61-I mobo, 8gb ram, dvd, 3 hdds and a GTX480 idles in Win7 desktop at just 75W. CPU and ram are also undervolted and all are running stock clocks.

The 480 is a great card that will equal or beat any single GPU that AMD currently produce, and it will equal 580 performance if you overclock.

 

[ns400r]

When will these actually be in stock? Was listed as the 18th now shows 23rd.

 

[smit101]

480 down to £149.99 now.

 

[Moothead2]

480 down to £149.99 now.

For that price, I bought two .

 

[easyrider]

480 down to £149.99 now.

Lol

This is hilarious

Gibbo are you getting into a price match war with your competitor?

Its like watching a gaming of tennis between the two companies !

 

[mame]

quite tempted with the GTX 480.

 

[smit101]

For that price, I bought two .

EH! no need to be greedy, save some for the rest of us. Fair play mate, that'll be a very fast setup. I hope you've got a nice roomy case with lots of air flow and a good PSU. Will you be watercooling them or sticking with the standard air coolers?

 

[smit101]

Lol

This is hilarious

Gibbo are you getting into a price match war with your competitor?

Its like watching a gaming of tennis between the two companies !

Yeah, it is like tennis.

Gibbo is currently 2 sets to 1 up and currently in a tie breaker in the third set! C'mon Gibbo! get those oc'uk power shots from the baseline going, and get some further reductions on those 480's & 580's mate!

 

[Moothead2]

EH! no need to be greedy, save some for the rest of us. Fair play mate, that'll be a very fast setup. I hope you've got a nice roomy case with lots of air flow and a good PSU. Will you be watercooling them or sticking with the standard air coolers?

To be honest, I think I'll be selling the second one whether it be online or to a friend who might want to upgrade from his 4870x2. I was thinking using both but I only have a HX650. I used a PSU calc and while the PSU was above the minimum, it was below the recommended so I'm not going risk it. Besides, I don't trust those PSU calc all too much anyway! 2 480s for around the price of a single 580 is just mind blowing, it's kind of similar to when the 5850s were only 100 pound on here when two of those blow a single 6950 out of the water that costs the same price as two 5850s!

 

[easyrider]

Gutted if people had pre ordered at the other prices

 

[Lunawolfy]

Gutted if people had pre ordered at the other prices

Surely you could cancel and get a refund, I'd imagine they'd give it to you for the lower price

 

[JamesM]

That 480 is very tempting at the price

 

[eyetrip]

I just can't make up my mind whether going to a 480 from a 5850 is worth it...

Ignoring power consumption, I just can't get an idea on how much more performant overall it is. Most of what I look at makes me think ~50%

But a few things have seen make me think closer to ~25%.

And then theres new cards out from AMD this year, and in just a couple of months something ~£200 could likely be far more powerful.

 

[mame]

I just can't make up my mind whether going to a 480 from a 5850 is worth it...

Ignoring power consumption, I just can't get an idea on how much more performant overall it is. Most of what I look at makes me think ~50%

But a few things have seen make me think closer to ~25%.

And then theres new cards out from AMD this year, and in just a couple of months something ~£200 could likely be far more powerful.

pretty much my thoughts with having a GTX 460

 

[pastymuncher]

I just can't make up my mind whether going to a 480 from a 5850 is worth it...

Ignoring power consumption, I just can't get an idea on how much more performant overall it is. Most of what I look at makes me think ~50%

But a few things have seen make me think closer to ~25%.

And then theres new cards out from AMD this year, and in just a couple of months something ~£200 could likely be far more powerful.

I went from a heavily clocked (1000/1250) 5850 to my 480 and it was a good move. I got so fed up with stuttering in Call of Pripyat with the 5850 as it was extremely annoying. Swapped to the 480 and no stuttering, higher framerates, especially minimum and average. The drivers just work as well with the 480. No messing around like some of the ATI drivers.

 

[easyrider]

I just can't make up my mind whether going to a 480 from a 5850 is worth it...

Ignoring power consumption, I just can't get an idea on how much more performant overall it is. Most of what I look at makes me think ~50%

But a few things have seen make me think closer to ~25%.

And then theres new cards out from AMD this year, and in just a couple of months something ~£200 could likely be far more powerful.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Prod...7.118.119.120.121.122.123.124.125.126.127.128


You could sell your 5850 for 90-100 and spend 49.99 on an upgrade. Plus the resale value when you move to next gen.

Its a no Brainer imo.