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**NVIDIA GTX 480 IS BACK - TRULY INCREDIBLE PRE-ORDER DEAL!**

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Hi there


We have a truly storming deal on GTX 480's coming!!

EVGA have done a great deal with NVIDIA on 480's, resulting in GTX 480's at sub £200, check them out here:-


EVGA GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (015-P3-1480-KR) @ £184.99 inc VAT

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Next generation gaming has arrived. Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 gives your games an adrenaline shot with the world's fastest performance and futuristic, visually stunning graphics. Experience heartpounding, cinematic visuals on your favorite games with the combined power of DirectX 11, CUDA and Nvidia PhysX technologies. And expand your visual real estate across three HD displays in jawdropping stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate in immersive gaming. Nvidia GeForce GTX 480: pure adrenaline meets visual bliss.

- EVGA Precision Tuning Utility
- Core Clock: 700MHz
- Memory: 1536MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 3696MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 384-Bit
- Processing Cores: 480
- Shader Clock: 1401MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0
- Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I & 1x Mini-HDMI 1.3a (Includes HDMI & VGA Adapters)
- SLI Ready
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 3.1 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- Warranty: 3 years standard warranty


Was [£199.99] Inc. VAT

Only £184.99 inc VAT.

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These are incredible value, they offer GTX 570 performance but are nearly £100 less. This is a great opportunity for current GTX 480 owners to grab an additional card to go SLI. :D :D :D
 
If I didn't already have 2 of these babies I would be sorely tempted by that price - it is about 20 quid more than what second hand 480s go for on the MM! :eek:

Mind you, make sure you are prepared in advance for the heat/noise these put out. While nowhere near as bad as some people will make out, it is still very audible without your headphones on.

Also ensure that you have a PSU that is up to the task ofc :)

morguk said:
How well do these handle BF3? What current cards do they compare too? Does anyone have a BF3 benchmark?
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What resolution are you talking about - lots of benchies on this forum but I can tell you that 480 SLI on 2560x1440 yields an average FPS of 50-60 for me in BF3 multiplayer. I will at some point update one of my older posts with a nicely averaged benchmark result for the card taken from multiple playing sessions over the course of a month.

EDIT: One caveat, not all my settings are maxed - pretty much all on Ultra and MSAA is disabled - using FXAA and the FXAA Injector in place of it. With 2xMSAA the FPS probably drops by 5 -7 which is still a smooth experience with a FPS limiter, but I would rather have it off for Multiplayer.
 
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morguk said:
How well do these handle BF3? What current cards do they compare too? Does anyone have a BF3 benchmark?
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Don't have BF3 benchmarks.

But they score just under 10k in 3dm11 (P) at stock with a stock 950.

They score 30,000 3dmarks in Vantage in the same rig.

So when compared to a 7950, say, they are waaay faster. Basically at stock they are 20% faster than my 7970 @ 1000mhz in the same spec rig in 3dm11.

Just make sure you can space them out properly.

~>Dg<~ said:
between 6950/6970 performance
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Hmm. Don't think so ! The 480 is right around bang on a 570, only it has more vram. Overclock a 480? tada.
 
Meaker said:
You say overclock, I hope you have your own generator and ear muffs.
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At stock they use 4w more than a 580. And the 580 has a TDP throttle.

Fermi got a lot of bad press due to heat and noise and so on. Most of it though? well, was the way forward. No one batted and eyelid when the 6950 and 6970 came out and were also red hot, loud and guzzled power.

So IMO? they're no worse than any other DX11 card. Sure the 5870 and 5850 used a fair chunk less power but ATI couldn't keep things at those levels. Even the 79xx cards pig down watts when you overclock them.

Nvidia's adaptive performance driver took care of most of the heat issues. My friend's SLI idle at 41 and 42c. That was another trick that ATI had used with the 5 series. They clocked down. As soon as Nvidia cottoned on to that they did the same.
 
Hmm. I'm playing at 1920*1080 and don't want to spend more than £200. I've been waiting for a long time for something that can play BF3 on Ultra within my price range. Not sure if this will cut the mustard, might wait a little longer for the 78**.
 
Cuchulain said:
A single 470 GTX will handle BF3 @ 1920 x 1080 with pretty much full everything (I used to run one) so a 480 should manage it no problem.
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Damn, don't tempt me! I've been waiting for the 78** for so long I don't want to get this and discover the 78** is a better option. Yet I don't want to miss a deal like this :/

I have a crossfire mobo and I've always liked ATI/AMD graphics. What do you think?
 
morguk said:
Hmm. I'm playing at 1920*1080 and don't want to spend more than £200. I've been waiting for a long time for something that can play BF3 on Ultra within my price range. Not sure if this will cut the mustard, might wait a little longer for the 78**.
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This will run BF3 at ultra no problems.

As for noise and heat? a good case with good cooling will take care of it easy. They're really not that bad with adaptive drivers.

The only thing my 470 fell short on was vram. Other than that? BF3 was great until loads of soldiers appeared on the screen at once.

Edit. Let me be more specific. BF3 flew along until the level in the mall (shopping) where you have the sniper rifle and claymores. As soon as the Iranians all came charging out it kinda looked like I had vsync disabled. Basically it was caching my hard drive and so the smoothness went a bit wonky.
 
ALXAndy said:
This will run BF3 at ultra no problems.

As for noise and heat? a good case with good cooling will take care of it easy. They're really not that bad with adaptive drivers.

The only thing my 470 fell short on was vram. Other than that? BF3 was great until loads of soldiers appeared on the screen at once.

Edit. Let me be more specific. BF3 flew along until the level in the mall (shopping) where you have the sniper rifle and claymores. As soon as the Iranians all came charging out it kinda looked like I had vsync disabled. Basically it was caching my hard drive and so the smoothness went a bit wonky.
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Thanks for the reply! I have an SSD and 8GB RAM, so that should help with any caching? What HD and RAM did you have?

N19h7m4r3 said:
Hmm, a very tempting price. I think I'll wait a bit longer though.
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Yeah, really not sure what to do!
 
Next generation gaming has arrived.
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Really? lol

Having owned a 480 myself I can see why people would be tempted at that price but just be prepared for the heat and noise. Mine would easily get into the 90's playing BF3 and it was VERY loud.
 
At the time I was running a Patriot Torqx Turbo. Reads around 240mb p/s.

In all honesty I should have just pressed on. But it was off putting and I never did pass that stage. Basically loads of Iranians start rushing in and it all got a bit jerky to the point that my aiming was off and I got frustrated.

I did get there again with the 6970 but I wind up very easy and I couldn't figure out how to detonate the claymores.

But it was worlds apart.. You really don't want it caching, but IMO 1.53gb is more than enough. I only saw usage of 1.4gb on my 6970.

That makes it better value than a 570 given it's pretty much identical but has that extra 300mb of vram.

I think that either way these are great value. As a single card they'll do anything on ultra including BF3, and in SLI (with good spacing and case cooling) they'll beat a 7970 for 7950 money.
 
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