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**NVIDIA GTX 480 IS BACK - TRULY INCREDIBLE PRE-ORDER DEAL!**
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Yes.
Do you have an SLI compatible motherboard and a good quality PSU in the region of 850W+?
Unless 7970's have increased to £900 I'd double check your maths
No thats kepler..
just joking, im an nvidia fanboy
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If you look around rather than refering to only Anandtech and only on the Chase Bench, you will see in actual environment the performance is higher on the GTX480 at 1920 res and below; most of of those BFBC2 results of Anandtech are on 2560 res with 4xAA...so the lack of VRAM cripple the GTX480; and the 6970 is faster than the GTX480 is faster at 1680 res because of no AA used.
Either way, 6970 still cost around £80-£100 more.
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Not sure if you guys are interested however I tested the 480 against 480SLI on the same game of Caspian boarder (thanks Locky). The GTX480's were also clocked the same. Here are the results:
- This but no motion blur.
Guess I could always go Tri SLI
- This but no motion blur.
Guess I could always go Tri SLI
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I'm just back into PC building just lately and have been outta the know for a few years. I was planning on waiting for Keplers but the prospect of two 480's is sounding very appealing (And means I can get it quicker )
I've heard the cards struggle with temps and was thinking wouldn't two of em be god awful taking that into account, or would i just pay a lot in cooling XD?
)I've heard the cards struggle with temps and was thinking wouldn't two of em be god awful taking that into account, or would i just pay a lot in cooling XD?
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kiwi1, what AA setting did you use?
Sorry 4X. To be honest, even at that res a single 480 is fine if you don't use AA. A point to note however, is that on maps like Caspian, fully maxed out, I actually run out of vram. I have had to reduce the settings because of this. However, on maps like metro the performance is awesome. I can run these cards fully maxed and the performance is better than a single 7970.
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Around 60% of the price of a 7970 for 77% of the performance, amazing value 480 here folks
Ninja maths edit
Err 7970 price is currently ~440 so check your maths again 42% the cost for 77% the performance.
I would say a HX620. I am running 2 however on a 800W coolermaster so don't belive those out there that say you must have some 1200W monster.
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I`m hoping to try 3 on my HX1050 all will be at stock!
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You have to bare in mind that comparing to overclocked SB i7, platform such as overclocked previous gen i7 has something like at least 50W higher power consumption.
You said the GTX480 is "3 generations old" in comparison to what, 6900 series cards?
Because that's what's out there at the moment and the 6970 certainly does not
Technology process means nothing, DirectX 11.1 means nothing, PCI-E 3.0, again, nothing, MLAA on AMD cards, FXAA on Nvidia cards (the latter is usually better which is why it's widely implemented post-processing feature in many new games), 2GB vRAM I've already mentioned - not an issue for anyone playing at a moderate resolution (1920x1080 or so), lower temps will be a problem for some but not for everyone, see my previous post - I wouldn't buy the GTX 480 with no intentions to watercool it and the last point, better overclockability, well, you have no idea if it does. GTX 480 overclocks better under water than HD6970 does so that point is also moot.
So tell me again, how is GTX480 behind in terms of technology?
It largely depends on your rig and overclocks.
For a stock Sandy Bridge and GTX480 it probably wouldn't be higher than 350W under load so I would suggest a decent 500W as a minimum.
Of course if you want to overclock them using any other than stock voltages, add 50-100W on top of that.
All of that ^
Most of this "new" stuff is just a bottle of snake oil.
DX11.1? FFS, they haven't even used DX10.1 properly yet
DX10 could do tessellation, yet it was never hyped or "sold".
PCIE 3.0? how many times, man. Nothing has maxed out the bandwidth of PCIE 2.0 yet for crying out loud, so you get about 3% over 2.0
And does any one have any concrete proof yet that existing DX11 cards can't run DX11.1? I would stick my neck out and say they can. DX10 cards ran DX10.1 when it was introduced.
And I will also vouch for the overclocking prowess of the 480. I can't see it being very different to the 470 and that went straight to 755mhz with linked shaders without batting an eyelid. The guy I sold mine to go it to 790 linked shaders without any voltage. I told him to stop there, as I wouldn't help him if he blew it up. I think he saw sense.