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Can someone talk me out of the 195 480 deal!!

Ok... I am now genuinely torn on this one. I do think this deal is insanely bargainous, but...

I am concerned about two major issues:

One is noise, unsurprisingly. My wife and I both have desks in our home office, and it adjoins our bedroom. I don't want my gaming to become a bone of contention due to the noise disturbing my wife. Is that likely to be an issue bearing in mind I won't be using an after-market cooler?

The second issue is the problem the 4xx cards seem to have clocking down to 2D clocks when two monitors are connected. I have an LCD TV in our bedroom connected to my PC as second monitor for watching TV series and films through Media Portal (set to startup on second display). Now, with my 460 not clocking fully down it's no big deal as even overclocked it's a cool, quiet and reasonably low-power card. However, I have heard tell that the 480s kept at higher clocks even when not running a game will still heat up to the 80s Celsius and keep a fair noise level pumping out. Anyone confirm/deny this for me?
 
strumpusplunket said:
Ok... I am now genuinely torn on this one. I do think this deal is insanely bargainous, but...

I am concerned about two major issues:

One is noise, unsurprisingly. My wife and I both have desks in our home office, and it adjoins our bedroom. I don't want my gaming to become a bone of contention due to the noise disturbing my wife. Is that likely to be an issue bearing in mind I won't be using an after-market cooler?
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They will sound like a hoover when you're gaming and even when idle these things drain a fair bit of power...
 
why would you want to get yourself an early xmas present now (the gtx480), when new generation cards will become available in Novemver 2011 from both AMD and Nvidia...?
 
strumpusplunket said:
Ok... I am now genuinely torn on this one. I do think this deal is insanely bargainous, but...

I am concerned about two major issues:

One is noise, unsurprisingly. My wife and I both have desks in our home office, and it adjoins our bedroom. I don't want my gaming to become a bone of contention due to the noise disturbing my wife. Is that likely to be an issue bearing in mind I won't be using an after-market cooler?

The second issue is the problem the 4xx cards seem to have clocking down to 2D clocks when two monitors are connected. I have an LCD TV in our bedroom connected to my PC as second monitor for watching TV series and films through Media Portal (set to startup on second display). Now, with my 460 not clocking fully down it's no big deal as even overclocked it's a cool, quiet and reasonably low-power card. However, I have heard tell that the 480s kept at higher clocks even when not running a game will still heat up to the 80s Celsius and keep a fair noise level pumping out. Anyone confirm/deny this for me?
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Why not just get a 6950?
 
Well, I don't really need to upgrade, and before this bargain came on the scene, I didn't even want to upgrade!

The issue is that the price here for the 480 is just so good for such great performance I almost feel like I can't pass it up if it would be okay in terms of noise and heat (and that's a big "if" that leaves me undecided...). The 6950 doesn't tempt me in the same way (now if OcUK got a batch for per-order at a silly price like £160, then I'd want to snap that up too!)
 
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