You got a setup such as this?
No?
Then stfu
erm.. Doesn't NathWraith work for OCuk? I'd have thought that that would give ample opportunity to experience such setups.
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You got a setup such as this?
No?
Then stfu
You got a setup such as this?
No?
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Round 1. Fight!
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Round 1. Fight!
LoL, you got them the wrong way, Nvidia is the fat, sweaty and hot walrus, ATI the lean, cool polar bear.![]()
or as strange as your comment!!
If not pretending to be an expert about an GPU ive never seen or used is flawed logic then fine, you'll notice i haven't critized ATI, because i've never owned one, so i can't make a sensible, intelligent opinion about them, unlike some!!![]()
Your comment was flawed because it would be silly for someone to buy 480 if they personally did not like the issue of extra heat,noise & power draw so of course your going to get more comments from ATI users about it because it may of been the extra heat,noise that made them buy the ATI card over the 480.
So in your eyes because they went & bought the ATI because of those issues they have no right to bring them up on the 480.
your comment is flawed because it is based on the ati users using secondary experience for their choice which everyone over the age of 12 knows is always inaccurate to you, although inaccuracy varies from a single word to the whole article, either way they can still make a huge difference
if you have no primary experience with something then you should not bring up that something without expressing that you are using secondary sources.
That's pretty much it for our thermal study on the GTX-480. We saw temperatures range from around 59°C to upwards of 90°C in the most grueling conditions we could think of. The GTX-480 isn't the coolest running GPU we've ever seen but initial reports of 96°C stemming from Furmark got it a lot of attention. If we had to place an average temperature on the GTX-480 we would say between 75 - 85°C with about 20°C of overhead left until it would throttle.
There's the cut and dried of it. Early reports were done in Furmark with no thought of actual real life performance and in Furmark the difference between the GTX-480 and the HD 5870 was a mere 4°C.
When the GTX-295 came out it was heralded as a breakthrough dual core GPU and it didn't receive any of the harping that the GTX-480 got. Yet stuff 3 Billion transistors on a single core GPU that has more power than the GTX-295 and suddenly it's unacceptable.
What we find unacceptable is the unfair treatment it got. When sites threw up the 96°C the GTX-480 runs at they failed to mention the slight difference between it and the other top end cards out there.
We hope this study sheds a little more realistic light on the thermal properties of the GTX-480 and puts an end to the mountain of GTX-480 E-Mail we've gotten about it's thermal properties. What it comes down to is it's designed to operate at those temperatures and as long as that doesn't affect longevity we are good with it.
When core refinements come down the pipeline chances are the GTX-480 will run a little cooler but the simple fact is pack 3 Billion transistors in that small a Die and you will get some heat. You also get a GPU that will run anything out there without compromising visual quality.
E-mails about the thermal qualities of the GTX-480 to date more than 4000. E-Mail reply's to date Zero. We did find them a little funny so we saved them for when we need a chuckle.
I don't take my conclusions from any one source neither should anyone else.
You have to look at the over all picture to get the balance.
Also furmark is not realword testing.
bjorn3d, another site on my blacklist.![]()
You obviously didn't read the article at all as games were included. Nor it seems have you read my post.
If you looked at the overal picture you would see that the 480 is just like any other top end gpu. In terms of heat.
A 480 performs very well in games, allows the user to pile on the AA with very little hit to frames, has a new type of AA (TRSAA), can go upto 96xAA with SLI, has 3d, physx, good dx11 etc... I dont understand how this can all be ignored? Surely this is progression?
allows the user to pile on the AA with very little hit to frames, has a new type of AA (TRSAA), can go upto 96xAA with SLI, has 3d, physx, good dx11 etc...
Your conclusion is only relevant to yourself. Not to others.
The over all conclusions of the reviews matter to most or there wouldnt be any reviews of anything otherwise.
Notice how much of your comments i cutout because im not talking about most of what your saying & its nothing todo with what i want.
Its about the facts that most sites say about the heat power & noise & that's all.
I personally don't care about the heat & power but what i do care about is the facts.
Sorry razor but it looks like your trying real hard to justify you purchase, just enjoy your rig and let it be.