Gigabyte 480 GTX SOC or Asus GeForce GTX 480

paspc · 22 May 2011 at 08:55

Hello
I have ordered a Gigabyte 480 GTX SOC but am wondering if I should return it and order an Asus GeForce GTX 480?

After looking through this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18252461

(which was very confusing because it is too big and people are talking about many different cards) it seems that the Gigabyte 480 GTX SOC is a very unreliable card - is this the case? Has anyone happy with their 480 GTX SOC?

The Asus GeForce GTX 480 seems to have much better reviews and is cheaper…

big jenks · 22 May 2011 at 09:29

id stay with the stock at stock mine isent stable and i was going to rma it but i was messing round with clock speeds and got it stable at 900/1800/2000 in games havent stress tested it them are around 60c idle has i have 2 screen low 40ish if i take one out high 70s low 80s on load in games

if you get one thats not stable and dont want to solve it your self just rma it to gigabyte takes about week and way even get a 580 back instead

Randall8686 · 22 May 2011 at 10:36

if you do RMA it done get the Asus get the SE they dont seem to have the problems like the SOC

Nodiggidy123 · 22 May 2011 at 12:46

dont rma the card as there have been a few returned with "no fault found". return it under DSR.

jrodga2k5 · 22 May 2011 at 13:14

Your decision mate but I'll say one thing, I love my SOC

paspc · 22 May 2011 at 13:35

jrodga2k5 - did your SOC work on stock voltage right out the box, or did you have to fiddle with it?

jrodga2k5 · 22 May 2011 at 13:56

paspc said:
jrodga2k5 - did your SOC work on stock voltage right out the box, or did you have to fiddle with it?

Done nothing with it at all mate. No need to touch the voltages or the clock speeds.

Heaven Benchmark has no Artifacts and No Artifacts in any Games whatsoever.

Remember people are more likely to post if they encounter a problem

paspc · 22 May 2011 at 14:01

jrodga2k5 said:
Remember people are more likely to post if they encounter a problem

Hehe - thanks yeah. I was hoping to hear some SOC success stories, the other thread was full of doom and gloom.

paspc · 22 May 2011 at 14:02

jrodga2k5 said:
Done nothing with it at all mate. No need to touch the voltages or the clock speeds.

Heaven Benchmark has no Artifacts and No Artifacts in any Games whatsoever.

Remember people are more likely to post if they encounter a problem

BTW what PSU are you running on? Thought maybe some other people were have problems due to inadequate PSU's

Xire · 22 May 2011 at 14:09

Randall8686 said:
if you do RMA it done get the Asus get the SE they dont seem to have the problems like the SOC

+1, currently using this card and its great.

Buckster · 22 May 2011 at 15:55

paspc said:
BTW what PSU are you running on? Thought maybe some other people were have problems due to inadequate PSU's

I thought this was the case forme ...

changed PSU to HX850 - and still same problems

d_brennen · 22 May 2011 at 15:57

Don't bother with the SOC

paspc · 22 May 2011 at 16:00

Well my 480 SOC is on it's way now (curse overclockers for such fast service

). So I'll just have to wait and see. Fingers (and toes) crossed!!

jrodga2k5 · 22 May 2011 at 19:06

paspc said:
BTW what PSU are you running on? Thought maybe some other people were have problems due to inadequate PSU's

650W Corsair TX

Good choice and I'm sure you'll get one of the good uns!

AzZ · 22 May 2011 at 19:34

Since it's already on it's way just test it. If it errors return it and get the 480 SE and OC it.

paspc · 23 May 2011 at 13:32

Got my card this morning and installed - all looking fine. Can someone pls recommend some programs for testing stability. Thanks

Rroff · 23 May 2011 at 13:47

I like these for GPU testing:

Devil May Cry 4 benchmark (stand alone doesn't need the game) look at the water on the street in the first scene it seems really sensitive to VRAM issues and tends to corrupt at the slightest hint of instability for some reason.

EVGA artifact scanner - hard to get hold of without a registered EVGA product but seems better for testing than furmak/kombuster and similiar.

Heaven benchmark - not the best for testing due to the odd artifact naturally ocurring but in conjunction with other tests its useful as it works out a broad spectrum of GPU features.

Some people use the OCCT GPU tester but I'm not a fan of it personally as it puts an abnormal load on the GPU, doesn't test a broad spectrum of functionality and prolonged periods of running it can kill a perfectly fine GPU or damage other parts of the system.

AzZ · 23 May 2011 at 13:58

Test with:

MSI Kombustor
Heaven 2.5
Crysis (max it out if you can and run the Assault level)

Run OCCT for 1-2 mins, if you get thousands of errors the card is not stable. Thats not going to damage the card and is a good sign of stability.

Also the EVGA artifact scanner won't work unless you have an EVGA card

Rroff · 23 May 2011 at 13:59

AzZ said:
Also the EVGA artifact scanner won't work unless you have an EVGA card

Have they changed it? I grabbed it as I have an EVGA motherboard and it works fine on all my PCs - been awhile since I updated it tho.

AzZ · 23 May 2011 at 14:06

I could be wrong. I got hold of version 1.0 to test my card and it wouldn't let me run it.