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**Gigabyte Super OC GTX 480's - VERY LOW PRICES!**

sorry cleecooo i missred you

No my pixelview has no green led's i thought you ment the gigabyte card thats why i have left the gigabyte card at the top and the pixelview at the bottem just so i could oggle at the lights in the dark
 
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Did some digging around to find out about the power consumption on these things. Boy do they suck a lot when overclocked. I think my PSU would struggle. I know at stock it would be fine, but would be looking to go at least 850MHz on core if I got one.

Shame really, as the deal on the 480 SE is very good and is tempting. For the price they are great in every department except power draw when overclocked properly. The 3 year warranty is awesome too.

I will guess I will have to wait and see what the 680/780 has to offer next year. Hope there are some good deals when ivy bridge comes out :D
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Just stay away from Furmark as the 480's don't have Built in power limiters like the 5** series.

Mine pulls 230 watt running Heaven at 850mhz.....
 
sponge999 said:
Will this card run ok on my OCZ modxstream pro 600w? Really want it!
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Just to follow up your question. I received my card last night and it works without a problem on my OCZ 600w psu. Setup I have is [email protected], 1 ssd, 2 hdds, 480gtx, so hopefully that gives you an idea if it will work for you (if you have a similar setup).

The SOC card is fantastic, I previously had an XFX 6870 and in comparison the 480GTX performs around 30-40 fps quicker in Bad Company 2 than the 6870! Most notably, the 6870 suffered badly from slowdown when there was a lot of smoke in the game.

The fans are a lot quieter than the super noisy 6870 fan, even at 100%. Temps in games are about 75 degrees C. I have overclocked it a little more to around 850mhz (can't remember shader/memory clocks off top of my head) and it is nice and stable.

Great card, great price. I would recommend it to anyone gaming at 1920x1200!
 
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KiNETiK said:
The fans are a lot quieter than the super noisy 6870 fan, even at 100%. Temps in games are about 75 degrees C. I have overclocked it a little more to around 850mhz (can't remember shader/memory clocks off top of my head) and it is nice and stable.

Great card, great price. I would recommend it to anyone gaming at 1920x1200!
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the shader clock is 1700 with 850core (using msi afterburner to OC it)

i am amazed at how i can get a 850mhz OC on my gigabyte card and it is stable withought adjusting any voltage whilest on my pixelview 480 i have to add volts upto 1100 from 1050 to get a 850mhz stable OC both cards i have the ram at 2000mhz (4gig respectivly)

This card is friggin amazing

Also i have a 1000w hyperM PSU and i have all this attached to it
1x 60gig corsair ssd
2x WD caviar BLACK (2x 1TB) Sata3
2x WD Raptor (150gig raid) sata 1
1x WD carviar green (1 TB)
500gig Momentus Hybrid sata 2
Blu-Ray DVD rw
2x GTX 480's

with water cooling XSPC 750 Pump/res
and 4 x 230m fans (2 at the top 1 in the side and 1 at the front)
1x 200m fan (Rear exhast)
4x 120 m fans for the rad (push pull with two of the 230m fans pulling and 3x 120m Fans pushing and 1x 120m at the back of the Graphics cards cards)

I have an I7 970 @ 4.2gig and 6gig corsair dominator ram @ 2000mhz and thats on a P6X58-D motherboard

STABLE AS YOU LIKE so all that attached and i am stable meens that these cards arnt as bad as one would have you belive with needing LOADS of power

i recon a basic system ie 2 hard drives raid and a moderate oc on a new i3,i5 or i7 cpu 1x dvd drive etc would handle 2 of these with a 800w+ (good quality) PSU with enough amps on each rail

(correct me if i am wrong but isnt the amps on the rail are more important than overall wattage?)
 
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Would the SE or SOC be better as a direct replacement for a 5870? I've kind of had it with the ATI drivers, just not performing what it should be in certain games and just want to go back to an Nvidia card.

I know one is almost £40 cheaper than the other, but seeing as i'll be selling my other card i don't mind adding more onto it to have a better card.
 
v1bez said:
Would the SE or SOC be better as a direct replacement for a 5870? I've kind of had it with the ATI drivers, just not performing what it should be in certain games and just want to go back to an Nvidia card.

I know one is almost £40 cheaper than the other, but seeing as i'll be selling my other card i don't mind adding more onto it to have a better card.
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Overclockers.co.uk has the SE £15 cheaper than the SOC vesion

I went for the SOC as it was pre overclocked
 
Yeah it is £15 mate, but there is a 10% code which makes them £202 delivered with the free special delivery making it almost £40.

I thought i'd get told to go the SOC route, just a shame as i my 5870 rocked in some games and underperformed in others due to the flakey drivers.
 
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