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

mysticsniper said:
Hmmm, you have me thinking now, weather to make a purchase or not? So if the PSU is ok, are there a few bad batches with each stock being sold?
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Seems like a lot of the SOC aren't capable of doing the clocks they are being sold at.

The SE's however all seem to be fine, not seen anyone with a problem with one yet.
 
when the monitor is connected to the top card i get this score FPS = 87.1 Score = 2195 Min Fps = 46.5 Max Fps = 192.4 @ 1680x1050 with 4xAA the rest standard settings

With the monitor on the 2nd crd (bottom slot at 8x) i get this score FPS 88.2 Score 2221 Min Fps 47.7 Max FPS 194.0 @ 1680x1050 with 4xaa and rest are standard settings again

This is in sli.
top card is the SOC bottom card is the Pixelview 480
I get a little tearing in Heaven and i had a serious crash where the machine restarted lol but got the bench on 2nd attempt, Though in games i get NO TEARING, Could it be the bench prog that is causing it or would it be the card? also could differant clock speeds on each card cause problems ie the SOC is stock 820 etc and my other is oc to 850 etc

** funny!! when i have the monitor on the 2nd card (pixleview in 8x bottom pci slot) i get ZERO tearing and higher scores
 
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HeX said:
Seems like a lot of the SOC aren't capable of doing the clocks they are being sold at.

The SE's however all seem to be fine, not seen anyone with a problem with one yet.
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This is also true for 580 and probably other high end OC cards. Hence why there is usually only a small overclock.

All top end cards are pushing the thermal limits and trying to get away with minimum voltages because of the thermal load.
 
how do you reply to a webnote ? trying to RMA mine

I've had a reply- but I can't find a way when replying via a webnote - to reference the initial reply from OCUK ?
 
Hi I have corsair HX1000 and an i7 overclocked to 4ghz. I use 1 ssd and 2 regular hdd with a bluray drive and xonar essence st card with a power plug on it.

I wish to add a gigabyte SE to my asus reference model and run sli (new motherboard is in post now p6t). My asus runs at 800mhz and I will be raising the gigabyte to 800mhz too.

Will I be running into any problems?
 
bemaniac said:
Hi I have corsair HX1000 and an i7 overclocked to 4ghz. I use 1 ssd and 2 regular hdd with a bluray drive and xonar essence st card with a power plug on it.

I wish to add a gigabyte SE to my asus reference model and run sli (new motherboard is in post now p6t). My asus runs at 800mhz and I will be raising the gigabyte to 800mhz too.

Will I be running into any problems?
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Power wise you should be good to go :)

The only problem you may encounter is if the 2nd card cant match the 800Mhz core and you would then have to down the Asus core.

Remember in the world of overclocking there are no guarantees...sadly :p
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Power wise you should be good to go :)

The only problem you may encounter is if the 2nd card cant match the 800Mhz core and you would then have to down the Asus core.

Remember in the world of overclocking there are no guarantees...sadly :p
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Oh that's ok I'd be chuffed to have them at 750mhz to be honest I just need rift with full anisotropic filtering on the ground textures, top shadows and AA without going below 30fps which I currently do!
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Power wise you should be good to go :)

The only problem you may encounter is if the 2nd card cant match the 800Mhz core and you would then have to down the Asus core.

Remember in the world of overclocking there are no guarantees...sadly :p
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I have my gigabyte at 820core and my other 480 at 850 core and they run fine together

pixelview 480 (overclocked) @ 850core,1700shader and 1900 ram
Gigabyte 480SOC @ 820core,1640 shader and 1900ram

my heaven bench was 2221 score so i think he should be ok with adding the new card withought worries
 
Glad of the confident replies cheers! Now to find a good cooler for the asus before 6 months of playing rift all night melts it :)
 
Well, finally got the pair of GTX 480 SoC's that I order last Monday !!

Only tested one card so far. No issues in Kombuster or Heaven, might have spotted some problems in Crysis though (little green pixels popping up sometimes - rarely though).

Card is great so far, noiser than my HD 5850's for sure though (prob get worse in SLi).

Biggest downside for me is the 48% idle fan speed. It is rather audible, espcially coming from my near silent HD 5850's.

It is however FAR better than the GTX 470's I owned (got rid of them because of the noise).

The worst part is if you put the the speed down to 44%, the noise fades into the background, and at 40% disappears altogether. Can't help but feel 40% should have been the default idle speed, it really is night and day between 40% and 48%.

**Edit** - just set to 35% fan speed and the idle temp is 43c. Have no idea why they went for such a high idle fan speed :(
 
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Just ran Kombuster for 30mins with no Artifacts at a load temp of 100 degrees :eek: Have to say it was hot but glad there were no artifacts, feeling good about the stability lets see how it goes in crysis next :p
 
Whoa! 100 degrees C??

I only tested for 10 mins, but mine plateaued at circa 85c after about 5 minutes.

There really is some heavy variations on these cards...maybe the airflow in people cases isn't up to the job??
 
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