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

Just to add, I bought a GTX 480 SE (the one with 3 fans).
I too noticed temps up at 60c, with 2 monitors attached. Even with the 2nd one off, it was still hot.
I disabled the 2nd monitor in NVs control panel and the temps plummeted to 44c.

All at out of the box settings for the card. No over clocking on it, and this is on an ASUS p5Q-E mobo, in a case with 2 front intake fans, one rear fan 2 fans in push/pull across Megahalems Big Beasty cooler, pushing air up to top vent and another large fan on top vent pushing heat out the case. - Antec 300 with good airflow.

Also noticed that the grill on the front of the case outside the drive bays, which are inline with the card got very warm to touch with the card at 60c. The rest of the case was cool. Disabled the monitor and the front is cool again.
I wonder if its components at the end of the card that are an issue?

Running a Corsair 750w psu
 
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I just got shed loads of flickering surfaces on my Gigabyte GTX 480 SOC in Starcraft 2 and loads of errors on OCCT in the first few seconds... Using an OCZ Modxstream pro 600 Watt PSU with +25A per 12V Rail, 1x 6pin PCI-E power and 1x 8pin. Do you think this PSU is under spec realistically? I have four hard drives, 2 optical drives, Asus P6T mobo with 12GB RAM and a i7 920 at stock speeds. Only have one PCI card and that is an X-Fi sound card.

Just tested 700Mhz GPU and 1400Mhz shader speeds and no errors in OCCT. Also tried boosting fan speed to 75% and running stock overclocked settings and loads of errors, so it is not heat related as my case has 4 fans. My 12v rail voltage in OCCT reads 12.27 at idle and 11.99 under OCCT load so I think the PSU is probably fine for this card.

How have overclockers been handling these returns? Are many people finding that their cards are being returned with no fault found? I am tempted to RMA my card ASAP...
 
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I've set up a poll/user thread to see what issues people are having, and some further details - please only post on the thread once, and with the details requested in first post :) just trying to get to the bottom of these problems, and the lower then number of RMAs (if its say PSUs not adequate) - the better for us all :)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=18747130#post18747130
 
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oh and to the person asking about thermal pads on the memory at the top near the SLI connector - nope no thermal pads on mine either - good 4 mm gap between top of memory chip and heatsink .... bit odd - but I think any of my issues are memory related

all the other memory chips I can see hae thermal pads on except that one ....
 
All of these cards have that gap on those memory chips, but I think the errors we are seeing on these cards are related to the core not being stable at the supplied voltage. I know they are meant to be cherry picked but I have a feeling Gigabyte made an error of judgement and set the clocks too aggressively without testing thoroughly... It's a shame really because I love the card but just want a stable example.

Just tested my theory and slightly more voltage made the card more stable, but increased heat and fan noise massively. still received errors in OCCT, but it took a good few seconds more and the errors were in the hundreds rather than thousands and built up slowly.

Looks like I will have to RMA... :(
 
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Yes that was me saying about the ram pads on the last mem chip
Bit strange how they missed that one lol

Also i see the min psu rating is 600w and a minimum of 42A on the 12 v rail well my HiPer M 1K series psu has 75A combined but only (22A,22A,32A,29A) on the rails :rolleyes:

one thing i see in the review on youtube is that the gigabyte guru software operates the card differantly to AB ie the lights on the back stay all on on mine 24/7 but with guru they show how much power this beast is pulling in idle and in load ,It manages the cards power whilest AB wont

Any one tried this card using gigabyte guru ? I cant as i use another brand card in sli guru wont load it just errors and i cant be naffed to pull the other card as i finally got it stable now :p
 
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Yes I have tried with the Guru software downloaded from the Gigabyte website and it does make the LEDs on the card display the power usage with 2 LEDs lit on idle and all lit under load. It however makes no difference to the problems I am having with the card showing artifacts in games and giving errors in OCCT. I have a feeling my card may have been a customer return anyway as the cover of the manual is creased...
 
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if you change voltsin OC Guru software does it change (inmanual mode) on pressing apply each time ? mine goes all over the place - each timeI press apply bothmem and core volts change !
 
Yeah I think OC Guru is trying to read the actual draw and it is constantly fluctuating due to changing load on the card and the clock scaling changing the GPU clock dynamically. I don't want to have to back off the core speed or raise the voltage on a brand new card, I paid extra to have the faster card with a cherry picked GPU and could have just gone with the cheaper SE model if I was not bothered about the speed...
 
thebigak said:
Yeah I think OC Guru is trying to read the actual draw and it is constantly fluctuating due to changing load on the card and the clock scaling changing the GPU clock dynamically. I don't want to have to back off the core speed or raise the voltage on a brand new card, I paid extra to have the faster card with a cherry picked GPU and could have just gone with the cheaper SE model if I was not bothered about the speed...
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This tbh...paying the extra for a SOC version of a card you would expect it to work out of the box.

If it didn't I wouldn't hesitate to return the card...why should you have to scale off the clocks as you said. I wouldn't be happy myself if it didn't work as advertised.
 
Yeah exactly, I ordered this card as a keeper because of the decent warranty and custom cooler. I want to be sent a perfectly working example to treat with kid gloves and use for Diablo 3 and Duke Forever!
 
thebigak said:
Yeah exactly, I ordered this card as a keeper because of the decent warranty and custom cooler. I want to be sent a perfectly working example to treat with kid gloves and use for Diablo 3 and Duke Forever!
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Drop OcUK a webnote and explain to them the situation I'm sure they'll get you a replacement when returned.

Reason I got it was the clocks and the very near GTX580 performance for a good price :cool: Im just happy mines is one of the good ones :)
 
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Drop OcUK a webnote and explain to them the situation I'm sure they'll get you a replacement when returned.

Reason I got it was the clocks and the very near GTX580 performance for a good price :cool: Im just happy mines is one of the good ones :)
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Can I ask what PSU you are running in your system? What current draw do you see in the OC Guru software when you run OCCT GPU stress test? Do you see much of a droop on the +12v rail in OCCT when you begin the stress test?
 
thebigak said:
Can I ask what PSU you are running in your system? What current draw do you see in the OC Guru software when you run OCCT GPU stress test? Do you see much of a droop on the +12v rail in OCCT when you begin the stress test?
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Running off a Corsair TX 650W mate.

Haven't checked any of that out tbh, used OC guru however with the software loaded I seem to experience problems with some form of microstuttering when having it loaded so just left it off.
 
Just installed my 480 SOC

Temp @ idle: 46-48C dual display setup.

Installed 266.58 drivers
Installed OC GURU, rebooted.
OC GURU will not start up.

Not run any benches or games yet, want to get OC Guru working first.

Anybody know why oc guru will not start? Win7 64bit
 
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Just installed my 480 SOC

Temp @ idle: 46-48C dual display setup.

Installed 266.58 drivers
Installed OC GURU, rebooted.
OC GURU will not start up.

Not run any benches or games yet, want to get OC Guru working first.

Anybody know why oc guru will not start? Win7 64bit
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Its not very good and is not worth using over afterburner
 
stoke1863 said:
Its not very good and is not worth using over afterburner
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Your probably right

But the fact that it wont work is bugging me now.
I get the following message:
"Initialization failed. Maybe you don't install the driver correctly!"

Plus all the power phaze LEDs are constantly on, even when the card auto downclocks to 51MHz.
 
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