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

Something interesting I found. When I changed my 5870 for the 480 soc. My screen now looks all washed out. Played around with the monitor settings, and I cant seem to make the colours rich again like they were.
 
kitch9 said:
The amount of heat created will be exactly the same as any other 480. The cooler is just better at moving the heat away from the gpu and putting it somewhere else, in this case it will be dumped into your case.
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Sort of, the SOC will be less heat than a similar clocked 480 as it uses less volts however a stock clocked 480 and a stock clocked SOC I guess will put out about the same amount.
 
Reed said:
Currently testing my GTX480 SOC and seems to be unstable at the advertised speeds. I get 30'000 errors within a minute using OCCT however if i underclock it down to 780 core clock then it becomes stable and 0 errors :(. Will carry on testing it and not tried it out in any actual games yet but it isn't looking good.
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I wouldnt be bothered about OCCT it is totally unrealistic in my opinion.
 
djkav said:
Something interesting I found. When I changed my 5870 for the 480 soc. My screen now looks all washed out. Played around with the monitor settings, and I cant seem to make the colours rich again like they were.
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I had to reinstall windows to do away with the last of my issues going from 5870 to 480 (frame rate would lock at 72 fps not 60 when coming out of sleep)
 
I rechecked emails from Gigabyte - they'd run (with apparently no artefacts) Furmark for 3 hrs 50 minutes ! I have a screenshot of it with that time on it - and you can see the voltage is the stock 1.038V

I'm ordering a Corsair HX850 this weekend and will go from there

hopefully this will cure it - but if not - I have no idea what the issue is.

Gigabyte should probably update their 650W recommendation on their site I guess.
 
Buckster said:
I rechecked emails from Gigabyte - they'd run (with apparently no artefacts) Furmark for 3 hrs 50 minutes ! I have a screenshot of it with that time on it - and you can see the voltage is the stock 1.038V

I'm ordering a Corsair HX850 this weekend and will go from there

hopefully this will cure it - but if not - I have no idea what the issue is.

Gigabyte should probably update their 650W recommendation on their site I guess.
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Well I do have a 650W Corsair TX which does run it absolutely fine, no power issues there, must just depend on how good the psu is really. But artifacts themselves are just a strange issue at times, different environments and testing would give different results.

My Room is like a sauna at times being so close to the boilers in the house so I almost can test the cards to extremes out the box haha
 
returned an soc the other day to overclockers and they've found no faults can't say i was that surprised reading other peoples issues. never had so much trouble with anything motherboard is AMD crosshair formula 3 could this be a problem? power supply is 650w XFX XXX how could that be a problem i even took everything bar one memory stick, hd, coolers etc. out of my build still the same artifacts. tried new install of windows 7 too.
i'm pretty sure these cards do not work as advertised many of them anyway maybe newer drivers push them too far for certain psu's. wish i stuck with 4870x2 never a single problem!
 
well decided to get my PC ready for SOC's return on Monday ....

and new PSU on Tuesday - wish me luck

so to get ready - I basically gave the PC as massive spring clean - I always keep my heatsinks on GPU, CPU and fans all clean (dust filters as well) - but decided today to also clean out the 4 years of thick dust on all the surfaces of the case- lots of squeezed out baby wipes - and 1 1/2 hrs of graft and the insides are as good as new - ended up being a bit of an epic as tidied up cabling, got rid of some old cables that weren't used, re-route the fan cables etc - just neated everything up - at a minimum it'll make for an easier job to remove PSU (and will be a lot less dusty now !) - on Tuesday when new one arrives

CPU idle temps have gone down 7-9C - which is a good start :)
 
Well i'm in the proccess of returning my soc to overclockers, terrible artifacts out of the box! 100000 of errors instantly in OCCT, really considering a 570 in return but like the performance of the soc.

I have a 720 infini psu so that can't be the problem!
 
^^ Grale you reckon ? I have a 700W Tagan - and had same

returned to Gigabyte RMA - and NFF - and from their emails they sent me (with lots of screenshots, photos of card on test rig etc) - I believe them - so can only be my PSU ! :(
 
Don't say that!! I can't believe that it's our psu's at fault.

I have only internal sound card, 1 DVD drive, joystick, and 2 hdd's running, and obviously mouse and keyboard.
I have used 4of I think about 8-9 power outputs on my psu.

I'm going tobsend to overclockers and not gb though.
 
well put it this way I ran OCCT/furmark with artefacts all over the place - Heaven artefacts all over the place

Gigabyte sent me screenshots of Furmark running for 3 hrs 50 mins - with according to them no artefacts, no artefacts in Heaven - and these were all at stock volts and SOC clock speeds

Gigabyte have replaced a card for me in past with no question - so I've no reason to doubt them - and as my motherboard was fine with a GTX570 and my 4890 - the only final factor can be my PSU ! :(

the internal sound card, joystick, HDDs all won't draw much power - a HDD is less than 20W etc etc - wheras the GTX could be as much as 300W ...
 
Grale - looks decent PSU - but wondering if you are suffering from similar problem to me ..

when I bought my Tagan - split rails were the rage on high end PSUs - so a number of dedicated rails - but at lower amps

these days a single rail is more common, and more compatible with higher end GPUs

I'm wondering if in both our Cases (my Tagan is 4x 12V rails of 20A each) - the 12V rails just aren't providing enough juice

a "modern" Corsair 650W is prob single rail- less chance therefore of it not providing the current the GPU requires

just a thought
 
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