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

Okay so ive literaly lost it with my GTX 480.. a lot of frezzing in games, errors even at Stock speeds! on OCCT so ive took it out and put it back in its packaging were it bloody belongs..

ive resorted back to a 9800GT wich is stable atleast..

so how do i RMA this thing? if someone could give me intructions it'd be mostly appreciated..

oh and another little note might have to send my bloody case back as well (big Sigh) Power button stuck tried to get it unstuck by unscrewing it and putting back into place didnt work (Zalman Z9)
 
Bayk said:
Okay so ive literaly lost it with my GTX 480.. a lot of frezzing in games, errors even at Stock speeds! on OCCT so ive took it out and put it back in its packaging were it bloody belongs..

ive resorted back to a 9800GT wich is stable atleast..

so how do i RMA this thing? if someone could give me intructions it'd be mostly appreciated..
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RMA to gigabyte not OCuk As gigabyte gave cleeecooo a 580 for his troubles and his 480 lol so well worth it IMO

I am sending mine back because it errors in OCCT at stock SOC speeds and voltage

You need to email them at [email protected] then they will send a rma form email etc
 
Bayk said:
Okay so ive literaly lost it with my GTX 480.. a lot of frezzing in games, errors even at Stock speeds! on OCCT so ive took it out and put it back in its packaging were it bloody belongs..

ive resorted back to a 9800GT wich is stable atleast..

so how do i RMA this thing? if someone could give me intructions it'd be mostly appreciated..

oh and another little note might have to send my bloody case back as well (big Sigh) Power button stuck tried to get it unstuck by unscrewing it and putting back into place didnt work (Zalman Z9)
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You need to do an RMAwebnote follow the link

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/support.php
 
I've decided to hold on to mine for now at least. I played some Mafia II and it was great - no sparklies or anything, and it was as smooth as silk. I'm also spending some time with another sim and that's perfectly good too. I uninstalled OCCT! The card seems fine in everything I do, so it's good enough. I can't face RMA'ing the second one!

One question, what should the voltage be reading in Afterburner?
 
philstanbridge said:
I've decided to hold on to mine for now at least. I played some Mafia II and it was great - no sparklies or anything, and it was as smooth as silk. I'm also spending some time with another sim and that's perfectly good too. I uninstalled OCCT! The card seems fine in everything I do, so it's good enough. I can't face RMA'ing the second one!

One question, what should the voltage be reading in Afterburner?
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mines at 1025v
 
therutz said:
RMA to gigabyte not OCuk As gigabyte gave cleeecooo a 580 for his troubles and his 480 lol so well worth it IMO

I am sending mine back because it errors in OCCT at stock SOC speeds and voltage
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Really? So looks like his curse of death/problem to every graphic card he bought and touch has finally lifted and landed him the jackpot :p

So I guess lots of people would now try to delibrately find small and insignificant problems with the card, and try to RMA to Gigabyte hoping for an upgrade to GTX580 :D

May be something along this line?
"My GTX 480 SOC is unstable at the default voltage out of the box. Giving it a tiny voltage bump would make it stable, but since the factory overclock is not stable at default voltage, I would like to RMA the card and get a GTX580 as replacement please thank you very much" lulz
 
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I take it these are artefacts I should be looking out for?

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Wow, this thread is long.

I am a bit out of touch with these cards, was thinking of purchasing a GTX 480 soon as the prices slowly hit £180 mark and that would cost me £100 (or so) to upgrade from my HD5850. I game at 2560x1440 and a few games require to turn certain things down to not experience slowdowns.

I was wondering if anyone could bring up the issues these cards are having? I can't really be bothered to search through a thousand posts, am I correct to understand that these cards need more voltage at stock than they're supplied with?
 
Cleeecooo said:
Only problem with some of the cards is that the factory overclock isnt stable. Some are fixed with some more volts others arent.
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So am I to understand that if you back the clocks to match a stock GTX 480's and also keep the voltage down to that of a stock card, everything would be fine?
 
djkav said:
I take it these are artefacts I should be looking out for?

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When core clock clocked to high, the artifacts are usually little squares/dots that appear random appear over the screen.

The "tearing" in your screenshot on the otherhand are usually caused by memory or shader clocked being clocked too high, not the core clock. Try lowering the memory clock and see if the tearing will disappear? If not, try lowering shader clock next.

If you are getting these tearings running on the GTX480 SOC default clocks settings, I would suggest you RMA the card.
 
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gonna set my voltages manually before i RMA it. it currently says OO.OO so as ive gathered the stock voltages are around 1010 - 1025? what about the Memory voltages tho does that matter?
 
meh nvm even if i try and get my volts at say 1025 the computer justs blackscreens then just makes weird noises from the GPU.
 
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