Soldato
Be screwed if you had 2 of these coolers on both cards and wanted to sli on a tight board tho ^
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**Gigabyte Super OC GTX 480's - VERY LOW PRICES!**
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I'm really intrigued about your PSU issues! Go on, give us brief summary....
I've recently discovered that what I thought was an excellent 750W PSU actally has high voltage ripple, so I've just ordered an 850W XFX Black Edition to replace it.
I'll explain later - but it involves stubbon connectors ...
anyway re ripple- no idea how good or bad my Tagan is - but it has EMI filtering within each of the PCI-E power connectors (I've seen them underneath the large connectors, capactiros etc etc) - so the fact they added these filters to try and reduce ripple - suggests its not great - but who knows.
it cost me about £120 5 years ago - so wasn't a cheap one - but its probably full of dust and not working as efficiently as it was when new - certainly the fans are quite often at full pelt on it.
anyway re ripple- no idea how good or bad my Tagan is - but it has EMI filtering within each of the PCI-E power connectors (I've seen them underneath the large connectors, capactiros etc etc) - so the fact they added these filters to try and reduce ripple - suggests its not great - but who knows.
it cost me about £120 5 years ago - so wasn't a cheap one - but its probably full of dust and not working as efficiently as it was when new - certainly the fans are quite often at full pelt on it.
Soldato
5 years! that's quite a bit of capacitor ageing!
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Yeah. It's fine at stock clocks. Doesn't seem to error in OCCT at stock but at SOC speeds, thats another story..
I've tried running it @ 1075mV but I'll still get errors in Kombustor. Heaven seems fine at this voltage though. Temps get quite high also. Ordering the HX 750 today so when I get it I'll know what to do.
Soldato
hopefully the PSU will sort it out
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Thought I'd do one last video before I get my PSU. Here is Crysis maxed out and uploaded in HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXnZ5NaedE
How may artifacts can you spot..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXnZ5NaedE
How may artifacts can you spot..?
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Soldato
if this many is getting sent out with faults what happened to QC ? , i thought gigabyte were better than this ?
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Thats bad! Are you running it in DX10?
There did not test these cards before they sent them out. i received 2 faulty cards one after the other. I just going to take a refund on the second one.
Im going to avoid Gigabyte from now on.
Soldato
It's a shame because they make great motherboards imo.
Soldato
Maybe you woukd reconsider them if you RMAd to Gigabyte and got a card that was guaranteed to be working. For £240 the 480SOC is easily the best value card IMO. give it another chance
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Maybe you woukd reconsider them if you RMAd to Gigabyte and got a card that was guaranteed to be working. For £240 the 480SOC is easily the best value card IMO. give it another chance
Cleeecooo have you heard from Gigabyte regard the 580?
Soldato
It shouldve arrived yesterday. I emailed them to enquire where it it. I will keeop you updated
Maybe you woukd reconsider them if you RMAd to Gigabyte and got a card that was guaranteed to be working. For £240 the 480SOC is easily the best value card IMO. give it another chance
Im posting the card back to ocuk today. i think i will just take the refund. I wish it just worked out better as i was very excited about the card after reading the reveiws on the internet.
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RMA'ed my gtx480 soc too...
Being a silent reader for some time, I need to say how disappointed I am from this card. Live in Greece, bought it here. I RMA'ed it already and I'll keep you posted about the replacement card (it's one week now).
Since day #1 I got OCCT errors (thousands in seconds), Unigine Heaven artifacts and Crysis 2 artifacts and freezes. Not to mention of course the high temperature problem with dual-monitor setup, although to be fair this must be more an nVidia issue than a Gigabyte one. Also there were times during gaming that I had freezes for some seconds, then the frame rate dropped to half and half of the card's phase leds were going off... Even tried to underclock down to gtx480 stock (700Mhz) or lower, no cure. Tried to change the voltage, tried different versions of drivers, nothing.
Anyway, I've had high expectations for this card, given it's value (price Vs. performance), all the reviews and its near-gtx580 rating. It's more than obvious that this one was not a properly tested card. I wonder: Did all gtx480 socs passed through the "cherry-picking" GPU Gauntlet Gigabyte's highly advertised process?
Being a silent reader for some time, I need to say how disappointed I am from this card. Live in Greece, bought it here. I RMA'ed it already and I'll keep you posted about the replacement card (it's one week now).
Since day #1 I got OCCT errors (thousands in seconds), Unigine Heaven artifacts and Crysis 2 artifacts and freezes. Not to mention of course the high temperature problem with dual-monitor setup, although to be fair this must be more an nVidia issue than a Gigabyte one. Also there were times during gaming that I had freezes for some seconds, then the frame rate dropped to half and half of the card's phase leds were going off... Even tried to underclock down to gtx480 stock (700Mhz) or lower, no cure. Tried to change the voltage, tried different versions of drivers, nothing.
Anyway, I've had high expectations for this card, given it's value (price Vs. performance), all the reviews and its near-gtx580 rating. It's more than obvious that this one was not a properly tested card. I wonder: Did all gtx480 socs passed through the "cherry-picking" GPU Gauntlet Gigabyte's highly advertised process?
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Being a silent reader for some time, I need to say how disappointed I am from this card. Live in Greece, bought it here. I RMA'ed it already and I'll keep you posted about the replacement card (it's one week now).
Since day #1 I got OCCT errors (thousands in seconds), Unigine Heaven artifacts and Crysis 2 artifacts and freezes. Not to mention of course the high temperature problem with dual-monitor setup, although to be fair this must be more an nVidia issue and not a Gigabyte one. Also there was times during gaming that I had freezes for some seconds, then the frame rate dropped to half and half of the card's phase leds were going off... Even tried to underclock down to gtx480 stock (700Mhz) or lower, no cure. Tried to change the voltage, tried different versions of drivers, nothing.
Anyway, I've had high expectations for this card, given it's value (price Vs. performance), all the reviews and its near-gtx580 rating. It's more than obvious that this one was not a properly tested card. I wonder: Did all gtx480 socs passed through the "cherry-picking" GPU Gauntlet Gigabyte's highly advertised process?
Dont know what kind of GPU Gaultlet they are using but if you cant play games without crashing to the desktop you really have to wonder.
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My vendor just called me saying that Gigabyte checked my RMA and indeed my 480SOC was found faulty. They say that since this product is still being produced confused they're sending me a new revision of GTX480 soc.
The question is: do you know anything about "new 480soc revisions"? Why am I so so so so certain that my new replacement card will be RMA'ed as well...? And if there is a new revision, how can I tell??
confused they're sending me a new revision of GTX480 soc.The question is: do you know anything about "new 480soc revisions"? Why am I so so so so certain that my new replacement card will be RMA'ed as well...? And if there is a new revision, how can I tell??