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That would be nice
I would help but i live to far away i think as im down east in Essex (yes im an essex boy
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**Gigabyte Super OC GTX 480's - VERY LOW PRICES!**
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That would be nice
I would help but i live to far away i think as im down east in Essex (yes im an essex boy
)that won't work on my old motherboard... which is why i kinda want to wait. its £70 for 2x 2GB ddr2 RAM. I can get much better RAM, not to mention more of it, for cheaper... but i need a new motherboard/CPU to go with it.
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That ram you have is 667mhz ram
can you not run
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-284-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144 with what you have >? (remembering that the timings and voltage will need to be the same)
Soldato
You can get DDR3 775 mobos for £40-45. Maybe it is worth considering?
Soldato
TBH, It's pretty much upgrading his whole system. Might aswell go all the way and move to a sandy.
Otherwise:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-297-GI&tool=5
and
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
Yea I think I'll just wait to upgrade my whole system...
I did try adding in my older RAM so I now have 4x 1GB (had to reduce my CPU OC to 3Ghz), I know they're slightly different sets but it seems to work fine. Windows memory test didn’t find any problems. Unfortunately it hasn’t really had any effect on performance. So I'm not entirely convinced RAM is the problem... When I run OCCT there are thousands of errors after ~15 seconds or so and lots of white pixels, but Heaven and other games seems ok. I really can’t be arsed sending another one back...
I’m still not really sure why the performance isn't much different to my 8800 GTS though...
I did try adding in my older RAM so I now have 4x 1GB (had to reduce my CPU OC to 3Ghz), I know they're slightly different sets but it seems to work fine. Windows memory test didn’t find any problems. Unfortunately it hasn’t really had any effect on performance. So I'm not entirely convinced RAM is the problem... When I run OCCT there are thousands of errors after ~15 seconds or so and lots of white pixels, but Heaven and other games seems ok. I really can’t be arsed sending another one back...
I’m still not really sure why the performance isn't much different to my 8800 GTS though...
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Soldato
You should see a massive difference!
That would be nice
I would help but i live to far away i think as im down east in Essex (yes im an essex boy
I'm in Essex too
Let me do some more testing and I'll get back to you
Thanks mark
yea, dont really know why I'm not though
At 1920x1080, with all settings on max except physX turned off I can run mafia 2 @ ~70 FPS. With PhysX turned to high I get about ~15-25 FPS. Is that normal with this card and my system?Cheers
Soldato
yea, dont really know why I'm not though
Cheers
Fraid i didnt have a chance to try mafia 2
Associate
I'm in Essex too
Let me do some more testing and I'll get back to you
Thanks mark
I work from home so am about most of the time
Feel free to pop in and fit it in this rig and just see what happens
Associate
yea, dont really know why I'm not though
Cheers
I got 40+FPS with mafia 2 with physx on and in 3d so the card should perform better than what you get,,
Think you are bottlenecked there
It was going so well...
OCuk agreed to ship out a new GPU on monday. I recieved it tuesday and fitted it tonight.
Did the entire (pain in the ass) driver removal/sweeper run and then installed the new card and installed the drivers.
The first thing I noticed was my sidebar gadget reporting the idle temperatures higher than the old card. So I opened up Afterburner and it was true, about 9 degrees higher at idle.
So I fired up OCCT and ran a test. First off it was great news, no errors. But the temps kept climbing, passed the normal temperature my old 480 SOC ran at and just kept going. Eventually at 102 degrees (and still climbing) it started getting errors and I shut it down.
So another test, I dropped the card into energy saving mode and fired the test off again, this time with the side of the case off.
It got hotter slower, but it still got over 100 degrees, although this time with no errors.
I am thinking this is too hot. Anyone else agree? Is this a DOA though this time?
OCuk agreed to ship out a new GPU on monday. I recieved it tuesday and fitted it tonight.
Did the entire (pain in the ass) driver removal/sweeper run and then installed the new card and installed the drivers.
The first thing I noticed was my sidebar gadget reporting the idle temperatures higher than the old card. So I opened up Afterburner and it was true, about 9 degrees higher at idle.
So I fired up OCCT and ran a test. First off it was great news, no errors. But the temps kept climbing, passed the normal temperature my old 480 SOC ran at and just kept going. Eventually at 102 degrees (and still climbing) it started getting errors and I shut it down.
So another test, I dropped the card into energy saving mode and fired the test off again, this time with the side of the case off.
It got hotter slower, but it still got over 100 degrees, although this time with no errors.
I am thinking this is too hot. Anyone else agree? Is this a DOA though this time?
Associate
what are the temps like whilest playing games DTWD?
100c to me is the very very limit and then thats to hot still (IMO)
they do say these cards can go to 105c but heck i would not want to run it that high
100c to me is the very very limit and then thats to hot still (IMO)
they do say these cards can go to 105c but heck i would not want to run it that high
I haven't actually run a game yet, but my old SOC never went above 90 in OCCT or any other heavy test, and this was running it for 20 minutes +. It's average at full tilt was 88 degrees. This card hit 103 in 3 minutes and was still climbing about 1 degree every 5 seconds when I shut down OCCT.
Running something like heaven had the temps hitting 85 before the test finished.
When running Tropical I was getting some funny lighter areas (in lines) at the bottom of the screen. I never noticed them on my old SOC and can't see them on my old 9800GTX when I run the test this morning.
Running something like heaven had the temps hitting 85 before the test finished.
When running Tropical I was getting some funny lighter areas (in lines) at the bottom of the screen. I never noticed them on my old SOC and can't see them on my old 9800GTX when I run the test this morning.
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man that is hot
Mine hits 85c to 90c MAX on occt but 70c to 80c max in games at 820/1641/1900 with a slight bump in volts from 1025v to 1050v to get stable
I wonder if they put the TIM on correctly as that is to high as i say the threshold is 105c on these. if it wasnt for the warentee purposes i would have reapplied some TX-3 to my GB480SOC by now
Mine hits 85c to 90c MAX on occt but 70c to 80c max in games at 820/1641/1900 with a slight bump in volts from 1025v to 1050v to get stable
I wonder if they put the TIM on correctly as that is to high as i say the threshold is 105c on these. if it wasnt for the warentee purposes i would have reapplied some TX-3 to my GB480SOC by now
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Gigabyte is "not aware of any problem"
Ok, as some of you may remember, I initially owned a GTX480 SOC which was artifacting. RMA'ed it, Gigabyte told me "it's faulty" and they sent me a new GTX480 SOC. I ran some tests (you can see them in previous page) and found that this card was also artifacting at stock voltage (1.035v). Thought to overvolt to 1.088v and all problems and errors were solved.
So I reported this issue to Gigabyte Global Technical Service (GGTS). This is what I wrote to them:
"I bought recently your GTX480 SOC. This card was producing artifacts, errors, crashes and freezes and got RMA'ed. Gigabyte here in Greece verified that this was a faulty card (couldn't operate at stock speeds) and sent me a replacement gtx480 soc, of the same revision, s/n and bios. This card, the card I'm using right now, had (has) the same problems. At stock voltage (as I saw later with OC guru, 1.035v) it was producing thousands of errors in stress tools and artifacts in gaming. When I thought to overvolt the card up to 1.088v which I currently use, all problems/errors disappeared whatsoever. My question is: what is the highest safe voltage for GTX480 SOC? Secondly, are you planning to issue an update of bios or something that would solve problems like mine that many users of many markets around the world have?
Thank you."
This is what they replied back to me!!!
"Dear George,
Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. As of now we are not aware of any known problem you mentioned, it might be the hardware faulty issue ,but if the problem still occurs, then there may be a problem with your attached hardware / component, we suggest you can contact your system supplier, and see if they can help you to test the entire system directly to see if there's a hardware / component problem, sorry for the inconvenience. If you still have any further question or suggestion about our products/service, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will try our best to help you resolve the problem ASAP.
Regards,
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY"
I consider the above totally unacceptable. There is a WAVE of complaints and bad cards and they know nothing???
Ok, as some of you may remember, I initially owned a GTX480 SOC which was artifacting. RMA'ed it, Gigabyte told me "it's faulty" and they sent me a new GTX480 SOC. I ran some tests (you can see them in previous page) and found that this card was also artifacting at stock voltage (1.035v). Thought to overvolt to 1.088v and all problems and errors were solved.
So I reported this issue to Gigabyte Global Technical Service (GGTS). This is what I wrote to them:
"I bought recently your GTX480 SOC. This card was producing artifacts, errors, crashes and freezes and got RMA'ed. Gigabyte here in Greece verified that this was a faulty card (couldn't operate at stock speeds) and sent me a replacement gtx480 soc, of the same revision, s/n and bios. This card, the card I'm using right now, had (has) the same problems. At stock voltage (as I saw later with OC guru, 1.035v) it was producing thousands of errors in stress tools and artifacts in gaming. When I thought to overvolt the card up to 1.088v which I currently use, all problems/errors disappeared whatsoever. My question is: what is the highest safe voltage for GTX480 SOC? Secondly, are you planning to issue an update of bios or something that would solve problems like mine that many users of many markets around the world have?
Thank you."
This is what they replied back to me!!!
"Dear George,
Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. As of now we are not aware of any known problem you mentioned, it might be the hardware faulty issue ,but if the problem still occurs, then there may be a problem with your attached hardware / component, we suggest you can contact your system supplier, and see if they can help you to test the entire system directly to see if there's a hardware / component problem, sorry for the inconvenience. If you still have any further question or suggestion about our products/service, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will try our best to help you resolve the problem ASAP.
Regards,
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY"
I consider the above totally unacceptable. There is a WAVE of complaints and bad cards and they know nothing???