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

I was advised not to get the SOC, but at £15 difference it was then I thought "what the hell". So that was £15 + £17 to send it back to OCuk as it was faulty and then + £21 to send my second "faulty" card back and then be charged for it to come back with no fault.

An utter bargain! :D
 
Perhaps when they were cherrypicking they got the SOC and SE piles muddled up

I don't feel a core that manages at best 790 @ 1.0878v is particularly cherry picked

In fact from reading around seems below average at best
 
Buckster said:
I don't feel a core that manages at best 790 @ 1.0878v is particularly cherry picked
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Definately not!

I have sent the form and proof of purchase to GB for my RMA number. Anyone know how long it takes to receive one?

I was also reading reviews on newegg for Gigabyte cards, the 480 and 5 series cards, and it seems that some of those also suffer from the same unstable overclocks.

It does seem that the SE was the way to go with this one though.
 
A night of testing, trying case fans in different configurations, trying them at different speeds, setting my own fan profiles for the card. Basically in OCCT it's just delaying the inevitable, it hits 100 degrees sooner or later (under 5 minutes everytime).
 
not sure if anyone else noticed this - or just a Fermi thuing in general

but with Vsync off - I don't only get the standard teariing - but also what looks like vertical black scan lines -but only in certain parts of the picture

goes completely with Vsync on

I don't remember seeing these black scan lines on any ofmy other cards

on Heaven is visible say on the horizontal pan across the balloon/ship -on the engines forinstance

and further on in the "smoke" from the chimney
 
Yay, my card levels out in OCCT!

My old SOC did 88 degrees this one levels out at...102! Furmark flashes a warning up after a few minutes telling me I have breached the safe temps...but this card is "not faulty"...great!
 
Because you want something that pushes your cards beyond what games will do, because sooner or later it will have to. Furmark and OCCT push the cards to the max now and in a repeatable way that's going to be the same, or virtually so every time.

There are too many variables in games to really test it. Although I admit, a really faulty card will show up faults in games.
 
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