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

therutz said:
Keep us posted on the temps etc :p

I cant wait to get mine now lol as i took the other out of my rig due to MASSIVVE heat lol

I OC my origanal 480 i have with the Arctic cooler to 850 ,1700 and 2000 ram
and hope i can match that with the gigabyte one as there was NO WAY i could with the asus one hehe that would have melted me rig :D
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Willstart thread with mt thoughts of the change from a 6970 :).
Those racist dpd dicks instantly presumed my dad was a patel! Hopefully my parcel got to tbe right person or i want my delivery fee back!!!!
 
Ok guys this card is **** hot, but sorry to burst a few bubbles. had serious issues at first. pc powered up but could not get a display. thought to my self i have a dud. swapped back to an Asus 480GTX (other hardwware 2500k running at 4.4ghZ ON A COOLERMASTER SILENT PRO 700W PSU). Put the Asus back in all ok. Took the overclock of the 2500k and revert to stock on it and put the Giga SOC back in. Guess what all ok. However had a look in CPUID HWmonitor and note my 12v rail has dropped from 11.96v to get this 8.98v. holy cr#p.
Ok I am thinking I need to get a 1000w PSU. Oh buy the way the Asus is soooo much louder....
Anyone else got any other idea's, or am i thinking along the right lines my 700w PSU is not up to the job....
Oh if anyones intreseted running the 1680*1050 Unengine benchmark the asus got

Heaven Benchmark v2.5 Basic
FPS: 40.8
Scores: 1027
Min FPS: 25.0
Max FPS: 87.2

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU flags: 3292MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6658 1536Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1680x1050 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal

The giga SOC
Heaven Benchmark v2.5 Basic
FPS: 45.9
Scores: 1157
Min FPS: 28.0
Max FPS: 101.4

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU flags: 3292MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6658 1536Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1680x1050 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal
 
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after much testing with the 480 SOC its friggin amazing for the price.

People are commenting on the sound. Its quite enough but to me its stiill loud.

Is this because i only ever had mid range GFX card? are most high end cards VERY loud?

good job i didnt get the ASUS lol
 
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The only off putting thing I can see on this is the power it still requires. My Corsair 650 is more than enough for a 6970. Yet from what I can see, it is not enough for one of these. Also idle power draw is more if I am not wrong.

Nice cooler though :)
 
RavenXXX2 said:
lol 650 watt corsair is more than enough.
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Even if I was to OC it to say 850 core? Which do you think the SE edition is guaranteed to do? Might be tempted as I have not had an green card since my 8800 GTS. I like to switch from one to another now and then. Lately I have been going for red cards as they have by far been the best for price for performance for me.

I could probably sell my one and make a profit/break even by going for 480 SE. But power draw worries me a bit as I think this will be the last card for this machine, as next year I will build a new Ivy one from scratch with 28nm cards.

What do you guys think? Just stick with 6970 or worth the switch?
 
REDNINEAPB said:
Ok guys this card is **** hot, but sorry to burst a few bubbles. had serious issues at first. pc powered up but could not get a display. thought to my self i have a dud. swapped back to an Asus 480GTX (other hardwware 2500k running at 4.4ghZ ON A COOLERMASTER SILENT PRO 700W PSU). Put the Asus back in all ok. Took the overclock of the 2500k and revert to stock on it and put the Giga SOC back in. Guess what all ok. However had a look in CPUID HWmonitor and note my 12v rail has dropped from 11.96v to get this 8.98v. holy cr#p.
Ok I am thinking I need to get a 1000w PSU. Oh buy the way the Asus is soooo much louder....
Anyone else got any other idea's, or am i thinking along the right lines my 700w PSU is not up to the job....
Oh if anyones intreseted running the 1680*1050 Unengine benchmark the asus got

Heaven Benchmark v2.5 Basic
FPS: 40.8
Scores: 1027
Min FPS: 25.0
Max FPS: 87.2

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU flags: 3292MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6658 1536Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1680x1050 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal

The giga SOC
Heaven Benchmark v2.5 Basic
FPS: 45.9
Scores: 1157
Min FPS: 28.0
Max FPS: 101.4

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU flags: 3292MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6658 1536Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1680x1050 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal
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Do yourself a favour and got to ******s and buy a cheap plug in power meter.

You'll be amazed how little power your pc pulls under normal use.
 
Noticed the same button, appears to refered to on page 15 of the manual is a switch to switch between two bios's the second apparently for a LN2 cooling setup! YIKES
 
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Do yourself a favour and got to ******s and buy a cheap plug in power meter.

You'll be amazed how little power your pc pulls under normal use.[/QUOTE]

Coolermaster power supply only seem's to have 50a on the 12v rail thinking this may be the issue. will look at the cost of a power meter.
 
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