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

I gave up trying to get mine to run anywhere near stock GB volts and out of box clocks

but its still running nicely (if rather hot - 89C in BF3) - and stable @ 1.1V - 810Mhz

and even with my lowly Q6600 - thats giving me 45fps in BF3 - all ULTRA + 2xAA @ 1900

so well happy really
 
I was sweeating buckets playing BF3 last night !

seems that sheer grunt is good for modern games :)

thats what I've always liked about high end Nvidias - my 8800GTx was the same
 
a heads up for any owners of this card

my temps had gone up quite a bit - I was getting early 90s in Skyrim (OK the 480 is heavily overclocked) ... I regularly clean the intake filters on myPC so it wasn't that

decided to pull out the PC today and checkout the graphics card itself, and the 480SOC heatsinks under the fan were stuffed full or dust - even though my case is fully filtered - so I'm guessing the Gigabyte cooler pulls some air from out the back through the grill etc. Anyway- after use of some cotton woll buds, and some compressed air - my load temps in Skyrim have gone from 93C to 80C :)
 
I bought this card like a lot of us last year when they were on £240 special offer.

Recently I've noticed when booting the card says during POST "Engineering Sample"

It seems that these cards have shipped with the LN2 bios activated by default, not the stock bios.

Pressing the button on the card bottom right corner selects the default bios and removes the ES warning (button in - default, button out - LN2)

Haven't noticed any differences yet running on the stock bios versus LN2
 
:) yeah if you have the LN2 bios enabled you get a pre-post "GPU" bios message :)

I think for normal use the stock bios is better - but in reality I don't think any difference :)
 
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