GTX 280 first impressions

[keyser]

Yeah I don't go by 3d marks scores, or superpi, just the app that I want to run faster (currently TF2).

rounddodger: what temp does your cpu run at btw? 3.6Ghz on a Arctic Freezer 7 is pretty good in my book.

 

[Smirnoff]

GTX 280


I've had one for a few days so i did some Crysis benching, The card is pretty disapointing tbh.

 

[Talrinys]

GTX 280


I've had one for a few days so i did some Crysis benching, The card is pretty disapointing tbh.

Overclock results?

 

[Talrinys]

Doubt you will see a GTX2. Have you seen how big the chips are?

Too complicated to make and too expensive. A GTX2 would really have to be a minimum of twice the price so around £800 and maybe £700 once they had one out.

Nvidia seem to be wanting people to go dual,tri and quad SLI in the future so they will just want you to buy two GTX280's or now they have their mix and match SLI driver out, you can now SLI with a GTX280 and a GTX260. Not sure why you would though.

If they are able to share the data via the memory that would mean that they only need the 1GB, so that part won't be double the price.

 

[rounddodger]

Yeah I don't go by 3d marks scores, or superpi, just the app that I want to run faster (currently TF2).

rounddodger: what temp does your cpu run at btw? 3.6Ghz on a Arctic Freezer 7 is pretty good in my book.

Yeah I have quite a cool CPU thankfully! Idles around 28 degree C on both cores and under Orthos blend gets to around 59-61 under load.

Takes a lot of volts mind, 1.5v (iirc) on the bios but it's still cool so no harm done.

Is stable at 3.6 but run it usually at 3.5.

 

[Strife212]

Temperatures while running at 100% load

 

[Talrinys]

Temperatures while running at 100% load

That's quite fine, if it can go as high as the G80 cards that would be quite somer overclocking headroom it has there

 

[wuyanxu]

fan's only at 46% when under load?

put it on 100% and tell us how noisy it is please

 

[psychas]

fan's only at 46% when under load?

put it on 100% and tell us how noisy it is please

like a jet zoOom

 

[Strife212]

lol

Havent increased it manually to 100% but playing Crysis and running benches its never gone louder than my 8800GTX

 

[Smirnoff]

Overclock results?

Anything more than 65 MHz on the core and it atfifacts badly

 

[psychas]

Anything more than 65 MHz on the core and it atfifacts badly

ohhh snap not good for benchmark making guys

 

[Smirnoff]

GTX280 (Clocked)


Even at 650/1150 is was slightly artifacting thought out the benchmark. Card was hot enought to burn you if touched lol

 

[psychas]

man the card cant overclock and overpriced it flopped badly in my opinion

 

[Talrinys]

Damn, that's too bad, really was hoping for some good overclocking possibilites on this card Gonna have to wait for the 55nm for some real shader performance unless i get an ATI card.

 

[Smirnoff]

New ati cards clock well Massive aftermarker air coolers or waterblocks are going to be needed to get high clock on 280gtx i think.

 

[Sumanji]

Does that Goblin have a rocket booster as one leg, and a sack of coins as the other? Interesting advertising...

 

[rounddodger]

Some people can get over 700Mhz on the core, indeed some of the pre-overclocked are 670-700 (Asus TOP and Zotac AMP).

 

[chaparral]

Anything more than 65 MHz on the core and it atfifacts badly

Better then most 8800gtx's....

 

[james.miller]

lol

Havent increased it manually to 100% but playing Crysis and running benches its never gone louder than my 8800GTX

nice. id like to quote this, for a certain somebody who said they would be too loud. Like i told you, you should have ignored any measurement untill somebody had both in front of them. you know who you are.