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GTX 485/475
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I wouldn't expect them soon tbh. Nvidia has to sell many of the original Fermi cards before they become profitable. Seeing how GTX 460 succeeded and took over the place of GTX 465, I would have thought that they will hold on with a release of GTX 470/480 superiors. We are more likely to see some more price cuts in the near future.
Hmm i want to go sli either 460 or 470 but i dont think sli 460 is enough power so i was hoping for maby a powerfull single card came out.
The big question is that £100 extra plus maby more expensive blocks for the 470 is worth the performance boost but heat and the power wont be a problem because im defently going watercooling.
The big question is that £100 extra plus maby more expensive blocks for the 470 is worth the performance boost but heat and the power wont be a problem because im defently going watercooling.
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-032-ZT
Just seen this!.
think it will get any cheaper??
Just seen this!.
think it will get any cheaper??
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-032-ZT
Just seen this!.
**** me! That's insane! I gotta get me another 470 for SLI!
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-032-ZT
Just seen this!.
Now THAT'S a bargain!!
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-032-ZT
Just seen this!.
Ordered 2 earlier along with a couple of EK water blocks elsewhere!
They will get cheaper for sure but just buy when the balance of wanting it/price balance meets your needs. Give it a year or so and these will be worth about half that price but it's just the nature of graphics cards.
Personally I think £235 for a card of that power with 5 years' warranty AND Just Cause 2 is a great price, and I for one couldn't resist.
As for the GTX 475 and 485s...if the previous generation is anything to go buy, performance will be very, very similar to what we have now. Will be many months before something notably better comes along. From nVidia, longer.
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hehe, that would be why I mentioned the shockingly obvious 470gtx bargain threads where they dropped them to £270, would be awful buys as they clearly just wanted to shift as many for as much as possible just before the 460gtx came along and made them a almost pointless purchase.
Its a hard call, my guess would be soon actually, but I don't think it will be a 485gtx, no idea what they'll call it. Theres one shader cluster disabled on the 460gtx, meaning they've got space for another card. Either Nvidia really have monumental issues with the process, or they've got PLENTY of full shader cluster parts waiting to go. So either they've got them being stockpiled and just want to clear up all remaining 480/470gtx cards on the shelves before releasing maybe a 475GTX or something. Maybe with the extra 10% shaders, and higher default clocks.
The other option is that their 60% bigger Fermi GF100 was impossible to get a full part out of, well in any quantity they could release a product as, and a part now smaller than a 5870 core still can't get a fully working part out. My bet would be stockpiling till the 480/470/465gtx are sold out, if its the later, if they still can't make them, they are truly and utterly retarded.
Theres also the potential for a new GF100, based on the GF104 design with a few extra clusters, somewhere midway between GF104/GF100 size, so maybe 400-440 shaders somewhere, which would put it somewhere like 15-20% faster than the current 460gtx.
A 512sp GF100 is a possibility but incredibly unlikely. They'd be making entire wafers to get a few cores while the cut down versions aren't viable options and can't be sold, if they've got a few thousand stockpiled, it will make for a very unhappy fanbase if no one can buy its "top" card. What I can't see, in ANY circumstance, is a "refresh" 485gtx, that would be a gf100 with higher clocks and all the shaders, certainly not anything with more than 512shaders, that has literally no chance till 28nm, which for Nvidia/TSMC, looks to be Q3 next year.
Its a hard call, my guess would be soon actually, but I don't think it will be a 485gtx, no idea what they'll call it. Theres one shader cluster disabled on the 460gtx, meaning they've got space for another card. Either Nvidia really have monumental issues with the process, or they've got PLENTY of full shader cluster parts waiting to go. So either they've got them being stockpiled and just want to clear up all remaining 480/470gtx cards on the shelves before releasing maybe a 475GTX or something. Maybe with the extra 10% shaders, and higher default clocks.
The other option is that their 60% bigger Fermi GF100 was impossible to get a full part out of, well in any quantity they could release a product as, and a part now smaller than a 5870 core still can't get a fully working part out. My bet would be stockpiling till the 480/470/465gtx are sold out, if its the later, if they still can't make them, they are truly and utterly retarded.
Theres also the potential for a new GF100, based on the GF104 design with a few extra clusters, somewhere midway between GF104/GF100 size, so maybe 400-440 shaders somewhere, which would put it somewhere like 15-20% faster than the current 460gtx.
A 512sp GF100 is a possibility but incredibly unlikely. They'd be making entire wafers to get a few cores while the cut down versions aren't viable options and can't be sold, if they've got a few thousand stockpiled, it will make for a very unhappy fanbase if no one can buy its "top" card. What I can't see, in ANY circumstance, is a "refresh" 485gtx, that would be a gf100 with higher clocks and all the shaders, certainly not anything with more than 512shaders, that has literally no chance till 28nm, which for Nvidia/TSMC, looks to be Q3 next year.
ive got enough cash to buy 2 of these now with some ek blocks but if i wait will they go out of stock ot maby even get cheaper?, it wil be end of next month before i start bulding 
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