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GTX480 or wait..

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jinxpad

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Hey everyone,

Just looking for a bit of advice really. I'm on the verge of upgrading my graphics card, as it's my bottleneck it seems in performance during my gaming sessions.

I'm definitely leaning towards just getting a 480, but I'm not sure whether or not I should hold out for the holiday season. I haven't really been able to find any reliable information on the next series of Nvidia cards, and whether or not they'll provide a significant boost to performance over the current 480's.

While I'm going to assume that soon they'll probably release a dual GPU card soon, the price will probably be not within my acceptable limits.

So I ask, should I grab a 480 now? Or just wait....
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Now, could be hit by a bus tomorrow, live for the now.
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don't say things like that...still won't get it till tomoz anyways ;p

anyways is your heart set on a GTX480 and can you afford it at this moment if so why not place a order for the Msi one/ hardly any different to the likes of asus sept for warrenty and Bios maybe
 
I was actually looking at possibly getting the eVGA one, I like lifetime warranties, and their step up program. If I cant find one at a decent price though I'd go with the MSI one.

Possible buy time would be this week or end of Sept.
 
well I promised myself I wouldn't bite hte bulliet till it was 350 or below and one is which is a decent brand...so here I am...



I dealt the GTX480 would come below £340 hell even I was lucky and those who got the Msi GTX480 from OCuk
 
I got the EVGA SC which can be picked up for £387, got it for the warranty, resale value with it being EVGA and it's still under warranty even if you remove the stock cooler.
 
The MSI one is looking very promising. Hmmmmm decisions decisions. Still shopping around for the eVGA one but havent found one coming close to the £350 mark which is unfortunate.

grrrrrr, but yeah leaning more towards just getting one now, but I just dont want to have bought one now only for the price to get dropped further with the release of a new card in say 2 months time :/
 
With all the rumours floating around about ATI's new offerings around the corner I would suggest an intermediate option: Grab a GTX460/470, then see what the new 6 series cards are like in the coming couple of months. If they crash and burn, grab another GTX460/470 for some SLI goodness, or sell it and grab a 6 series.
 
yeah and has a £500 price tag

great fun

my new toy should last a few years till it blows up

yes I do have a good powersupply -.-
 
Waiting is for housewives and immigrants, grab gtx 480 now, its a fantastic card, if you're worried about upcoming 485 (which may be years away) get the evga card.
 
straxusii said:
I'd wait as we should find out about the 6870 very soon.
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yeah good point, but if you do that than ATI /Nvidia bring out a new set of cards you wait for that it goes in a cycle sort of thing..than in the end you have to upgrade the whole lot to make good of it.
 
I had the 8800GTX's in SLI when they first came out, and although SLI scaling has been very good with the 4xx cards, I'd prefer to stick with just a single card solution.

The info about the 485's being £500+ has pretty much put me off those, so I'll probably be getting a 480 evga card if I can find it. Based on reviews and such, I think I'll be fine. I wanted to get the 480 originally but just couldn't justify £450 on cards again, they did serve me very well though, and I did get my GTS 250 from evga after one of my 8800's failed.

Cheers for the replies guys!
 
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