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Is it time to upgrade my gtx480 ?

Randall8686

Randall8686

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Well i think its time. I debated it a while ago and never got round to it. The wife is playing sims 4 at highest settings and its warming the games room up a treat. Plays fine @1080p and everything i throw at it, it copes fine. But the heat is starting to pi55 me off. How does a 770 compare ? Am i going to see much difference in frame rate compared to the 480. Open to other suggestions but under £300 is a must and also has to be nvidia for other reasons too.
 
Interesting. Cheers for that. The fact it does not struggle to ay the stuff i play makes me a little uninterested to change as i dont think i will see much difference appart from maybe in sony vegas rendering. Its just the heat thats killing me
 
A Stu mentions, the GTX 770 will be massively more powerful than the GTX 480 (and nicer to live with too). However, please bear in mind that the new GTX 970 and 980 are expected to arrive on the 19th (less than two weeks) and should directly replace the GTX 770 and 780 with faster, more efficient cards at approximately the same price points.

If you are considering spending so much money I would suggest you wait and see how things go on the 19th.
 
 
Happy to wait to be honest if new cards are so close, as i said it does everything i want apart from it gets so hot. I even had to when i upgraded to the card fit a 850watt psu as the 500 kept over heating lol
 
The current top end cards give out just as much heat as a gtx 480, so a 770 is probably as high as you would want to go for that.
Though as mentioned, the new Nvidia cards could be your solution.
 
But surely the load would not be as high playig the same games. Playing sims4 now and the poor thing is singing away kecking out a ton of heat @75c
 
Well I just upgraded a 480 GTX that I have been using almost 4 years with an AMD R9 285, it was a huge upgrade, much faster in every respect, much quieter and puts out probably half the heat. A 770 GTX is a bit faster than a 285, not sure how it compares in terms of heat output though. Either way, you will be making a significant and noticable upgrade in all things.
 
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