NVIDIA GTX 400 SERIES GRAPHICS CARD LAUNCH

hideki · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:04

The 5850 is a good card even compared to the 5870, especially given its overclock potential.

Sycho · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:07

hideki said:
The 5850 is a good card even compared to the 5870, especially given its overclock potential.

How well is your vapor-x performing? what's the temps at load and noise?

MikeHunt79 · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:09

better Nate than lever!

Lightnix · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:10

MikeHunt79 said:
better Nate than lever!

Hm, six months build up, almost as long as the original joke. Not bad.

Bradmax57 · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:16

Aedus said:
Not banned, yet anyway.

I won't post it again, but honestly, the prices of these cards is quite disgusting. I can't believe that Nvidia is that ignorant that they're not in the slightest trying to be competitive on pricing to ATi, I can't fathom where or why they are doing this.

Nothing new there then? I mean as far as Nvidia pricing, they have always been higher afiak?

hideki · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:18

Sycho said:
How well is your vapor-x performing? what's the temps at load and noise?

Very pleased with them. I run my system very quiet, cant stand any case noise and the gfx is silent while running. To hear the fans I need to run Furmark, which starts ramping up the noise in the 70cs, the temp levels off at around 80c. The idle temps are in the 30c's.

Cant say how the vapor-x compares to stock as Ive not heard that. No complaints with this card.

kingy666 · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:21

I like the Asus GTX 480 Which has voltage tweak tool included just incase you want to overclock that little toaster

Mr Fujisawa · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:23

kingy666 said:
I like the Asus GTX 480 Which has voltage tweak tool included just incase you want to overclock that little toaster

s'why i chose that one.

RavenXXX2 · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:25

Look forward to some benchmarks from you. Asus RMA is suppose to be rather good...

kingy666 · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:26

Mr Fujisawa said:
s'why i chose that one.

Maybe you can empty your freezer and stick your pc in it. this will lower the temps and deaden some of the sound

jigger · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:29

kingy666 said:
I like the Asus GTX 480 Which has voltage tweak tool included just incase you want to overclock that little toaster

I would be bringing my phase change kit out of retirement first. The core is hitting close to 100 degrees as it is :eek:

Mr Fujisawa · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:30

jigger said:
I would be bringing my phase change kit out of retirement first. The core is hitting close to 100 degrees as it is

if you read the reviews oc'ing doesnt affect load temps much as it just kicks the fan in to bring the temp down.

Jokester · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:33

jigger said:
I would be bringing my phase change kit out of retirement first. The core is hitting close to 100 degrees as it is

Might need to get it specially tuned to the load, otherwise you might blow your unit :eek:

jigger · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:40

Are you expecting a XFX 480 Fatboy ?

Lightnix · 27 Mar 2010 at 00:41

gizmoy2k said:
Its up now

Dont bother, look elsewhere, they couldnt be more biased if they tried, All the others seem to report similar findings, but gurus conclusion is embarrassing

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-470-480-review/35
pah

I guess the analogy is correct if the cowboy in question is quite sunburnt and has received several wounds without actually having managed to kill the other guy.

jigger · 27 Mar 2010 at 01:02

Mr Fujisawa said:
if you read the reviews oc'ing doesnt affect load temps much as it just kicks the fan in to bring the temp down.

Lower temps usually = higher clock speed. Extra volts and high temp usually equal a visit from the fail boat.

Broken Hope · 27 Mar 2010 at 01:05

Mr Fujisawa said:
if you read the reviews oc'ing doesnt affect load temps much as it just kicks the fan in to bring the temp down.

After reading the following I don't know how you'd want to put a 480 in your system, I'd honestly be worried.

All that power makes for one seriously hot graphics card. Do not be fooled by the 97 degree load temperature. While this is the maximum temperature that we recorded, the fan was spinning so fast things started sliding across my desk towards the test system. The GeForce GTX 480 was truly deafening when running our full load test.

Letting the card sit at the Windows 7 desktop for 20 minutes after stress testing saw the temperature only drop to 65 degrees. When it came time to remove the GeForce GTX 480 from our test system I had to wear a pair of gloves to avoid any possible burns or dropping the extremely hot graphics card. The PCI Express power cables were amazingly soft from all the heat that had been thrown at them.

After 20 minutes and only cooling down to 65 degrees? That's seriously messed up.

RavenXXX2 · 27 Mar 2010 at 01:06

the fan was spinning so fast things started sliding across my desk towards the test system

Nexus18 · 27 Mar 2010 at 01:08

RavenXXX2 said:

Azuse05 · 27 Mar 2010 at 01:09

Broken Hope said:
After reading the following I don't know how you'd want to put a 480 in your system, I'd honestly be worried.

After 20 minutes and only cooling down to 65 degrees? That's seriously messed up.

Which review was that?