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****Official GTX580 user reviews/benchmarking/overclocking thread****

480 @ 870 core/2000 mem


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Then Nvidia rep doesn't understand properly.

TBH SPL measurements are not actually worth a lot anyway. By altering the frequency you can affect the reading, assuming they are using a commercial based weighted measure. This places greater emphasis on the sound we hear easily as humans and therefore sound that appears louder than the true energy it is made up from.

Its quite a specialist area, some high pitched sounds can be a hell of a lot more annoying than lower frequencys yet the SPL will probably record a much higher reading for the low frequency vs the high frequency.

What am I saying, well a clever approach to tuning these sort of things would allow you to get people to produce low readings that do not seem so low in reality. I spent too many years playing with DB meters when tuning car hifi installs to know that the pure reading isnt as simple as people think.

Most websites wont even correctly measure said noice level as it requires a specialist environment to be able to do so.
 
TheRealDeal said:
The point is you know amd fanboys will come and ruin the thread with that opening sentence so why do it when theres no need, thats why people are saying its a stupid first line.
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People should not have to think about what they post just in case it annoys the more insipid fanboys who inhabit this forum. Raven did not post anything that was untrue. If the more excitable among us cannot handle that then perhaps they need to step away from the keyboard and go back to crayons.

Fact is, this thread was created to talk about the 580, which is currently (or will be later this afternoon) the single fastest GPU currently available. This will change, and I have no doubt that on the AMD 6900 series launch this thread will be 'hilariously' trolled to death, but until that happens the OP's opening statement stands.
 
layte said:
People should not have to think about what they post just in case it annoys the more insipid fanboys who inhabit this forum. Raven did not post anything that was untrue. If the more excitable among us cannot handle that then perhaps they need to step away from the keyboard and go back to crayons.

Fact is, this thread was created to talk about the 580, which is currently (or will be later this afternoon) the single fastest GPU currently available. This will change, and I have no doubt that on the AMD 6900 series launch this thread will be 'hilariously' trolled to death, but until that happens the OP's opening statement stands.
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I agree with what you have said but we don't want another amd v nv thread. I want to see benchmarks with views from people so in the best interests of the thread i would not have opened with that line. Especially as nv already had the fastest gpu on the planet so nothing much has changed.

On a serious note i take it you won't be changing from gtx480 sli to gtx580 sli.
 
TheRealDeal said:
On a serious note i take it you won't be changing from gtx480 sli to gtx580 sli.
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Totally not worth it in my opinion. My watercooled setup will probably break even with the highest end 580 aircooled rigs, and replacing all the blocks is not a job I want to be looking at any time soon.

Perhaps if the 6900 series as all that the red team are hyping it up to be I might keep one as a PhysX card. lolz
 
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layte said:
Totally not worth it in my opinion. My watercooled setup will probably break even with the highest end 580 aircooled rigs, and replacing all the blocks is not a job I want to be looking at any time soon.

Perhaps if the 6900 series as all that the red time are hyping it up to be I might keep one as a PhysX card. lolz
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Me too. My overclocked watercooled gtx470's will be a matching stock gtx580 SLI's and I don;t fancy spending almost a grand for new cards plus waterblocks for maybe a max 10% gain.

I would rather buy a 980X ;)
 
Let's hope the UK retail price will not be beginning with a "4" instead of a "3"...or it will make the 580 pointless, even with the decent performance shown in reviews so far...

Performance, temp and power consumption looks good comparing to GTX480...let's hope it won't fail on the pricing part...:o
 
layte said:
Totally not worth it in my opinion. My watercooled setup will probably break even with the highest end 580 aircooled rigs, and replacing all the blocks is not a job I want to be looking at any time soon.

Perhaps if the 6900 series as all that the red team are hyping it up to be I might keep one as a PhysX card. lolz
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I am of the same opinion I think, my wc SLI setup, over clocks really well so I can't see any point in upgrading it all... how much of a gain would I have with 580's in SLI? at 2560 x 1440?
 
ntemples1 said:
I am of the same opinion I think, my wc SLI setup, over clocks really well so I can't see any point in upgrading it all... how much of a gain would I have with 580's in SLI? at 2560 x 1440?
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Assuming you can get a better overclock from the gtx580's I'd say 10% max in some games and hardly any in others.

Of course your vantage score would be 30% better :p
 
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