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

If they haven't taken any money, you'll probably just get a "Sorry, we're unable to complete your order" or "Sorry, this offer is no longer available" :p
 
Ok, so leagally speaking they have made an invitation to treat then and they have not accepted your offer as they have not taken payment. There is NO legal obligation for them to sell you the goods at that price then as no contract has been formed. The shop is free to refuse offers to who they like in fact. Also, consumer law allows for shops (online or otherwise) to make price mistakes and affords them the opportunity to correct that price mistake when they see fit.
 
Yes totally, there is no legal recourse, just hope :-)

As I said before my mate bought a £500 coffee machine for £50 from this site and they honoured it after realising their mistake, there is hope. And it's not like it's 10% of price, it's ~70%
 
We know that actually but you never know and if the cards are dispatched then we win ;)

Besides afew of us have phoned up and they confirmed the price is correct.. which is just.. odd so guess they will be coming.. :D
 
I guess if only a few people spotted the mistake they might have honoured it and then adjusted the price. Reminds me of the time Dell was selling TV's for something like 50 quid and got thousands of orders :)
 
jorzeh said:
We know that actually but you never know and if the cards are dispatched then we win ;)

Besides afew of us have phoned up and they confirmed the price is correct.. which is just.. odd so guess they will be coming.. :D
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I hope they do. Of course that assumes they get stock. What brand is it ?
 
actually price is still the same we should go low with this before mods lock this thread and it would be not really fair for 580gtx overclocking thread
 
I was intending to wait for the 6970 card, but the bits I've read in this thread seem to suggest that the 580 doesn't have the heat 'problems' of the 480 that put me off that. I'm not sure I'll be overclocking (but we'll see) so what sort of temps do they run at at stock speeds?
What sort of temps if run in SLI? I'm using this board, not sure how this PCI-e spacing would affect SLI temps.

I'm assuming every make is pretty even at the minute and they're all reference design?

What power connectors are needed for this, is it still 6-pin & 8-pin?

What sort of PSU would you need to run 580SLI? I've currently got an 850W Antec TruePower, is this enough? How close to the limit would this be?
 
1kw is recommended if you are overclocking..at least for the 480's. Maybe with the 580's you will get away with less. If looks like you have good slot spacing on that board. On my Rampage III which is similar, my 580's run at 38 and 33C when idling. This is at stock speeds with fans all turned down to minimum and fans are on auto profile so run at 40%. Add on another 3-4 degrees if clocked at 830+. The bottom gpu usually runs 5 degrees cooler. When gaming I have never seen them go over 65C. Again with fans on auto profile running well below 60% which is very quiet. When benching at stock in Heaven typically 75C, and up to 85C when overclocked. Bear in mind that I am using the default fan profile. a lot of posters on these forums are manually setting the fan speed very high when benching so will obviously get lower temps then me. Personally for everyday use I think the auto fan profile is fine, as are the noise levels.
 
I love on a lot of reviews that i've seen people are saying it's only 10FPS faster ... but thats 30FPS Vs 40FPS on crysis thats 25%.. it's quite amazing to me i don't think 30fps is very playable for a FPS but 40 is.
 
jorzeh said:
I love on a lot of reviews that i've seen people are saying it's only 10FPS faster ... but thats 30FPS Vs 40FPS on crysis thats 25%.. it's quite amazing to me i don't think 30fps is very playable for a FPS but 40 is.
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30 vs 40 is actually a 33% improvement, and yes it's a massive difference
 
I have bought in bulk before from the site with the "allmost too good to be true price" and it's genuine. As with most things rather than speculate it's better to go straight to the horses mouth so to speak so i did, the price is correct and they do have stock of the item.
Not sure if they are going to apply the same rules they sometimes implement with other items like a limit of 5 of the same item per card payment method, which is fine if you want more just be sure you have more than one payment method handy.
I would watch "other" e retailers tommorrow before placing an order, as mentioned above they don't debit your card until they are ready to dispatch so it could all change right up untill the last minute.
 
Well afew people had there orders canceled but they ordered on the 29th ;) i ordered on 27th and mines still on the system but it's not looking promising fact is no where else has stock of the card for the correct retail price anyway so might as well wait it out or buy a 6990 or something.
 
My own GTX 580 idles at 30-35 C and tends to average around 75 C with the majority of current games (at 1920x1200 with v-sync enabled and 8xAA). I saw the card hit 82 C after three hours of heavy benchmarking but it has never exceeded 79 C during regular gaming. The card is not overclocked (I don't see the point when it manages 60 fps for all but three of my games) and I'm using the auto fan profile which means the fan has never exceed 60% in the two weeks I've been using the card. I can't hear the card at all even during gaming with the sound muted and it's actually quieter than my two HD 5870 Vapor-X cards I used previously!

Overall a very impressive card with no major issues to report running any of the 40+ games and benchmarks I've tried so far. It's quite refreshing after seven months of using the underwhelming CrossFireX with its poor drivers and disappointing scaling (games often ran slower on two GPUs than one and some had CFX disabled altogether), I can tell you! Definitely glad to see the back of multi-GPU gaming; from now on I'll stick with the fastest single GPU card as I should have done all along.
 
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