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

Take no notice of the Nvidia hater scaremongering, here's anandtech's power results for a 580, when playing a very demanding game like crysis it uses way less watts than a 480 and playing games is what counts.



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jigger said:
Why Nvidia can't see that if Fermi had hammered the HD5970 everyone would have excepted all problems as reasonable trade, even with a 350 TDP.
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The Bottom Line

The HD 5970 delivers faster gaming framerates compared to the GeForce GT 580. However, if you look at the actual usability of those frame the picture is a bit different. The GeForce GTX 580 allows a consistently higher level of the gameplay experience compared to the Radeon HD 5970. We were able to game at higher settings with the GTX 580 than we were with the Radeon HD 5970. The most important factor, beyond framerates, is the visual quality and experience returned by the product. The GeForce GTX 580 allows a more immersive, smoother, and consistent quality of gameplay.
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The GeForce GTX 580 allows a consistently higher level of the gameplay experience compared to the Radeon HD 5970

The 580 has proven here again to be the better gaming card even when put up against a comparably priced Radeon HD 5970 2GB card.
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^^This.
 
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Yes well done, a 480 v 5970, from back in April, very relevant to the review posted by hardocp yesterday with a 580v5970 2GB.

Let me quote that again....

The 580 has proven here again to be the better gaming card even when put up against a comparably priced Radeon HD 5970 2GB card.
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straxusii said:
No offence Raven but I'll take techpowerups opinion of the noise level of a 480 over an individual owner of a 480.

With an individual's opinion there is too much scope for what noise level is acceptable, I know my 5870 is right on the limit for my personal preference as to how loud I want my graphics card and I know the 480 will be significantly louder.
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Yeah " custom fan profile " let it sink in. Review sites leave the fan on auto it then kicks in when the cards doing 80c+ and it's then a losing battle to keep the card cooler and quiet. Loads of fermi owners have commented the card is cooler and quieter when you take the time to do a fan profile.
 
A fan profile is not mandatory, if you don't want stuttery games with dodgy AMD powerplay then a work around is mandatory.


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Nope don't get it - custom profile will only either run the fan slower than the bios settings which will be quieter but allow the card to run hotter or will run it faster which will be louder but keep the card cooler - there is no magic sauce that can make it faster and quieter at the same time? :rolleyes:
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You have no clue, my fan ramps up at 55c it steadies out a 70% 80c, now if I left it on auto the fan starts to kick in at 75c and slowly goes up with temps as fan is only doing 50% at 80c. That's right you don't get it.
 
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Try playing a game that does not use much GPU power, battlefield 2 for example, the clocks will bounce up and down when there is not much GPU intensive action going on, this causes stutter. Nvidia have an option in the CP to set max performance for all games or individual games, clocks stay put.

Nocky24 said:
Do you reckon you'll be upgrading to a 580 or 69xx card Raven?
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Nope, Sticking with Nvidia for the foreseeable future, prefer the CP and power options.
 
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Furmark causes the fan to get noisy, with games it stays perfectly reasonable. Nvidia used a quieter fan profile which works great in combination with a decent case with good airflow. I still prefer to do a custom profile because I have a substantial overclock on.

My Zalman VF3000F is gathering dust currently, the XFI sound card blocks the left side fan and hindering temps badly, I like my quality sound so I'm going to get a PCIE sound card and then install the cooler.
 
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Using two monitors? idle temps are high.


bee said:
hmmm what to do, i take it that 950mhz on hardware canucks is the exception and not the rule :eek: cos if they all clock like that i'm ordering one in 5mins, was planning on keeping my 480 for a while longer, at least until a zalman equipped 580 comes out anyway but seeing that has me thinking
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Looks like the exception going by the overclocks being pushed in here.
 
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