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Reference 480 or AIB 480?

kieran_read

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Basically as the title =/

What are people waiting for? I'm tempted to get the reference depending on how reviews place it.

But if I'm honest it looks tacky and cheap and I'd much rather wait for AIB cards.

Does anyone even know how much longer we would have to wait for them?
 
Depends.

Lot of people think this cooler performs better than the 290 ref. But I would wait for the AIB ones. Although I'll be watercooling so that's something to think about.
 
True but if something like this proves to be true

AIB at 1500mhz

Then for someone like me who doesn't OC it looks like it would be a good option.

As always sucks having the only option being to wait and find out.

Depends on how long ill have to wait i guess.
 
Power limitations seem to be foiling overclocking on the reference model. Hopefully the nicer custom versions will fix that. Personally, I'd never buy another card with a blower-style cooler.
 
I'm probably going to wait for custom cards, Sapphire's usually seem to be fairly quiet and their 380 cooler wasn't excessively large. I don't care what it looks like as long as it's quiet and not about a foot long, since I need as much space as I can get in my case.

Looking at those screenshots, I don't see the reference card being quiet at those fan speeds (2741 RPM).
 
karik666 said:
Check these screenshots for 480 ref,max temp got to 88c max clock was 1328.

http://imgur.com/a/3iTkS
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You can see that they pushed the voltage to the absolute max what the card can pull (147W from 150), and the max fan rpm is 58%-2200 so no wonder it ran hot.
I think it would reach that clock on lower voltage, they just set it to the max and be done with it, as it seems this is the factory clock on the XFX model. We don't know if it could do 1328 on lower voltage or clock higher on this voltage, as factory OC cards usually overvoltaged to be on the safe side avoiding crashes.
 
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I don't understand why there are power issues. Can't the card intake a max of 75w + 75w?


At the reported 110w used at stock surely there's OC headroom if power is the issue (excluding the actual silicon being unstable at higher voltages).

Unless ofc that stock figure is bogus.
 
waiting for Sapphire VaporX/Nitro, but i think most AIBs are going to make something special with the 480 from the look of things.
also curious power color seem to be upping their game, they dont just offer basic custom coolers, they seem to be taking more risk, with gaming brand, hybrid, waterblock...
XFX seem to be also going this way hopefully, because we need exclusive AIBs to do more than just cheap coolers.
 
tavtavtav said:
I don't understand why there are power issues. Can't the card intake a max of 75w + 75w?


At the reported 110w used at stock surely there's OC headroom if power is the issue (excluding the actual silicon being unstable at higher voltages).

Unless ofc that stock figure is bogus.
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Its a non-linear thing. outside of the chips operating window (how ever that ends up on any give chip) the power and there for heat, go up exponentially with little speed improvements.
 
I wish they had called it something else... Every time I see a thread like this I think we've gone back in time! :p
 
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