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Agreed....if you want an ITX GPU then the 1060 is the one at the moment.
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SAPPHIRE RX 480 NITRO NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (WORLD FIRST) !!!
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Agreed....if you want an ITX GPU then the 1060 is the one at the moment.
Depending on your chassis, you might look into doing something like this chap did for his 480 Nitro+ OC Card.
His card was averaging at 83 degrees, and throttling simply playing DOOM until he used some tape and Special Noctua cardboard.
http://imgur.com/a/brOX9
His card was averaging at 83 degrees, and throttling simply playing DOOM until he used some tape and Special Noctua cardboard.
http://imgur.com/a/brOX9
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Cancelled my pre-order for Nitro+ OC. Hope it bumps others up the queue.
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Build quality of the mini 1060 is fine, the card doesn't have the same kind of cooling requirements, evga are even going a superclocked mini which looks much the same and the Zotac seems to be boosting over 1900mhz out the box for me with some overclocking headroom.
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So... for those happy to wait, have we been doing any Steam shopping in preparation? I certainly have
Hmmm. No not really. I tend to only play slightly older games (so cheap in bundles/steam sales!) and mad max that I am currently playing runs at high on my very old 580 gtx... To be honest I've only got this card for star citizen (as the 580 gtx grinds due to only having 1.5Gb of VRAM) and to help with future purchases... It'll be nice to enable vsync on a few games and migrate to a freesync monitor in time though.
Wouldn't be so sure haha. WoW is not performing very well on my RX 480 at all. Seems to be a driver issue, or something wrong with WoW.
Was getting better performance in wow on my 660 TI.
I did re-consider just for a moment as the mini Zotac 1060 would go great in my ITX and I found a US retailer with them for $259USD, but then I watched this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECTGKqWpszk
What I took from the video; the RX 480 can play all older games at extremely respectable frame rates so who cares if the GTX 1060 is 12% faster it doesn't really add to the enjoyment. Then when it comes to new games presumably being built on DX12 or Vulcan the AMD is up to 50fps faster - that is significant lead.
Just my 2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECTGKqWpszk
What I took from the video; the RX 480 can play all older games at extremely respectable frame rates so who cares if the GTX 1060 is 12% faster it doesn't really add to the enjoyment. Then when it comes to new games presumably being built on DX12 or Vulcan the AMD is up to 50fps faster - that is significant lead.
Just my 2c
WoW recently got a massive graphics update for all models and textures, even ones dating back to vanilla. They also increased the render and view distance a lot.
Old Ultra Settings are now settings 7 out 10 on the new preset slider.
So that, and some driver issue could be causing your low FPS.
Then again even my SLI 980Ti's would roll over and die in 10 fps regions in large raids and 40vs40 man pvp.
They may go out but I doubt at Sat delivery. So Best case would be monday.
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I did re-consider just for a moment as the mini Zotac 1060 would go great in my ITX and I found a US retailer with them for $259USD, but then I watched this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECTGKqWpszk
What I took from the video; the RX 480 can play all older games at extremely respectable frame rates so who cares if the GTX 1060 is 12% faster it doesn't really add to the enjoyment. Then when it comes to new games presumably being built on DX12 or Vulcan the AMD is up to 50fps faster - that is significant lead.
Just my 2c
Get the slower 480 now, as when its games get here, it'll be smashing the 1060 to bloody bits, even the 1070/80/TX etc... owners are going to be swapping to AMDs cards when their games start appearing, as they'll all be getting trounced.
Get the slower 480 now, as when its games get here, it'll be smashing the 1060 to bloody bits, even the 1070/80/TX etc... owners are going to be swapping to AMDs cards when their games start appearing, as they'll all be getting trounced.
I love your optimism
Getting a 1060 is tempting, however without SLI then an upgrade would be a different card costing even more. This way I can Crossfire another RX480 later and increase performance.
Plus I have a 144hz Freesync monitor so would need to go to 1070/80 to really see the difference.
Plus I have a 144hz Freesync monitor so would need to go to 1070/80 to really see the difference.
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I'm in exactly the same boat, 144hz Freesync monitor and option to use Crossfire being big deciding factors. No way I can afford anything more than this really and I want the card to last me a good 2-3 years so an RX480, despite the delays, seems to be the best choice. Though the choice of this particular model is mostly for aesthetics; though i'm glad i picked it too as the MSI or ASUS cards i'd have chosen instead are considerably more expensive
Very interesting, I have a dual front fan setup like that, I'll try this tonight. Looks promising, I've also noticed a lot of hot air coming out the end of the card.
Same. Tbh I am quite sad to see what AMD has come to over the years. I've had AMD cards since the 9800 pro, many years ago. I just can't justify it anymore.
My last AMD card was a 390X, that kicked out so much heat and produced so much noise that I had to sell it, even though it's performance was really great.
I considered a RX480, but it would have been a downgrade performance wise from my 390X, so I felt my only option was a 1070.
I'm very keen to see what AMD has planned in Vega, perhaps they have further improved the perf/watt and perhaps it will match the 1080, fingers crossed it does, I'll order the sapphire nitro version of such a card in a heartbeat.
In the meantime I'll enjoy the performance, low noise and low heat of my 1070, though I won't be that happy until I have a AMD card back in my rig
I might try something like this also. Another thing I want to try is blocking off the Vents they put through the PCB/Backplate.
It may not work, but doing the sophisticated hand-test, the air coming through is basically cold as its literally blown through a gap completely skipping the heatsink.
My thoughts are if they were blocked, it would force the air through the heatsink fins and thus improve cooling. Couple this with partition to prevent that hot air going back through the card we may see some drastic drops in temperature.
I feel the vents are a gimmick they created to add a bullet point on the box without really thinking it through or testing it properly.
Another idea i had, though I don't know if it would be worth it was to line the side of the stock heatsink (where the gap for the vents is) with some small copper BGA/RAM heatsinks, so the air going through would actually be doing something. Only problem is getting them stuck on there would likely mean voided warranty and I don't really know if their contact with a single heatsink fin would be effective at propagating any heat from the unit as a whole.
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