***THE OFFICIAL GTX480/470 END USER REVIEW THREAD***

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This is for all the lucky owners of the above cards.

Hopefully we can keep the "should have got a 5870" or "what a waste of money LOL" comments to a minimum.

Owners of these new nvidia cards should post as much detail and information as possible about their setups.

All pictures are gratefully received, boxes, un-packaging, system setups.

Here are links to four commonly used test programs.

Furmark.

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

3Dmark.

www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/

Unigine.

http://unigine.com

GPU-Z.

www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

This is a link to FRAPS, used to show, record framerates.

www.fraps.com/download.php

These are the latest official nvidia drivers released on 9/4/10.

32bit.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7-winvista-32bit-258.96-whql-driver-uk.html

64bit.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-whql-driver-uk.html

 

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Added the furmark.

Thanks both orangey and jigger.

 

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come on you slackers.

get some game benches up!

you got all the links on page one! so crack on!

 

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Just Cause 2 doesn't use PhysX.

true.

but it is using CUDA, and optimised for nvidia cards.

 

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updated the first post with links for 197.55 drivers.

 

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Trubritars got a new toy.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=GB#/watch?client=mv-google&v=yjBuKrGETqo

 

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you meant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBuKrGETqo

Looks awesome, expect good oc results.

Cheers.

I posted that other link from my phone, explains the weirdness.

He gets very excited when he says "quad sli" lol

 

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Cheers, I'm starting to warm to the 480 after extensive youtube viewing of 480 performance, the heat and power usage is not so good but it does perform very well when you look at the genuine performance figures like from youtube 480 owners who detail settings and actually show the performance. I can see why peps would opt for one, it's not all doom and gloom as some make it out.

Someone let RavenXXX2 know his accounts been hacked!

 

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front page driver links updated with the latest out today

 

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whats really ironic is, even tho I started this thread way back when, I have only just ordered the Zotac 470 on this week special offer, today with free delivery.

 

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My Zotac GTX470 came yesterday, so thought I would share some pics and benchmarks.

The Box.

The contents.

The card itself.

In the pc.

The system specs are,

AMD PhenomII X4 955BE at stock speeds.
4GB Corsair DDR3 GT at stock speeds.
MSI AMD 790GX chipset motherboard.
EVGA 8800GT 512MB PhysX card.
Antec New Truepower 650w psu.
Samsung F3 500GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
Creative X-fi Xtreme music.
Coolermaster ATCS840 case.

CPU-Z and GPU-z

so using the latest Nvidia drivers I have run some benchmarks.

3Dmark Vantage.

Unigine.

Stone Giant, at the same settings used in the benchmark thread.