THE OFFICIAL GTX480/470 END USER REVIEW THREAD

ToxicTBag · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:03

I must at least keep 1....have never been a particularly loyal gpu buyer, its allways been whatever i could afford at the time and as i crunch for seti am hoping this will give me the power boost i need - and am itching to play bioshock 2 in 3d

RavenXXX2 · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:04

Might be worth trying the new MSI afterburner beta, it allows a small increase in volts on the 480, not enough to damage anything but maybe enough to top 800 core.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=319794

RavenXXX2 · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:06

Mr Fujisawa said:
Just tried 800 core, fan still on auto, but it crashed out at the dragon when it hit 94c.

What I've found happen during my testing is, regardless of clock, when it hits 93/94c the fan kicks in and brings the temp down to 90c. It's definitely loud when it does this, but it should be fine when gaming.

You want to set fan speed instead of letting it ramp all the way to 90c+, try 70% and your temps should stay well away from 90c.

ToxicTBag said:
I must at least keep 1....have never been a particularly loyal gpu buyer, its allways been whatever i could afford at the time and as i crunch for seti am hoping this will give me the power boost i need - and am itching to play bioshock 2 in 3d

Yeah you will get your power boost just fine.

Bio 2 will be mince meat lol

fiskov · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:07

Scrap the GTA 4 results from earlier, i reinstalled the nVidia drivers and it has completely changed.

Avg: in game is 55fps, Everything maxed 16xAF/4xAA
Lowest i managed to get was 43fps.

Ballard of Gay Tony out tomorrow, wahoooo

no_1_dave · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:09

BC2 is juddery for me now
Was smooth on my 275 but on my 470 even in DX10, same settings as before it isnt as smooth. Must be a driver issue

RavenXXX2 · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:12

Mmmm, the 275 was using just DX10 in BC2, now you have DX11 card, you get all the eye candy so.....could be drivers, or a performance hit with DX11.

wolvers · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:20

Liking the look of those OC results. Keep em coming.

Mr Fujisawa · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:24

will do some more tomorrow, going to bed now

no_1_dave · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:33

RavenXXX2 said:
Mmmm, the 275 was using just DX10 in BC2, now you have DX11 card, you get all the eye candy so.....could be drivers, or a performance hit with DX11.

I've tried DX11, DX10 & DX9.
No extra eye candy, same settings, everything.
Its now stuttering even with fps over 100

bilko100 · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:41

have you tried changing the render ahead setting from 3 to 2 in nvidia control panel for BC2?

no_1_dave · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:48

Tried it.
Going to uninstall drivers & run driver sweeper, then re-install.

RobotGirl · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:15

The game could be runing on dx10 ,try changing the default in the game settings file to dx11...

Phoenixdancer · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:23

Why tesserlation on normal for all these V2 benches??? EXTREME or NOT AT ALL

no_1_dave · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:30

RobotGirl said:
The game could be runing on dx10 ,try changing the default in the game settings file to dx11...

Tried all of them

Even all settings on LOW is stutters

DragonRR · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:40

Mr Fujisawa said:
Just tried 800 core, fan still on auto, but it crashed out at the dragon when it hit 94c.

What I've found happen during my testing is, regardless of clock, when it hits 93/94c the fan kicks in and brings the temp down to 90c. It's definitely loud when it does this, but it should be fine when gaming.

I've tried to hit your 770/2000. Managed one run with furmark, second run locked entire computer up with lovely flashy artifacts until screen went black.

I have managed a seemingly stable 750/1900 but I think I'll just stick with stock. The crashing has scared me off especially after I had to run a system repair just to get my computer to boot past chkdsk "press any key 1 second" bloody Win7 bug.

I may have a poor for overclocking card (which seems to be the norm for me) or maybe I have some airflow issues. Strange really none of my graphic cards over the years have overclocked very well where as all of my CPUs have OC'd fine.

3t3P · 16 Apr 2010 at 01:10

wow seems to be munching through 3D vision

it really does seem powerful compared to a GTX280 when you look at crysis benchies...

Rapido! · 16 Apr 2010 at 08:14

DragonRR said:
Just Cause 2 bench:

Everthing set to max except 2x AA, 16xAF, VSync OFF, 1920x1200

The Dark Tower:
39.02 Average FPS
Desert Sunrise:
51.06 Average FPS
Concrete Jungle:
30.83 Average FPS

I'm caning 'Cause 2 myself right now (best knockabout sandbox I've ever played, btw) and I've gotta say, those are absolutely terrible scores; running *Crossfire 5870s with an i7 [email protected] completely destroys those results.

1080p, everything maxed with 4xAA, I get 119 fps on the Dark Tower bench, 139 on Desert Sunrise, and it's a perfect v-synced 60 in-game. Yeah, Crossfire and a better cpu etc. but the thing is, Crossfire is only scaling at around 30% at the moment. The *relevant point is that a single 5870 also demolishes those results by nearly 2:1.

Is the Cuda water effect really that much of a framechewer on a card that's supposed to be a monster for that kind of GPGPU thing? Kinda need to see what your frames are like without it on, tbh.

Mr Fujisawa · 16 Apr 2010 at 08:20

3t3P said:
wow seems to be munching through 3D vision

it really does seem powerful compared to a GTX280 when you look at crysis benchies...

I woulda like a bit more for 3DV but those were just quick benches, didn't look for optimal playable settings (eg 2xAA is normally enough for 3DV)

Mr Fujisawa · 16 Apr 2010 at 08:24

DragonRR said:
I've tried to hit your 770/2000. Managed one run with furmark, second run locked entire computer up with lovely flashy artifacts until screen went black.

I have managed a seemingly stable 750/1900 but I think I'll just stick with stock. The crashing has scared me off especially after I had to run a system repair just to get my computer to boot past chkdsk "press any key 1 second" bloody Win7 bug.

I may have a poor for overclocking card (which seems to be the norm for me) or maybe I have some airflow issues. Strange really none of my graphic cards over the years have overclocked very well where as all of my CPUs have OC'd fine.

750 should be fine. I do have extra fans blowing on the card though, but it'd still not ideal cause of the gts 250 next to it. Gonna look at replacing it with a single slot 9800 gt that can go in a further away slot

Marine-RX179 · 16 Apr 2010 at 08:50

Rapido! said:
I'm caning 'Cause 2 myself right now (best knockabout sandbox I've ever played, btw) and I've gotta say, those are absolutely terrible scores; running *Crossfire 5870s with an i7 [email protected] completely destroys those results.

1080p, everything maxed with 4xAA, I get 119 fps on the Dark Tower bench, 139 on Desert Sunrise, and it's a perfect v-synced 60 in-game. Yeah, Crossfire and a better cpu etc. but the thing is, Crossfire is only scaling at around 30% at the moment. The *relevant point is that a single 5870 also demolishes those results by nearly 2:1.

lol no wonder people are ignoring you...do you even know what you are talking about?
First he is on 1920x1200, you are on 1920x1080. Secondly...crossfire is only scaling at 30%...wtf? Look at the following:

Test kit: 3.2GHz Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition CPU, 6GB Corsair 1,600Mhz DDR3
Drivers: Nvidia Forceware 197.17 BETA WHQL, ATI Catalyst 10.3 WHQL
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DX 11, Win7 64-bit)

1,920x1,200, 4xAA, 16xAF
HD5970: min 56fps, average 91fps
GTX480: min 44fps, average 66fps
HD5870: min 32fps, average 58fps

(source: Custom PC Issue 081 June 2010, p11)

You can see that the 5970 (which is a pair of downclocked 5870 in crossfire on a single card) is around 50-80% faster than a 5870.

Crossfire is curtainly not 'only scaling at 30%'...otherwise people would be insane to pay £300 for another 5870 to crossfire.

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

THE OFFICIAL GTX480/470 END USER REVIEW THREAD