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

Lovely Jubbly :D:cool:

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James J said:
I've enjoyed reading the past few pages of peoples benchmarks with the 470 and 480. Its nice to see that the fan noise isnt "too bad" as well but I have to say the 93C temps worry me abit. I was thinking of selling my 5870 and going to a 480 but I think I'll wait for now and see if theres a refresh after summer!
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For me the fan noise is fine, a bit louder than the 280 under full load, quite noticeable in a quiet room. The shuttle PC in here with a 5770 when under load is MUCH noisier although I'm not sure whether thats the Shuttle's CPU fan or the 5770. The temperature doesn't really bother me at all.

However, I upgraded from a 280 and the difference in speed is very noticeable. Coming from a 5870, other than the Heaven Benchmark and PhysX, you wouldn't see a great deal from the "upgrade" imo other than numbers telling you it's a little quicker.

My understanding is that whilst the 480 isn't much louder than a 280 it IS much louder than a 5870.

Tesselation is very nice but only a couple? of games currently use it and in a very minor way. It is however allegedly pretty easy to implement so I would expect to see games using it say 6 months from now.

PhysX support is very nice and is one reason why I went with the 480. However it doesn't currently impact gameplay much and really you only miss something taken away (which would have been my situation if I'd gone ATi.

There will almost certainly be a 512 shader version of the Fermi, I would guess it is at least six months away and probably after the ATi 6X release.
 
DragonRR said:
For me the fan noise is fine, a bit louder than the 280 under full load, quite noticeable in a quiet room. The shuttle PC in here with a 5770 when under load is MUCH noisier although I'm not sure whether thats the Shuttle's CPU fan or the 5770. The temperature doesn't really bother me at all.

However, I upgraded from a 280 and the difference in speed is very noticeable. Coming from a 5870, other than the Heaven Benchmark and PhysX, you wouldn't see a great deal from the "upgrade" imo other than numbers telling you it's a little quicker.

My understanding is that whilst the 480 isn't much louder than a 280 it IS much louder than a 5870.

Tesselation is very nice but only a couple? of games currently use it and in a very minor way. It is however allegedly pretty easy to implement so I would expect to see games using it say 6 months from now.

PhysX support is very nice and is one reason why I went with the 480. However it doesn't currently impact gameplay much and really you only miss something taken away (which would have been my situation if I'd gone ATi.

There will almost certainly be a 512 shader version of the Fermi, I would guess it is at least six months away and probably after the ATi 6X release.
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Thanks that puts the thoughts at rest really. I was really suprised how quiet my 5870 actually was when I got it and the 480 caught my eye due to the CUDA abilities. We've been told at uni that our biology department is getting some new gene coding and protein visualisation programs and I saw CUDA all over it so its another tick on the long list of "needs" on the graphics card lol.

I'll keep what ive got for now and see what happens in Q3/4 this year.

Thanks again for your personal experiences, far better than reviews
 
Im still a little concerned by my Batman AA results (below) wityh physx and 3DV getting a lower minimum was not expected and only 2fps on average more? dodgy drivers? I can't belive the gts250 is getting maxed out...

GTX280, high physx min:32 max:81 avg:53 reached 81c
GTX480, high physx min:39 max:137 avg:86 reached 90c

GTX280, GTS 250 physx min:50 max:134 avg:93
GTX480, GTS 250 physx min:47 max:164 avg:99 - suprised by this one! GTS250 the bottleneck?

GTX280, GTS 250 physx, 3DV min:26 max:60 avg:46 (reached 90c! then fan went really high)
GTX480, GTS 250 physx, 3DV min:23 max:60 avg:48 90c, probably a bottleneck somewhere (250 again?)
 
Mr Fujisawa said:
Im still a little concerned by my Batman AA results (below) wityh physx and 3DV getting a lower minimum was not expected and only 2fps on average more? dodgy drivers? I can't belive the gts250 is getting maxed out...
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If you still have the 280, put it in as the Physx card and do the same tests to see if there is a difference ?
 
coupe69 said:
Scythe Ninja rev.b :)

EDIT: For the people wondering what the flanfx cards were:

Yes they were in fact POVs.
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I'm the same boat as you Coupe, have a lovely POV GTX480 sat here. I was talking for a bit of the day with the lady, tried a wangle a discount but they were having none of it, can't blame a guy for trying though! :D

I've not installed it yet, trying to finish off abuild for a family friend before getting going with the 480 otherwise I'll never finish it! lol!

Gonna place a higher cfm fan as my intake and might reposition my spot cool fan to blow directly on the exposed heatsink, see if it makes any difference!

Does anyone know if RivaTuner is supporting these cards?
 
Been doing a bit more tweaking and OCing, this is with the voltage at 1038mV

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Heaven score.

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core 'only' hit 92c at it's highest and fan hit 89% at highest point.

If i put the core to 810, heaven crashes. With the voltage at 1050mV this would be ok i think, but during my tests the gpu hit 99c in Kombuster with that combo, so i think i'll leave that till i have better cooling.

Going by the temp during heaven i could probably do an 810mhz or more run without it getting too hot, but that it'd be a bit risky during gaming i think.

EDIT: turns out i need 1050mV to keep 800mhz totally stable, will just watch out for temps!
 
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Slightly puzzled.

When I run either EVGA Precision 1.9.3 or MSI Afterburner Beta 4 my voltage by default displays 1025mv. If I hit reset it wants to make it 1000mv. On another forum a member mentioned that his default was 1037mv but most are saying 1000mv. Another post mentions "over volting to 1025mv".

I tried running the card at 1000mv at stock clocks. It crashes!

Is the voltage setting between cards inconsistent?

Can everyone please post their default voltage?
 
yeah GTX470 card has arrived and Installed and I really do like it ! Noise is no longer a concern that I had when reading some of these reveiws online. Idel temps are around 70 degrees when gaming it highest was 89 degress, With the Fan ramping upto 60 percent. Not bad, Overally Impressed
 
I pre-ordered the Asus 480 GTX from Overclockers, haven't got it yet :( the ETA keeps being put back - am so jealous of you guys who have yours

Also ordered the 3D Vision kit to go with it

Can't wait to get my hands on this card
 
DragonRR said:
Slightly puzzled.

When I run either EVGA Precision 1.9.3 or MSI Afterburner Beta 4 my voltage by default displays 1025mv. If I hit reset it wants to make it 1000mv. On another forum a member mentioned that his default was 1037mv but most are saying 1000mv. Another post mentions "over volting to 1025mv".

I tried running the card at 1000mv at stock clocks. It crashes!

Is the voltage setting between cards inconsistent?

Can everyone please post their default voltage?
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I think mine was 1025 default but if i hit reset it picks 1000
 
Mr Fujisawa said:
I think mine was 1025 default but if i hit reset it picks 1000
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I have been posting on Guru3D forums about this. It seems that each card might have a different "default" voltage!

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3541769&posted=1#post3541769

One positive out of this is a comment by Cowie:

"yes the pny card reports 1.05(and does clock a tad faster)then the galaxy card 1.00 3d"

Presumably this means that a card requiring a higher default voltage than standard does not always mean that it won't overclock as well.. It appears that in Cowie's case it overclocks more?!
 
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