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

[Bito]

Asus GTX480 (5) in stock elsewhere, so they are trickling in....
Now, where's that Rampage III ???

 

[Greebo]

Asus GTX480 (5) in stock elsewhere, so they are trickling in....
Now, where's that Rampage III ???

Tricling is the key though. I wonder a week after release how many actual gtx480 has hit the uk shores. It seems the semi-accurate infor of only 8000 cards worldwide seems true to me.

Diudn't Nvidia say a few weeks ago they had thousands ready to ship?

 

[AWPC]

Today bought a terrific Asus GTX480 @ retail in a shop (could even have bought 2 for SLI but its a pointless waste of money when 1 will last for a long while to come ) The Asus packaging is very sturdy & well presented it also has several layers & everything in the box is inside its own little box. Packaging is 10/10 from me Its definately a very hefty card to hold & only a few mms longer than the EVGA GTX260-216 its replacing. Weight wise its about twice as heavy No time to install until the weekend (when I may buy a 980X to go with it ) but have taken some box pics obviously Looking forward to putting all those stupid fanboy too hot, too noisy urban legends to rest as I have a very high end case with plenty of ventilation

 

[Bito]

^^ Only 4 left now then.

 

[Razor Time]

Nice to finally see someone with an Asus GTX 480. AWPC please keep us informed on the volt modding if you have the time.

 

[stulid]

updated the first post with links for 197.55 drivers.

 

[AWPC]

Nice to finally see someone with an Asus GTX 480. AWPC please keep us informed on the volt modding if you have the time.

Will do but first I want to see how it performs @ stock then I will dismantle & put some better thermal paste on before pushing further

 

[up2nogooduk]

Will do but first I want to see how it performs @ stock then I will dismantle & put some better thermal paste on before pushing further

Any chance you could put a pic up on how you apply the paste on the card please what paste you using ?

 

[Razor Time]

Will do but first I want to see how it performs @ stock then I will dismantle & put some better thermal paste on before pushing further

Thats fine mate, have fun. Looking forward to reading your thought on the card.

 

[AWPC]

Any chance you could put a pic up on how you apply the paste on the card please what paste you using ?

Try this excellent guide someone else did on their GTX480 (I'm using it to do mine but until I see what its like on stock!). Its done on an EVGA 480 but the hardware appears to be identical & the bios on the first batch of 480's are all the same apparently (Shame EVGA are taking so long to get theirs into UK as Germany has had them for 2 weeks now apparently!)

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=310095

 

[mrix]

re:

I guess a word of warning and something to definitely think about is that you could void your warranty if you remove the cooler / paste etc ???
I guess some brands will be ok but others not, on any expensive card it worth a thought
Cheers
mrix

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

Try this excellent guide someone else did on their GTX480 (I'm using it to do mine but until I see what its like on stock!). Its done on an EVGA 480 but the hardware appears to be identical & the bios on the first batch of 480's are all the same apparently (Shame EVGA are taking so long to get theirs into UK as Germany has had them for 2 weeks now apparently!)

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=310095

Great guide. Ordered some MX-3 and gonna give this a go!

 

[Razor Time]

MX-3 is a bitch to spread, its almost impossible. I use Arctic Céramique instead on gpus and I always get good temps and it spreads real easy. I do use MX-3 on my cpu however.

 

[Arcane]

I'm waiting for someone to put up some results with the Prolimatech MK-13 on the 470/480GTX.

pcgameshardware put up these pics of it on a 480 but no numbers. I'm thinking a 470 SLI setup with these could be fun to play with.

 

[Stanners]

Has anyone gone from a 5850 to a 470 ?, just windered how it performs against the 5850.

 

[DragonRR]

MX-3 is a bitch to spread, its almost impossible. I use Arctic Céramique instead on gpus and I always get good temps and it spreads real easy. I do use MX-3 on my cpu however.

Having used MX-3 a few times I would recommend the finger bag method (assuming you don't do that already) (new/clean small plastic bag stretched over finger). You usually get a thinner layer of TIMM too.

 

[Razor Time]

Having used MX-3 a few times I would recommend the finger bag method (assuming you don't do that already) (new/clean small plastic bag stretched over finger). You usually get a thinner layer of TIMM too.

I tired that mate and it all stuck to the cling film and none would stick to the chip. I gave up with the gpu and just put on AC.

I use the grain of rice method on my cpu which worked really well and I saw a nice drop in temps. I really do rate MX-3, its just a pig to spread.

 

[Arcane]

Has anyone gone from a 5850 to a 470 ?, just windered how it performs against the 5850.

I'm considering swapping, though only if I can get a good price for the 5850s and the 470s come down to the 250 mark.

 

[jorzeh]

If 470s were same price as 5850s i would buy two of them tomoz and run em.

 

[jigger]

If 470s were same price as 5850s i would buy two of them tomoz and run em.

As opposed to buying them and keeping them in a display cabinet

Seriously though, I still think I would go for the 5850 and clock it to a 5870. If the 470 was the same price and run at similar temps then it would be a decent card.