**TWO INCREDIBLE GTX 580 DEALS!!**

[Buckster]

are those specs for the MSI 580 correct - I didn't think it had a Vapour chamber does it ?

 

[varkanoid]

I was expecting the 580's to be around £200 like the 480's were.

Must be some reason they are holding their price, like Gibbo said people are still buying them at that price.

I was fortunate to pick mine up for £185 ages ago.

 

[fordypaul]

I recently purchased a GTX480 for £155 brand new, Agreed these 580s are a step above mine but for the money, they are no deal, more a joke aimed at the uninformed unless as said, they are for the SLi crew!

I looked at 480s from OCUK and a 670 windforce 3 before i purchased, sadly the prices of these on this site are not really competitive and as such lost my custom on this occation.

 

[555BUK]

The amount that's being reported and that amount it actually needs is completely different. A lot of that 1.6Gb is buffered textures that aren't being used.

All textures are buffered, and that's why graphics cards have VRAM. The more textures that are buffered, the less chance you will experience slowdowns. If 1.5GB VRAM is fully written, new textures cannot be loaded until old textures are flashed. This takes time and can cause slowdowns or stutter. It is far quicket to write new textures to unallocated/free VRAM.

In short, all VRAM being allocated = bad.

 

[buchtis]

£300 for a 580? I had to check the date there because I thought someone bumped a 2 year old thread.

Honestly don't know how you'll manage to shift these as such prices. The only people I can see buying these is people who have no computer knowledge.

 

[leoncao]

Sli 580 now.... What psu do you have?