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Why buy a 480 instead of 460's in SLI

jonneymendoza

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Has titled why? 460 SLI beats the 480, runs cooler and quieter plsu cost a bit cheaper so why? whats the catch? why bother with a 480?

also: will my 600w psu powering a i7 clocked at 3.3ghz (920) 3gb ram,, 4hdd and 6 case fans be enough for either setups?
 
Not all games scale well in SLI so at worst you could be left at a single 460's performance in a game, saying that I personaly would go 460 SLI at 1920x1200 or below rez, even at stock it is faster than a 480 so overclocked they will rock even more, they run a lot cooler and I would say not much more power used over a 480 as well.

The GeForce GTX 460 is impressive from every angle. In addition to the accolades we heaped upon it in our first evaluation, we can now say that SLI performance is fantastic as well. Two GeForce GTX 460 1GB video cards with SLI enabled are significantly faster than one single GeForce GTX 480 and absolutely superior to one single GeForce GTX 470 in performance in real world gaming. No benchmarks! REAL GAMING turned in some amazing performance increases. The results were quite astonishing to us; we did not expect GTX 460 SLI to be that much faster when the canned benchmarks were put aside. It seems that NVIDIA’s SLI is extremely efficient and both GPUs are being utilized very well to improve performance.
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http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/07/12/nvidia_geforce_gtx_460_sli_performance_followup/
 
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Lack of additional performance? Once you've got 2 GTX460s you can't go any further (only 2-way SLI supported). If you've got a GTX480 you can add another. It's much like the 'why get a 5870 when two 5770s beat it for less argument'.
 
Scaling on certain games would be why I always prefer single GPU solutions. Some games simply don't support multi GPUs, and if that happened to be my favourite game of the moment then I would be pretty annoyed if I had gone for SLi/Crossfire.
 
jigger said:
Scaling.
Heat.
Noise.
Power.
Double failure rate.

What PSU is it ?
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this psu:

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600w seasonic
 
because when u overclock the 480 (some people are clocking them at 950 + core )they will leave the 460 sli for dust also sli only lol no future upgrade path for the 460's

go 470's u be happier and u can tri sli at a later date
 
I think if you want very good performance for overclocking but don't fancy the 480gtx price the £259.99 470gtx overclocked could be the ticket depends if not the preoverclocked 460 in sli seems better if you can't afford the extra £120 but when your spending £400 anyways why's the extra for a lot more oc speed.
 
^ yes, iirc just above 480 clocks will give the 470 equal performance,

although some other people have said ~800MHz for 480 performance, although that should be easy providing your case is fairly well ventilated (I run my pc with the side off since I don't mind the noise and when gaming use headphones) and some people get 875MHz on air
 
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