GTX 480 - ordered

[dancook]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-222-AS

Just ordered this in the UK, seems like a good price.

Hoping it improves perfomance of my five wow clients, and will allow me to run in DX11 mode - which should improve performance.

CPU/MB/RAM will have to come later.

[Zzyzxx71]

Next paycheck I'm upgrading to a Eyefinity 6 card - haven't decided which, my bookmarks have me eyeballing cards in the $250 range. I'm not going to use the grouped eyefinity functionality, just 3 seperate monitors (I have 1 monitor that runs at 2048x1156, the rest at 1680x1080).

I've been having odd problems since upgrading to the 2600k, think it's a driver issue though - still hunting it down.

[MiRai]

I had to look for your other thread to see what you previously had in your system. You mentioned you think it is a 4970, but I
cannot find a 4970 on AMD's site (http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4000-series.aspx). Whichever GPU you have, the 480 GTX will be an upgrade, however, they suck a lot of
wattage and they run hot (http://www.anandtech.com/show/4135/nvidias-geforce-gtx-560-ti-upsetting-the-250-market/16).

[dancook]

Might have been a 4870 I have currently not 4970 :)

My house doesn't have much insulation.. ok none, and gets quite cold! So I hope this card warms me up a bit :)

The GTX480 arrived this morning

http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=968&page=3

This is what you get.

[Bollwerk]

I'm curious why you chose a 480 over a 570. Not a big deal though, I guess.

[Umbaalo]

Just ordered a gtx 580 today during lunch at work. Hope I didn't concern any coworkers when I was cackling madly once I received the "order has been shipped" email notification.

[dancook]

I'm curious why you chose a 480 over a 570. Not a big deal though, I guess.

Well the 570 looks to be around ~ £300 (£100 more) , plus I used

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

[MiRai]

PassMark is a synthetic benchmark, not a real world benchmark. That graph shows a number... but what exactly does that
number mean? What CPU was in the system that recorded that PassMark score? What RAM? Liquid or air cooled? Here (http://media.bestofmicro.com/W/C/272028/original/3DMark%20Vantage%20Overall.png) is
a synthetic benchmark that shows the 570 GTX is better than the 480 GTX.

Read this (http://www.techwarelabs.com/articles/editorials/real-vs-synthetic/), it's is an older article that might shine some light on the subject of benchmarks.

I'm not, by any means, saying the 480 GTX is a bad card, because it was top notch for its time. However, the card was
quickly replaced 6 months after its release because it had a handful of issues which were resolved in the 5xx generation.
The 480's are going for super cheap because retailers are just getting rid of their old stock. I paid more for my 460 GTX
a few weeks ago and the 480 GTX is a more powerful card.

The moral of the story is:

Don't use synthetic benchmarks to purchase computer hardware unless you're specifically dealing with those benchmarks
for a reason.

[dancook]

Thanks i'll take it into account - though on a price point, I wouldn't have purchased the 570 - as I wasn't going to spend that much anyway.

And then I realised I reaaaallllllyyyyy want a new mb/cpu/ram still... money :(