GTX 480 - ordered

[dancook]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=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. Whichever GPU you have, the 480 GTX will be an upgrade, however, they suck a lot of
wattage and they run hot.

[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 is
a synthetic benchmark that shows the 570 GTX is better than the 480 GTX.

Read this, 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