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you are pretty much pushing it there for the PSU might run it now but when the capacitor's start to age something will have to give. the GTX 470 pre factory overclocked I had says you need a 550w minimum PSU.
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you are pretty much pushing it there for the PSU might run it now but when the capacitor's start to age something will have to give. the GTX 470 pre factory overclocked I had says you need a 550w minimum PSU.
Stop being Nvidia fanboy and you will discover many things for yourself. Details on power consumption here: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_580_Lightning/21.html
Few people will find acceptable a video card with power draw of 320 watts (in burning mode) or 250watts in gaming mode. Even though it is quite fast. Many cards are quite fast, but this one has the worst consumer qualities of them all. that makes it the worst card of them all.
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same as beforeI feel great fear in this young padawan! Much to learn he has.
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Its one of the fastest single GPU cards, and performance it beasts the 6950 :/ i dont care about how many pennies in power i use, i care about performance.
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Oh dear... so you say that the 480GTX is bad because of power draw? This is an enthusiast forum, we are talking about powerful graphic cards, this one is offering the performance of a £500 card for a little over £200 and you are whinning about power draw? You have no clue what you are talking about.
Performance for the ££ and general performance the 480Gtx is a great card well ahead of all the competition at the time, and the fact that it is still talked about today as a high end card shows how powerful it really is.
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The 480's are just unbelievably cheap at the moment as they are trying to get rid of all the remaining stock of an EOL product. This makes the 560 look a bad deal at the moment. Once the 480's are sold out, the 560 won't look such a bad deal.
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Nail on the head there! I'm amazed at just how fast my 480 really is! And it only cost me £185! I don't give a rats hairy love spud how much power it uses.
480 is a good deal now as Nvidia dumping old stock after nobody bought the card for it's real price. The price is just half of what it had to be for this card. You are all happy to get such a bargain, but it doesn't make 480 a good card. It's an awful card and it's just good for the money. There's a reason it is so cheap. They sell it for less than it costs them to make one.
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I suspect you either paid £400 for one on release or you bought a 580 which is double the price but only 20% faster
Where'd you get this babble from?
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He's bitter as he didn't wait and pick one up for a bargain £185
I know I am chuffed to bits with my 480. Just can't touch it for price / performance ratio! So it runs a little warm, uses a bit more power and makes a little more noise? Do I really care when I can max any game out for £185? Nope!
I know I am chuffed to bits with my 480. Just can't touch it for price / performance ratio! So it runs a little warm, uses a bit more power and makes a little more noise? Do I really care when I can max any game out for £185? Nope!
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Seriously i havent heard anyone be disappointed with there 480 especially for the price its GREAT!
You really haven't done any research or read anything other people have written have you? I don't know why you're so against it, you don't seem to have any evidence to back up your statement that somebody will actually agree with.
It draws power, so what, big deal, the big matter is how it performs, power draw is not a main concern when it comes to buying graphics cards, performance, then price, then power draw.
Get over yourself and stop posting such ridiculous claims
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I'm getting a 560Ti for free. Should be a nice step up from my 280.
ps, 480's are very nice cards.
ps, 480's are very nice cards.
+1 Clearly a troll, the 480GTX is a good deal, end of story, even OCuk did a deal of the century insipired in this card. It has great performance, one of the best cards out there in terms of performance and to be honest that is the most important thing in a graphics card of this level, the rest are extras.
I didn't say it's not a good deal. It's a good deal now. I'd recommend it to some people.
But those shouting that it's a good card are wrong. It is expensive to make and was meant to be sold for £400, where few wanted to have it for that price, because it was just not good enough. It's good enough for £180 that's true. But what you are getting is unsold stock being dumped at you. Grab it while you can, if you're happy with 250 watts power draw. I'd personally get 6950 and later another one.
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No it doesn't, you're badly misinformed
Total system avgs,
6950 2gb idle- 162
GTX 480 idle - 190
6950 2gb load/furmark- 320
GTX 480 load/furmark- 479
Personally, the 480 doesn't appeal to me. But still, don't go blabbering around non-sense, people look at these threads and decide what to buy based on what people say.
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