[DEAD] EVGA GTX480 1.5GB video card - $215FS@Tigerdirect

[Rvenger]

Alive again @ Tigerdirect for $220 LOL

 

[Termie]

Alive again @ Tigerdirect for $220 LOL

Keeping this thread current is becoming a full-time job.

 

[Rvenger]

Your sig says you have a 5850 - are you upgrading a different system? Obviously a huge upgrade from built-in graphics.

EDIT: You updated your sig in the past 5 seconds!

Still a nice upgrade from a 5850.

 

[Rvenger]

So will an 850w PSU power 2 of these?

 

[ItsAlive]

Your sig says you have a 5850 - are you upgrading a different system? Obviously a huge upgrade from built-in graphics.

EDIT: You updated your sig in the past 5 seconds!

Yeah I sold the 5850 last year anticipating the black friday sales and just now realized that I hadn't changed my sig....lol.

My xbox has gotten quite the workout over the last few months being as I dont have a decent card to game with haha.

 

[DeadFred]

Im tickled with mine, had it a week now and its doing great. With fan left on auto and measured by EVGA Precision:

Idle temp 47c with fan at 44%

Load* max temp 89c with fan at 70%
*BF3 for over an hour

It idles about the same as my old GTX 285 and gets about 10c hotter under load, noise levels are nearly identical. Sorry I cant comment on power usage, and too be honest that is the least of my concerns.

 

[DeadFred]

So will an 850w PSU power 2 of these?

hehe

I was thinking the same thing, I have a 850W XFX Black Edition.......:hmm:

 

[ItsAlive]

Im tickled with mine, had it a week now and its doing great. With fan left on auto and measured by EVGA Precision:

Idle temp 47c with fan at 44%

Load* max temp 89c with fan at 70%
*BF3 for over an hour

It idles about the same as my old GTX 285 and gets about 10c hotter under load, noise levels are nearly identical. Sorry I cant comment on power usage, and too be honest that is the least of my concerns.

Is that stock settings? Have you tried any overclocking with it?

 

[mleejr]

So will an 850w PSU power 2 of these?

I have this and on BF3 Ultra, everything max, it never stutters. Just one. BF3 is the king now so anything more is wasting money. If you want dual monitors, which I just saw on youtube and am incredibly jealous of, then you may. google 3 monitors BF3. SWEET!
I have a 750W bronze PSU, i7 2600 overclocked, 8GB 1833 DDR3 also, so that helps.

 

[DeadFred]

Is that stock settings? Have you tried any overclocking with it?

Yes, stock settings. I havent tried OC'ing since its already running BF3 at ultra settings smooth as silk.

 

[Roland00Address]

The GTX580 is the overall faster card winning by large margins in a number of tests so that's not true at all.

Your power numbers are way off also, you only start using 300 watts when you overvolt excessively which isn't even necessary to get a decent OC. The GTX 480 is as stated before a sub 250watt card and you don't magically travel to three hundred watts adding 150mhz to stock clocks. People use these forums for good information, don't spread lies.

The GTX 580 is a faster card than a 480 and 7850. I was comparing the 480 vs the 7850 which are pretty similar. (The 480 and 580 are not the same.)

The GTX 480 TDP is 250 watts at stock, which does not count board power (things such as PCB, Ram, etc). So in reality it is closer to 270 watts for power consumption. When AMD releases the TDP number for GPU they are counting the entire card, with Nvidia releases their TDP number for the GPU they are only counting the GPU and not the entire card.

 

[Rvenger]

I have this and on BF3 Ultra, everything max, it never stutters. Just one. BF3 is the king now so anything more is wasting money. If you want dual monitors, which I just saw on youtube and am incredibly jealous of, then you may. google 3 monitors BF3. SWEET!
I have a 750W bronze PSU, i7 2600 overclocked, 8GB 1833 DDR3 also, so that helps.

If you are saying you have 1 gtx480 running on BF3, I agree with you. It runs perfectly smooth just with 1 card on a 1080p resolution with everything set to max. The HD 6950 I had just couldn't even maintain 30fps with 2x MSAA enabled. This GTX 480 can do that and stay well above 30fps with 4x MSAA.

 

[OnePingOnly]

Agreed. BF3 runs so nice on my 480 with everything maxed out.

This is a sizzling deal. Jump on this before it goes OOS again - it will.

 

[Rvenger]

hehe

I was thinking the same thing, I have a 850W XFX Black Edition.......:hmm:

I am really thinking about this. All I need is the PSU. I have 2 GTX 480s (one on the way) and an older one that I bought from a member here. I am worried about the amount of power and heat. Especially since those heatpipes are practically going to be sitting on my power supply and my Xonar DG will be sandwiched in between 2 frying pans.

 

[mleejr]

If you are saying you have 1 gtx480 running on BF3, I agree with you. It runs perfectly smooth just with 1 card on a 1080p resolution with everything set to max. The HD 6950 I had just couldn't even maintain 30fps with 2x MSAA enabled. This GTX 480 can do that and stay well above 30fps with 4x MSAA.

Yes. 1900x1080 ultra with all anti-aliasing at it's max. It looks phenomenal. I had another monitor that was 1900x1200 and it was ultra+ also.
My point was, if this is what you have (and its pretty typical), then I don't see that dude needing 2 480s.

 

[BD231]

a short video GTX 480 SLI OC 800/1600/1848 running Unigine heaven benchmark

Id say idle ~150w
Load 480-500w

Heaven:
8xAA
16xAAF
Tesselation: Extreme
Resolution:1920x1200

heres the link
http://youtu.be/ATjtU6179qc

This is a good example. A lot of the max overall system power draw numbers you see posted on the net are not gaming numbers, they're people stressing their CPU in a stress test app while maxing out the GPU's in a stress app as well.

As you can see real world load numbers are dramatically different while gaming. Probably why my old heavily overclocked gtx 460 sli setup never pulled more than 400 watts while gaming, and sat closer to 370-390 watts even though most reviews on the net pegged those cards as 500 watt total system load parts in sli at stock speeds . Wasted money on a better power supply and everything only to find out I'd never in my right mind be subjecting the computer to the kind of load testing reviewers do.

 

[ArchAngel777]

This is a good example. A lot of the max overall system power draw numbers you see posted on the net are not gaming numbers, they're people stressing their CPU in a stress test app while maxing out the GPU's in a stress app as well.

As you can see real world load numbers are dramatically different while gaming. Probably why my old heavily overclocked gtx 460 sli setup never pulled more than 400 watts while gaming, and sat closer to 370-390 watts even though most reviews on the net pegged those cards as 500 watt total system load parts in sli at stock speeds . Wasted money on a better power supply and everything only to find out I'd never in my right mind be subjecting the computer to the kind of load testing reviewers do.

Totally agree with this. When I had a power sucking Core i7 4.2Ghz + 460 GTX 1GB SLI, I could only get it to pull around 400 watts from the wall. Which means I am actually pulling around 350ish. With that said, I am sure it SPIKES in the 500's, but most PSU's should be able to handle a short spike load. Many of the quality power supplies can actually supply 20% more wattage than they are rated for. Of course, you probably would not want to sustaun that wattage on them, but it is good to know that if you do go over that 'constant wattage' limit, you should be ok.

 

[ItsAlive]

I got my card last night, and changed TIM to AC MX-2. My stock VID was 1.063 so I bumped clocks to 824/2010 and got it stable with an undervolt of 1.050. I upped the fan speed to about 5% higher than stock auto fan past 70c and temps dont go above 80c now in games. I dont know why everyone says the fan is loud, I dont even hear over my case fans at idle, and at load its not much louder at all and definately not annoying or obtrusive.

One thing I did notice was how easy it was to install this card. The drivers just plain "worked" on first install first boot. It recognized my screen as 1080p @ 70hz and thats something that none of my former ATI cards (2x 5850s, 2x 6870s, 3x 5830s, 1x 5770, and A6-3650) could do properly. Im very happy I took the plunge.

 

[Rvenger]

They are still available at both places.. I wonder if they are going to cut the price again...

 

[Rvenger]

Dead @ newegg. Still alive at TD.

I am sure newegg will put it on special again soon.

 

[Rvenger]

Edit: NVM

 

[lupi]

i've got 1 480 that's been around awhile and was hoping to get something better and let the 480 upgrade the 280 that's in my secondary. at the snail's pace the new cards are coming and lowering prices on the other top of the line cards starting to think about just grabbing a 2nd 480 to run in each and going sli in one once I do get a new version.

 

[Rvenger]

dead

 

[Termie]

OP updated - the GTX480 for $210 is back from the dead, available with coupon code EVGA48417 from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130759

 

[neocpp]

Hey guys, this is now $200 FS from Tigerdirect with code PYS59296. Expires 4/25