Hexus review up - GTX480

[Lonbjerg]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21651

Enjoy

 

[1h4x4s3x]

I guess the server is dying right now.

 

[Madcatatlas]

site down indeed

 

[Lonbjerg]

I guess the server is dying right now.

Yup, first pages loaded fine...but i guess the entire internet is hammering them now *LOL*

 

[Apocalypse23]

whoever read the whole story, is the 480 a good overclocker?

I was in the midst of the review when the site went down....

let me in on the story ppl...

 

[crazylegs]

GTX480 claims its 1st victim...

 

[1h4x4s3x]

That was sort of a
'Any publicity is good publicity'
stunt.

 

[Madcatatlas]

edit:
Why does NDA work like this?
in norway, the NDA is off at midnight gmt+1

 

[1h4x4s3x]

Posted on another board, anyone got more?

 

[Daedalus685]

So why exactly are some reviews coming out now and others arent showing anything before 00:00?

Well, notice that all of the reviews that went up so far have been pulled or their sites DoSd

 

[formulav8]

Looks like they're servers got hammered like crazy!

 

[Lonbjerg]

back up again

 

[Madcatatlas]

Im allowed to do this right? :

Conclusion:
How does it play out for the gamer right now? Radeon HD 5970 remains the world's fastest graphics card, GeForce GTX 480 becomes the world's fastest single-GPU card, and Radeon HD 5870 is still a good bet at sub-£300.

Bottom line: NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 could have easily been better, perhaps should have been considering the time of arrival, but we feel that, underscored and handicapped by a paradigm shift in GPU thinking, it retains enough features and visceral ooh la la to be worthy of a £400 price-tag, if not £450.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21651&page=17
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If not allowed, feel free to delete

 

[formulav8]

I am able to see the full review now. To those wanting ocing results I posted his results below...

"We increased the fan-speed to 80 per cent (<4,000rpm) and then used EVGA's Precision tool to force up the clocks. From the default 700MHz/1,400MHz/3,698MHz clockings for core, shader and memory, respectively, we hit 800MHz/1,600MHz/ 4,224MHz, representing a 14 per cent increase over stock. System-wide power-draw increases from a peak 475W to 525W.

Looking a the 2,560x1,600 results, Far Cry 2 (8x AA) performance rose from 54.91fps to 61.3fps and DiRT 2 DX11 from 50.69fps to 56.78fps. "


Jason

 

[1h4x4s3x]

Not working, got some more though.

 

[Daedalus685]

Hexus is back up.. they pulled the review though..

 

[sandorski]

"Sorry, but the URL you followed to get to this item is invalid."

Funny thing, they have the Review with Pic on the Homepage, but it gives you the above message.

 

[heat901]

Doesnt look that good sigh looks like 5XXX prices arent going down

 

[SunnyD]

Bottom line: NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 could have easily been better, perhaps should have been considering the time of arrival, but we feel that, underscored and handicapped by a paradigm shift in GPU thinking, it retains enough features and visceral ooh la la to be worthy of a £400 price-tag, if not £450.

Visceral ooh la la? Sounds to me like someone got paid to push that review.

 

[formulav8]

I had almost the whole review in cache but now i'm having a hard time getting to it :/

 

[1h4x4s3x]

Nice, the whole review:

 

[1h4x4s3x]

 

[1h4x4s3x]

 

[GTaudiophile]

From what I can tell, the 5870 gives it a run for its money (in some benches).

 

[GTaudiophile]

LOL @ Loaded Power Consumption!

GTX480: 475
5970: 459
5870: 320