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Nice review Tarinder, a shame most etailers are charging more than the RRP already. Hopefully just early adopter price.
Naming this card the 580 is such a cynical move by NVIDIA. This isn't a next-gen card, it's just a tweak on the 480. This should have been called the 490. But I guess the same could be said of the 6870 from AMD. Oh well. Yawn. Next please.
After being delayed The GTX480 must be Nvidia's most short lived high-end card.
I'm not sure that I would want anything in my PC which can reach almost 100C during a game....
how long do we have to wait for the 69xx release?
I'll take two, please.
Couldn't agree more. This naming convention is nothing more than "Bigger is better" marketing, and leaves the average consumer clueless if they don't follow the technology on a daily basis. This eeks of GTX 8800/9800/260 marketing, but I admit with "tweaking" under the hood. Looking at the PCB close-ups, I'd guess that GTX 480 water blocks wont fit it, so I for one will be sticking with my dual GTX 480's with EK blocks.Originally Posted by Ivor Crayon
Any chance of some folding benchmarks?
Which one(s) would you like?
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
The reviews and their comparison tables are the reason I first came to Hexus. Nice work.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
I'm not sure 88C (the gaming temperature reading) counts as almost 100CAlthough the 94C it hits during furmark is a shocking 10C hotter than my 8800GTX, and it certainly doesn't count as cool. Sounds like you could probably tweak the fan profile up a little though and still have a quiet card that's cooler than a GTX480...
heh - in my Blue Peter ducting adventures I just saw 92C on my CF 5870s
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
One thing I do like about this card is that all the memory chips are on one side. That will make water-blocks more effective. To this end, it's about time some partners started to sell cheaper options without the stock cooler. This would allow enthusiasts to add there own water-blocks without having to bin the stock cooler. Every time I remove the stock cooler to add a water-block to a modern graphics card, I get a sick feeling that I paid hard cash for that useless lump of metal!
I’m also a little concerned about the new power management system. This is now current-dependent and not temperature-dependent and will likely kick-in despite advanced water-cooling.
Hmmm.. Well I still look at 2 x 460 as a better bet from nVidia - downside being twice the waterblocks for me and that i'd have to 'hack' my PC to get SLI to work (thanks nVidia!) - upside being cheaper, less heat and just as quick.
So.. seeing as nothing actually waxes my system i'm going to wait for the new AMD card and see what that's like before I jump. Grr.
System 001: Asus Z68 Deluxe, 2600k i7, EK Supreme HF - Full Copper CPU Block, GTX 670 FTW 2GB x 2 SLI, EK 680 GPU Blocks/EK Bridge, 8GIG Corsair Vengence DDR3 RAM CL9 @ 1600mhz, Corsair HX1000, Dell U2412M, Logitech 5.1, Samsung F3 1TB x 2 (RAID 0), Samsung 830 128GB x 2 (RAID 0) SSD (System), Antec 1200 case, Thermochill 120.4 rad, Vario Pump, Windows 7 x64, Cyberpower 1500VA UPS[main]
System 002: A8 3850 APU, ASUS uATX FM1A75 MB, 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3, Corsair psu, OCZ Agility 3, 1TB F3, Dell 2001FP 20" LCD, £7's worth of 5.1 speakers (they rock) Windows 7 x64[wife/server]
System 003: AOpen 1557 GLSLaptop, ATI 9600 64mb, 1.5 GIG of DDR2700 memory, 60gig fujitsu HD 8mb cache, Intel Wireless and it's great! Windows 7 32bit [main lappy]
System 004: ASUS MB, Intel Core 2, 4 GIG Corsair, Silverstone HTPC case, stock cooler, GT220 1gbDDR3, Samsung F3 1TB, Kingston 40gb SSD, MCE Remote, Samsung 40" LCD (87BDX) via HDMI Windows 7 (32) [media centre]
System 005: Asus UL50AT Intel Core 2 Duo,4GB, Intel Gen 2 80GB SSD, Win 8 x64 [no justification]
System 006: HP Proliant N40L Microserver, 4x2TB drives, fan mod, Pico PSU mod, Win7 x86 [file server]
System 007: Dell Optiplex 9010, i7, 8gb, 128gb Samsung 830, 1TB WD HDD, ATI something, Windows 8 x64 RTM [work]
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Well, it's still a toaster. But what surprises me is how well it does in the bang for buck table compared to other high end cards.
Firstly I'd like to add my thumbs up for a top review! Excellent in structure and layout.
Regarding the additional information....
I think that Bit-Tech did it quite eloquently when they covered which was the best card for folding, when they used the metrics:
Points per day
Points per watt
Points per £
Likewise, some sort of indication about the heat likely to be achieved under 24/7 folding.
Also, what are EK etc doing about companion products such as blocks for watercooling them? I assume that these are these all reference designs pesently.
Please keep up the excellent work!
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