News - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 dissected, torn open for all to see

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Say, that's a big chip.

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The frame is aluminum too? I guess the melting point of plastic was too low :)

That's part of the heatsink, aluminium tends to conduct heat better than plastic.

anyone bored yet? i swear ati dont make this amount of fuss when they release a card

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Originally Posted by Georgy291

anyone bored yet? i swear ati dont make this amount of fuss when they release a card

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nVidia didn't make this fuss either. Read the article to see who is actually making the fuss :p

I love that frame, nicely engineered.

Yeah, it seems like there have been more articles on the GTX 480 than reviews on the entire 58** range. And we've not even got anything valid and tangible yet.

21.6W for the fan. Nice....

It's probably not going to be very quiet then but it does have a 250w TDP. Apparently the card will use a few watts under 300w!!

If they have a card to disect why didn't they do some benchmarks

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Originally Posted by handscombmp

If they have a card to disect why didn't they do some benchmarks

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They did.

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Originally Posted by kalniel

They did.

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They did?

Where about as i would love to see some.

Maybe they only though of that after taking it apart and couldn't remember how it all fitted together! :D

Holy crap, that is one big fat ass GPU package.

Finally someone has broken the silence!!!!

http://vga.it168.com/a2010/0326/865/000000865774.shtml

I don't know whether these are credible, but they certainly are comprehensive.

Looks like it's great for some things, and about par with the GTX 295 for other things.

Think I'll be sticking for the time being.... :( unless someone buys my 2 water cooled gtx 295's off me