Shame that the power consumption is out of spec - anyone remember nvidia making a big deal about the 480 power draw sometimes slightly overstepping the limits?
That 480 has been silly cheap for a while now, but seems to have ended up with an abysmal cooler
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...c-4gb/?page=12
100W is nothing for heating a room, and you'd need to be gaming for 2400 hours to burn through £40 worth of extra electricity (going by the current price difference between the cheapest 580 and 1060 on scan right now, and assuming 16p/KWhr - an average from SSE's site). That's 100 days non-stop, with no food or sleep
Why would you compare two full size cards against the weird, mini 1060 card? Seems like an odd choice, especially as given it's size it'll be hotter and noisier than all of the normal size cards.
@Xlucine: Power matters in small machines where that extra ~100w will translate to more noise and heat from the card and the PSU.
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