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Used GTX480, great sweet spot card? Anyone selling?

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  • 31-10-2011 2:59pm
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    Matt Simis
    Registered Users Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭


    Annoyingly one of my SLI'd GTX460 1GB cards died (popping noise and smell of burning) 2days ago, so I have been looking at replacement options. Logical choice would be a 560/560 Ti. I plan on running Surround monitors (3x displays) again so the 2GB versions would be considerably better. However 560 cards are kinda pricey for what is basically a jumped up 460 (my 460s were factory overclocked to 800mhz which isnt far off a 560 stock).

    However it seems to me a £160 / $200 (both OCUK and Aria were selling refurbs for this price 3mths ago!) a used GTX480 would be faster and comes with 1.5GB ram which is just about enough for the big surround Res. Obviously its noisey and eats power and I would need 2 of them for surround, but I have those areas covered (watercooling and 1kw PSU). A new 560 1Gb is slighty more expensive and slower to boot. A 2GB 560 would be a great card but rare and expensive.

    GTX480 vs 560Ti (guess non-TI is like 10% slower).
    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/309?vs=330&i=187.188.190.191.192.193.194.195.196.197.199.200.201.202.203.204.205.206.207.208.209.210.211.212.213.214.215.216.217.218.219.220.221.222.224.225.226.227.228.229.230.231.232.233.234.235.238

    Any thoughts or anyone looking to move from 480s to something else that might sell on their old cards?


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