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| 1122852 | 2010-07-27 23:10:00 | Guy at work here brougt one of these with a single 295 to play games and run autocad and solidworks at home Made from Playtech and overclocked i7 to 3.8 Have to admit he had the advantage on grid...... :envy: |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1122853 | 2010-07-27 23:17:00 | Guy at work here brougt one of these with a single 295 to play games and run autocad and solidworks at home Made from Playtech and overclocked i7 to 3.8 Have to admit he had the advantage on grid...... :envy: GRID? seriously? I can run that @5670x1080 with 4xAA and max detail on my single 5870! |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1122854 | 2010-07-28 00:09:00 | They actually use grid as a benchmarking program 5870....nice, oh to have ONE of those |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1122855 | 2010-07-28 00:55:00 | i was running a GTX 480 and an HD 5870 in my averagely-ventilated mid tower case...no heat "problems" (i.e. it didn't crash, but yeah they run pretty darn hot). I'm not fussy about noise so didn't really pay much attention...but nothing out of the ordinary there either from memory. |
pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1122856 | 2010-07-28 05:41:00 | They actually use grid as a benchmarking program 5870....nice, oh to have ONE of those Who is "they"? no tech website I visit uses GRID as a benchmark tool, it's too old to stress a modern video card, even my 4870 can run it at 1920x1080 with 8AA at max detail... |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1122857 | 2010-07-28 07:05:00 | www.overclock.net Open bench, not in an enclosed case. I wouldn't have four GTX 480s in any enclosed case anyway, too pretty to not be in the open! Cooling has got to be terrible on that, I think water cooling would be needed. Makes me wonder why they don't make a new form factor for boards which support 4 video cards so there is actually a gap between the cards... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1122858 | 2010-07-28 07:44:00 | Makes me wonder why they don't make a new form factor for boards which support 4 video cards so there is actually a gap between the cards... Because enthusiast-grade cards are a small part in the entire body of profit ATI and nVidia makes. I believe around 10 - 20% of their entire profits come from enthusiast cards, the rest from the mainstream and industrial cards like the FireGL from ATI and Quadro from nVidia. Dual card users (SLI and Crossfire) are an even smaller part of their customer base, and those who use three or even four cards in SLI or Crossfire are too rare for anyone to start bothering with a new form factor. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1122859 | 2010-07-28 22:08:00 | i was running a GTX 480 and an HD 5870 in my averagely-ventilated mid tower case...no heat "problems" (i.e. it didn't crash, but yeah they run pretty darn hot). Can you tell me the purpose of such a combination please, as I am struggling to understand how that would work....I guess if you hacked PhyX, you could use the 480 for that? I really like the look of the GTX460's, would be a perfect upgrade for me! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1122860 | 2010-07-28 23:06:00 | I know I've said this before on PF1, but why are manufacturers still persisting with jamming massive, hot, power-thirsty cards inside a case? Surely motherboard producers could design an external PCIe bus, and nVidia/ATI could just build their cards into an external housing with it's own PSU so you didn't need some 800w monster in your PC. nVidia are already halfway there with this kind of thing? (www.nvidia.com) Not being a gamer, this is my layman's take on things, so apologies if I've missed something bleedin' obvious. :D |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1122861 | 2010-07-28 23:24:00 | I have one of these cards. It's super quiet unless under heavy load (which is difficult to do). Runs all my games super smooth. Generally runs at around 47 degrees. Under a super burn mode test with furmark, it maxes out at 102 degrees. I can't make it hotter unless I overclock it. It's fan has never needed to run over 70%. 100% sounds like it's freaking out though, but I'm sure it's pretty secure. Edit: oh, and my other fans aren't plugged in. It cools itself fine. If you ever find one running, run furmark on it with super burn mode. You'll see for yourself, it can cool itself fine. Even overclocked slightly it cools itself fine. Well designed card is well designed. |
Cellux (15145) | ||
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