GTX 480: 209$ @ New Egg

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[mleejr]

I luvs my 480. Best card for the money out there IMO.

 

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It's so tempting to get this at 209$

 

[Don Karnage]

Still too much. Would you really buy this over a 7850?

 

[lavaheadache]

Still too much. Would you really buy this over a 7850?

I would buy it as a ded. physx card just for kicks

 

[Joseph F]

Damn, how I would love to replace my CF 4850s with this.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Still too much. Would you really buy this over a 7850?

If you are asking me, then yes. First of all the 7850 is more expensive. Secondly I'd be running SLI with a second.

 

[jlin101]

I would buy it as a ded. physx card just for kicks

that's a lot of power requirement/noise/heat for a physx card (it'd be way overkill). You can get a Galaxy GTX 560 Ti for $175 AC/AR, with BF3 included, at NE right now.

 

[mleejr]

Depends on what you want. I have it, I kick BF3 1900x1200 Ultra with no discernible problems. I love my 480 card.
Third 'fastest' single slot card out there relatively speaking.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
Pretty cheap for that ranking IMO although if you don't have BF3 like jlin101 said, the 560TI, as you can see from the card, is just one slot below the 480.

 

[Holler]

Depends on what you want. I have it, I kick BF3 1900x1200 Ultra with no discernible problems. I love my 480 card.
Third 'fastest' single slot card out there relatively speaking.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
Pretty cheap for that ranking IMO although if you don't have BF3 like jlin101 said, the 560TI, as you can see from the card, is just one slot below the 480.

yea, the whole GTX 500 line should have never existed they are all merely iterations of the GTX 480/470... the 680 should have been the 580. pure marketing from Nvidia. been rocking my tri sli 480 hydrocoppers for over 2 years now... they are still CPU limited in many instances on my i7 950 at 4.2... I'll probably hold on to these for atleast a couple of generations with CPU upgrade in the middle at some point...

 

[hyrule4927]

Still too much. Would you really buy this over a 7850?

If I had the cash for either of them right now, heck yes I would. Learned the hard way that Folding@Home with ATI just isn't worth it.

 

[postmortemIA]

If I had the cash for either of them right now, heck yes I would. Learned the hard way that Folding@Home with ATI just isn't worth it.

gotta help all these utility companies make some money.
according to Anandtech Bench GPU12, even 470 takes almost 100W more under load than 7850.

 

[bryanW1995]

Good deal, but the power usage is pretty high compared to 7850 these days.

edit: However, it's also 10% + faster than 7850 according to techpowerup and Anandtech Bench. Note that I had to use gtx 570 instead of gtx 480 in AT bench, but the nvidia card's lead is commanding regardless.