MSI Twin Frozr GTX 480 for $299?

[dpk33]

Sounds like a good deal. How will this perform against a Radeon 6950 and GTX 570, which I can get for around the same price?

 

[Lonyo]

About the same as the GTX570 and slightly better than the 6950 while using more power than both (combined even! j/k, but nearly).

 

[Wag]

Also consider buying a 2GB 6950 for $250 and unlock it.

 

[dpk33]

Also consider buying a 2GB 6950 for $250 and unlock it.

No, the cheapest 6950 2GB i can get is around $300

 

[ghost recon88]

You can get used GTX 480s for $240. For $300 why not go GTX 570?

 

[bryanW1995]

Twin frozr edition is nice, but for the same price I'd go gtx 570 stock instead. gtx 570 and gtx 480 are literally within 1% of each other performance-wise, but gtx 570 is much cooler/less power hungry/etc etc. So you don't need the twin frozr gtx 570 to get similar/better thermals, plus you'll save on the power budget and heat output from the card into your room. The only way that I would even consider any gtx 480 over gtx 570 would be if you were running an extremely high resolution with sli config, something like 3 x 1920x1200 or something crazy like that. And even then I'd want to see the benchmarks to see what the actual difference was from losing the 250 mb of vram because in an sli environment the power/heat/noise problems of the gtx 480 are only magnified.

Where do you live that the 6950 2gb is $300?

 

[RussianSensation]

If you are not that concerned with the power consumption, once overclocking is taken into the account, the 480 should win. However, a single 480 consumes almost as much power at load as an HD6990. Since before the 480 was the single fastest GPU, it was a tradeoff you had to make. Now with the 570, you get similar performance and lower noise and power consumption.

Alternatively, you can pick up a cheap GTX560 Ti for $200 and overclock it to 950+mhz. that would get you to GTX570/480 in performance for $100 less. I'd probably go that route and buy a faster GTX600 series card or HD7000 series in the fall if you need more power.

 

[Wag]

No, the cheapest 6950 2GB i can get is around $300

I'm not sure where you live, but Newegg is selling 2GB 6950s for ~$240 AR.

 

[Grooveriding]

If you're gaming at 1920x1200 and below just get a 570.

The 480 is faster with overclocking, but unless you're gaming at 2560x1600 is not worth picking up over the less power hungry 570.

 

[CFP]

Pay 100 extra and get a 580.

 

[3DVagabond]

Newegg seems to be having some hot prices on the 580 and 560ti. Both are better overall cards, IMO.

 

[alan1476]

There is nothing wrong with the MSI Twin Frozr 11 N480GTX, believe me, I have 3 of them. They run cool and I literally blow away my friends with thew 570GTX. This card was 500.00USD when it first came out and now you cant even find them new for any price. You can get a used one for about 300.00 but who wants someone else card, not me.

 

[DominionSeraph]

There is nothing wrong with the MSI Twin Frozr 11 N480GTX, believe me, I have 3 of them. They run cool and I literally blow away my friends with thew 570GTX.

With the fans needed to cool a GTX 480, "literally blow away" is quite believable.

 

[blackened23]

Also consider buying a 2GB 6950 for $250 and unlock it.

Pretty sure they (amd) fixed the shader unlock awhile ago.

 

[blackened23]

Sounds like a good deal. How will this perform against a Radeon 6950 and GTX 570, which I can get for around the same price?

dont do it, card is way too hot and loud...get a gtx 570 instead

 

[spinejam]

asus gtx480:


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Asus 6970 DCII: @ 970core / 1500mem


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msi GTX570 tfii:

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[Elfear]

Snip

Moral of the story, get a GTX 570 or 480 if you want to play 3DMark 11. ()

 

[Capt Caveman]

Pay 100 extra and get a 580.

I paid $36 more to get my 580. :awe:

 

[Termie]

Uh, necrothread, anyone?

Strangely, I did find a Twin Frozer GTX480 available at one retailer for $300: http://www.eagledirectusa.com/servlet/the-699/MSI-N480GTX-Twin-Frozr/Detail

Not sure if I'd trust them, though.

 

[Arkadrel]

Sounds like a good deal. How will this perform against a Radeon 6950 and GTX 570, which I can get for around the same price?

Tiny bit faster than the 6950, abit slower than the 570.
At higher resolutions, the 6950 will probably pull ahead.
Power wise, it ll draw alot more energy than either.


The thing is... why spend 299$ for a MSI Twin Frozr 480, thats power hungry.
When you can get a 6950 for ~220$ (80$ cheaper HUGE price differnce), and have it perform better at higher resolutions, use less power.


You can almost save 1/3rd the price, by just getting a ref. design 6950.
Bang for buck, 299$ for a 480 isnt a great buy.
Also 7xxx series are soon to be out, not a good time to spend that much on a gpu.