My project is coming along nicely. A few "bumps in the road," but nothing a dremel couldn't fix. I should be finished tonight or tomorrow, and then it will rain pics. Also, i should be prepping the DFI board w/ pd 915 in it for DICE tonight or tomorrow.

Is it just me or are these 480's not too impressive?  Considering Sham's massive cpu score and paltry LN2 cooled gpu score, I'm not impressed.    I was hoping one 480 would bench better than a GTX 295.  I don't think it would.  One of my 295's got a 29,116 the other night with a 980x, and my cpu score was 10,000 less than sham's.  My GPU score was 400+ points higher.  I'm on H2o, he's on LN2??  Doesn't make sense, does it?

not sure what to make of them just yet...

they say it's because of the voltage...

Halo_003

 


although this is looking very promising.



ok...one thing...are these going to make it quad sli or only tri sli?????
or am i missing something..

Ive had the chance to play with a 480... this card was made with WC or better in mind..
I was hitting 100c+++ on furmark.. it was insane.
The power drain on this sucker is killer too... imo the 5870 card is better price/performance wise.
also the 5870 might just have win on it with the 2gb version coming out.

For now... Crazy numbers Q.. your smoking those cards.......

johnksss 
ok...one thing...are these going to make it quad sli or only tri sli?????
or am i missing something..

Based on HWBot its gonna be quad sli. If you go to gtx480, it has options for 1x 2x 3x and 4x cards.

On paper the GTX 480 just really be a great bit better than the GTX 295. Same amount of shaders, not having to deal with SLI scaling, and GDDR5 memory.

Im not sure what to think of Shamino's score. The GPU score looks awfully high compared to the one already submitted on the bot with LN2. Given the clocks are almost 200mhz off, but the scaling looks too high. Im not saying its fake, but just odd. I also believe that he has hard modded the card, Monstru (IIRC thats his name) only got 900mhz core with LN2 because he couldnt push more volts with it, while Shamino is saying he got 1150mhz out of it.

The 5870 will probably keep the Vantage crown, while the GTX 480 takes the 03\05\06 crowns.

yeah...i dont think so... 

taken from nvidia's own site.  
Note: The below specifications represent this GPU as incorporated into NVIDIA's reference graphics card design. Graphics card specifications may vary by Add-in-card manufacturer. Please refer to the Add-in-card manufacturers' website for actual shipping specifications.
GPU Engine Specs:
CUDA Cores 480 Graphics Clock (MHz) 700 MHz Processor Clock (MHz) 1401 MHz Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 42  Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1848  Standard Memory Config 1536 MB GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 384-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 177.4 Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready* 2-way/3-Way NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready*** NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology** HD NVIDIA PhysX™-ready NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology Microsoft DirectX 11 OpenGL 3.2  Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 x 16  Certified for Windows 7 Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600  Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536  Standard Display Connectors Mini HDMI
Two Dual Link DVI  Multi Monitor HDCP HDMI Audio Input for HDMI Internal Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.376 inches (111 mm)  Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)  Width Dual-slot  Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 105  C Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 250  W Minimum Recommended System Power (W) 600  W Supplementary Power Connectors 6-pin & 8-pin    *- A GeForce GTX 480 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 480 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different). SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
**- Supported video software is required to experience certain features. Visit www.nvidia.com for more details.
***- NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround requires NVIDIA release 256 driver, two or more graphics cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration, 3D Vision glasses and three matching 3D Vision-Ready displays. See www.nvidia.com/surround for more information. 
 

Evga has said that the GTX 480 will support Quad SLI.