I got one for the cheap back in the day (~220€). Eventually two out of the three Gigabyte's "Windforce" fans failed... And there it was, working at 114ºC, played Alan Wake from start to finish, and then I proceeded to RMA it.
DanielC Me too. I feel for all of those in Texas that got hit though. That hurricane did some massive damage. Anyway, thanks for your direction with this vid.
I actually wash my electronics in warm soapy water. Rinse well and let it dry for two days. I also keep 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm thermal pads on hand. Another solid video.
I had the GTX 480, 3 years ago, lend by a friend, Temps where 98°C when playing BF3 and noise, was like a ramping up Jet Engine. I also watched a video with quad SLI GTX480, idle load something around 400Watts IDLE!!!
The HD5870 was the smart choice back then. Less performance, but a rounder package (lower price, still very good performance, lower power consumption, lower noise, etc.). The only way to get a GTX 480 to shut up was by installing a massive aftermarket cooler on it and even those didn't always help too much.
I still have my 480 and this video hit the bulls eye. The thing was powerful with a lot of drawbacks but for as long as I have had this it is a tank. Unfortunately when I mentioned the resilience of the 480 to a PC elitist I was told to throw it out and buy a 1080ti to "future proof" my PC and I simply said "I already did by having the 480 when it came out." somehow he did not understand me when I used his very own argument against him.
Koa Thank you and well said. I think that comment went over his head 🤭 Fermi is very compute heavy architecture and has a strong (polymorph) tessellation engine. Both things that are used quite a bit in gaming today. So is cypress in the hd 5870, but it struggles with tessellation and is limited by its 1 GB of frame buffer and legacy drivers. I just tested the 5970 and it’s a beast, but no driver optimization’s means that new games suffer in Frame times. I’d love to grab a 3GB GTX 580 to jump over the vram hump. It doesn’t hurt that NVIDIA still supports the card to this day with driver updates.
I own 9400GT,560 ti hawk, zotac 750 ti, gtx 980 omega & gtx 980 msi gaming 4g editions. I could share benchmark results if you wanna publish on your channel for comparison videos.
Blue Marble Without testing them on the same PC, numbers won't be 100% accurate if I was to do a comparison, but I may hit you up on a couple of those for a single test like this one ... I'll let you know. I did just pick up a 2GB 560 Ti and a number of older 8 and 9 series cards.
You are really good at presenting gpu video. After i finished the video i thought you had 100k sub because your video presentation are at the top youtubers. Keep putting great content like this and u will have 100k sub in no time. (perfect example is tech deals. i watched way back when him he had 10k sub and i knew he has top presentation videos. Now he has 200k sub)Sorry for my english.
Vieriu Alexandru WOW, Thank you very much. I’m still learning and adjusting my videos accordingly, but I really appreciate it. Still a lot of work to be done. I’m a fan of Tech Deals as well 👍
PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 was my first 'real' dedicated gpu back in the day. Bought a few months before getting married. Should've got something bigger. . .
It never went above 100°C, something my old 8800 GT would do frequently. One way to cool a 480 down is to strap a fan to that grill. Helps dissipating the heat away from the cooler. And how abou the shader clock? Fermi still used a hot clock on it. Should be able to do some foner adjustments to it.
Shader clock is linked to core clock using MSI Afterburner. With a different utility, I could’ve overclocked the two separately, but probably not with the extra trouble. I have the card in my main system now. It’s reached about 93c, and that’s with two 120mm directly below it.
250W TDP is 250W TDP. But if the cooling is bad and you see 90C most of the time, voila, you make a bad heather reputation. My video card Nitro RX 580 is also 250W TDP but it has good cooling system, in a well cooled case, and the temps are always under 55C. But it throws the same amount of heath in the room.
For the temps and noise,the blower style fan on the GTX 480 probably doesn't help it. If you give the card a dual or triple fan design, like whats on most of today's cards, it will probably run a lot cooler and quieter.
Not really. The 570 has the "cut-down" GF110, while the 480 has the GF100 GPU. The 570 is probrably the better card to get (Fermi 2.0) with slightly less performance (and 1.25GB VRAM), but much better power/heat/noise. The GTX 580 (the "full-on" GF110) was the better follow up to the 480. Including performance! A 580 with 3Gb VRAM can still struggle through most games in 2019.
You should carry some thermal pads for the next time you come along a card with burnt pads lol. They aren't too expensive and would make your used cards run a bit better, as well as increase the resale value!
+Ryan Daniels Agreed. I had some fujipoly pads from another job, so I did replace the mosfet pads after I filmed this video. I'll have some grab some 1-1.5mm pads for the vram modules. I've opened up a lot of used cards and this one was the worst thus far.
I was like, was it really that hot? I mean back then i was still using the 9800GTX+ so i have no idea lol .then transitioned to a normal laptop with a gts 250m and a gt430 or something then just recently a 1060.
when this card came out i ended up buying the xfx ati radeon 5970 black edition 2gb , 1.5gb of vram on the 480 wasn't even enough for gaming back then.
TFW you realize the GTX 480 still uses less power than Vega TFW intel doesn't even mention AMD as a competitor in their dGPU announcement. Well at least Nvidia might have competition in the next 5+ years if Intel shows up with better perf/watt products for both gaming markets and server markets.
Not an issue this moment since NVIDIA has done a good job overcoming the issues with drivers, but who knows for how long. Early adopters of the 970 were seeing large frame drops in games that allocated over 3.5GB. Like I said, a lot of the issues have been alleviated via drivers.
its driver updates that reduces the cards performance, i had a friend that had the same card. its NVIDIA's way of telling people they need to go out and buy a new graphics card.
I run a gtx480 the highest on the memory i can do is around 1968mhz before things sometimes go weird, i can get 2048 but benchmarks are ok games will have an nvidia display driver stopped working at some point. Mine is the reference msi n480gtx. basically 700mhz core (they say 705 but its not its 700) and 1848mhz memory for stock settings.
Tbh you should just apply the termal paste to the center and just put the cooling on it, and it will spread out well. (If you manage to put the cooling on well) Maybe it would be an interesting video to compare the different methods: assets.overclock.net.s3.amazonaws.com/1/1f/1fef8044_vbattach167221.jpeg Nice video anyway (I guess, still watching! lol)
Rhoo Yeah Linus did a video on it awhile back. I pulled the heat sinks off of my GTX 470s a ton of times. I did try the typical line and pee methods on the GPU. I didn't notice any difference honestly. The pea method had to be used under the IHS though, or contact wasn't great between the two.
Not much you can do about it really. The GPU is a tiny touch better then the R5 2400G in games I think. Slightly more computation power slightly worse drivers. But with the market as it is there's no sensible upgrade options. At msrp something AMD (compute heavy) would give you a similar longevity at a decent price. But with the miners... I you find a 1050 Ti that's at a reasonable price then that might be worth trying out. The prices of those aren't too horrible atm and that would be an upgrade to your system. Anything above that is just sold at crazy prices... And anything below that just isn't worth it considering what you already have...
I am the only one who ran this card stock at 78 degrees even in summer???i don't know how you (and other) get those temperatures, they are very high. With the same PC my 8800 GTX runs hotter than the GTX 480.
+MicroMacroUniverse Must be lucky 😎 I have seen many variations in temps on the same cards, but that’s pretty low for GTX 480. I wonder what the stock vcore is on your card?
Don't remember, i have that card sitting around in my gpu collection....but i remember i have grabbed it at day one. i was so excited!!!I builded a new PC just for the card. I placed a fan directly behind the board, must have helped ;)
Naah, It's really a 970, you can tell it by it's 100dB Coil Whine :D It's just the fact that Its brand is Zotac, and 1 of its fans is broken, the other one somehow ignores the temperature and runs on full speed, and the last one got some dirt inside its bearing, make a lot of noise. Have no idea how all these happened, I clean my pc every month or two. Well at least it still doesnt overheat :P
Please use rubber gloves to spread the tim, one does not simply use bare fingers. You'll spread the grease and oils of your fingers over the die, wich is absolutely not good.
My GTX480 is crashing when I overclock it to 836 and 2150.. can someone help me? Oh and there is 1 more problem I can't open it to clean it because I can't get out the screws
RangerAtha Your card might not be able to get to these same clocks, as every card overclocks differently. You’ll might want to watch or read some gtx 480 overclocking guides to learn. Also, the thermal paste probably needs to be replaced and the card cleaned. If the screws striped, then you might want to get something to aid with getting them out. What temps are you card sitting at when under sustained load?
+RangerAtha Probably Not it you’re already seeing crashes. Start a bit lower try 800Mhz on the core and 2100 on the memory. It’s always best to test each one separately to rule out the culprit much easier. Maybe try 800Mhz with added voltage. Play some game and see if it’s stable. If it is, then move onto the memory and repeat. Play graphically demanding games btw.
With no OC and very good ventilation of the system, i get 78 degrees on GPU in hot summer days, otherwise it stays around 70 C. Work on your PC ventilation system. Sorry for english :D
Yeah that is exactly my point. I’m wanting to see how much better DX12 works vs. DX11 on a Fermi card. Using a slower CPU will uncover a potentially benefit a bit easier. With a 2600K, there is none.
random E I can, but it won’t make up for the Cache deficit. I actually already have a celeron for this socket, so it wouldn’t be a big deal to swap it out. Not sure when I’ll get around to test it.
