Was the GTX480 that Bad?

Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the GTX480 (I know again) just this time it's not so much about the bechmarks, although there are plenty of them included, no this time i wanted to try and explain why Fermi was considered a bit of a disaster, late to the party, eating through power, among architectural issues. So join me as i try and condense that down to a small history lesson on how this card became a bit of a joke.
Games tested
Bannerlord
BeamNG
CSGO
DOOM
GTA V
Halo MCC
Minecraft (With RT Shaders)
PUBG
SOTTR
3D Mark (oh and Crysis sort of)
Music:
Metal Gear Solid III - Sea Breeze
Simcity 2013 - Population 1 (Night Mix)
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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: GTX480 ASUS
RAM: 32GB DDR4
OS: Windows 10
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[@2298839082508923859]

GTX 480 + FX 9590 = Fancy heater with integrated PC

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

Why stop at one GTX 480? Don't forget to add a 10 (or 40) gigabit network card while you're at it. Then stick it all into a Walmart Overpowered case.

[@hardwarechronicles9178]

or dua radeon hd4890's ..

[@jm036]

@Technology Around The House *Tačno

[@sophustranquillitastv4468]

I think a pair of R9 290X reference card in Crossfire isn't far from GTX 480 in SLI.

[@ballfondler-k1o]

RX 580 is Also a great contender

[@jorno1994]

Nvidia Thermi, The way it's meant to be grilled.

[@Imblitzyboi]

Just get a patty gtx 480 power supply CPU ram mother board metal piece = cooked burger

[@Web720]

Nvidia centrist confirmed.

[@buji07]

300th like

[@Johny40Se7en]

😅😆

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

The ultimate way to make toast using Nvidia bread

[@outtheredude]

Imagine it, 4-way SLI, with these GTX 480s, may well result in your computer turning into a molten slag heap.

[@PongWithBreakout]

Americans probably won't be able to power that thing from one phase, given 110 V mains voltage.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

@@PongWithBreakout A standard 15 amp breaker operating at the single device safety limit of 80% yields 1440 watts. It seems like 4 of these plus the rest of the system could go right up to the line and maybe a bit over. A 20 amp breaker would be plenty. That limit is 1920 watts, or effectively a 2000 watt power supply. That said, I am unaware of power supplies that output greater than 1600 watts on 120 volts, even if the branding indicates higher.

[@ProdBy.JayLo3]

Outtheredude I thought this was how toasters were made

[@luminumlx2604]

with dual FX 9590

[@digitalronin7495]

I have three of them. Bought them a while back with the intention of trying 3 way sli, just for fun and to check out the thermals. Haven't gotten around to trying it yet, but this video has reminded me and I think it's time to dig them out

[@petey8155]

My dad built a rig with 3 of these in SLI We didn't need to use the heater that winter...

[@exquisitedark]

same

[@valiantdiesel1332]

Ahaha I had a dual-SLI of these back in the day, felt like they could heat the whole house. I almost miss how quirky and expensive they were to run.

[@Johny40Se7en]

Awesome. Must have been Tropical Winter! Because a single GTX 470 kept me warm two Winters 😆😝

[@KokoroKatsura]

a n i m e n i m e

[@voast4602]

Lol! He needs a 1000+ Watt PSU lol

[@KomradeMikhail]

Find a Quadro Plex 7000... It's like two GTX 480's slapped together on one single card.

[@DrearierSpider1]

Pair it with an FX 9590 and the worst Chinese power supply you can find.

[@victim2077]

@@DrearierSpider1 And use it in wooden shed with shady electrical installation

[@awesomecomputers7076]

@@DrearierSpider1 🧨💥🔥🧯🚒

[@DrearierSpider1]

@Murkje I legitimately wanna see a KZbinr make this setup and see if they can make it catch fire.

[@filenotfound__3871]

tdp of 600W?!?!?

[@162seconds]

"Other than a few collectors who just want them to sit in a box for some reason" I feel attacked

[@boingkster]

I've got a GTX570 sitting next to my actual card from that time, a GT520. Yeha baby, 29 whole Watts of Thermi POWAAAAH!

[@xxmlgguyxx1167]

If you have a new GPU, there may be software to use it as your GPU 2... So it can be used

[@retropcscotland4645]

7:48 actual footage of BB driving to pick up another £1 graphics card.

[@WilliamRobertHixon]

I used to have a GT430 a few years back, and despite being such a low end card, it could someone overclock to an absurd degree. I got a core overclock of a full 1 GHz.

[@TheRealWALLABI]

I also had a GT430 back in the day, I overclocked it so much I actually broke it... I had bought it at the IT department of a regular supermarket. I returned it claiming it wasn't "compatible with my power supply" (what a load of bs lmao), they actually believed me and refunded me. I'm pretty sure they re-shelved it. I feel sorry for whoever bought it next xD

[@pointzero4450]

@@TheRealWALLABI yo wtf

[@TheRealWALLABI]

@@pointzero4450 I know that was really a dick move from me, I should have owned up to my fuck-up when I broke that card, but idk, I was young and stupid back then xD

[@ShintaFreeman]

The GT430 gave me hours of fun without sacrificing my money. I played BioShock infinite and Tomb Raider (The first from Crystal Dinamics) in a time where almost nobody of my friends could play that games. I felt like a PC Superstar

[@siyzerix]

Damn, pascal overclocks real well too. Got my laptop 1050 to 2ghz.

[@MrCaerbannog]

I remember how heavily mocked Fermi was at the time. Still ended up buying a GTX470, seeing how Adobe had just added in CUDA support to Premiere, and they were still a couple of years away from adding OpenCL support.

[@anusmcgee4150]

I have really fond memories of my GTX 460. Was the first GPU I ever bought with my own money; quite an upgrade from the hand-me-down 9400 GT I was using at the time

[@Tc4ify]

@@anusmcgee4150 Yeah 460 was the first okay Fermi card, 470 and 480 with stock coolers were really bad though (they were okay with say Arctic Accelero)

[@TheGAVstudio]

So, when the 500 series released, how did you feel?

[@MrCaerbannog]

@@TheGAVstudio Not all that bothered really, as it wasn't a *huge* leap in performance. The gains were more in the efficiency department, and the GTX470 wasn't nearly as ridiculously power-hungry as the GTX480.

[@colchronic]

I had 2 in SLI back in the day. It made a cold room blisteringly hot, could jam max settings in crysis 2

[@fruitloopz311]

That's a good idea if you live in a cold country and dont wanna pay for AC lll

[@RuruFIN]

I had a R9 290 Crossfire and that wasn't that much different..

[@thewallduck2022]

Add a fx 9590 and your golden

[@randomguydoes2901]

@@RuruFIN had triple 7970s and oh boy

[@jackstoner9644]

You can also have a cooking channel with that thing.

[@jamesmaxwell6703]

Play cooking simulator and cook on the card......

[@Imblitzyboi]

How to cook a pie w a GTX 480 jk

[@krazycharlie]

Cooking Builds Official :).

[@thewallduck2022]

Don't forget to get a fx 9590 for maximum heat

[@deathtrap1976]

Vorwerk's Thermomix Simulator Pro 2020.

[@SigmaMaleRyanGosling]

GTX 480, 280W: I'm a thermal disaster RTX 3090 eating 400 watts without OC: hold my beer

[@carnivorebear6582]

The coolers have come a very long way since 2010. 280+W on a video card back then was totally unheard of.

[@McPlot28]

I had one of these and loved it. I never thought that it got too hot. But then again, I had my CPU using a liquid cooling system that had a radiator on the outside of the case. So the only thing in the case generating a noticeable amount of heat was the GTX 480. It never overheated though and I never had any issues with thermal throttling. I also had a 600 watt PSU at the time so the power drawl was nothing that caused any problems with the rest of the system. My brother tried running it on his system with a 350watt PSU and that ended badly

[@moonsengineeringadventures623]

i just had a program to manually ramp up the fan, and while it was hot and waste of power it ran fine for me for years. I really did love that card !

[@TheTardis157]

I wish Kepler aged as well as Fermi did. It was vastly more efficient and more powerful, but holy shiznits has Nvidia dropped the ball when it came to driver updates after Maxwell came out. My poor old GTX 690 wants to do some work again!

[@seraanimsti3816]

Yea, only the gtx750 that are still getting update now because it’s a maxwell card

[@marcoescamilla8856]

Oh man that gtx 480 can cook a good ribeye steak 😋

[@FullyBuffered]

Great work man :D ! The 480 has certainly aged better than it had any right to considering the flaws at the time of release. The 'fixed' version in the form the of GTX 570 has been the best GPU I've ever bought.

[@krystostheoverlord1261]

Just bought a 570 myself and can confirm it is quite great! Still fairly hot though 😂

Just sent mine to retirement recently... it was nice while it lasted. But nowadays I had to resort to all kind of things to make the card run them decently... I used it for years, still in perfect condition, what an excellent card!

[@computerrefurbishment9748]

Another great video. Only tech channel where I've watched the videos more than once. Never thought a gpu review closure statement would include the phrase "set on fire" lol

[@TheRacePig]

I'm getting strong Fermi vibes form the recent intel 10 series CPUs, they run ridiculously hot and draw a ton of power and are only just barely keeping up with AMD. Weird how these sorts of things tend to repeat in tech.

[@virtualtools_3021]

and the 30xx series nvidia cards

[@siyzerix]

@@virtualtools_3021 Yep. Also the radeon rx6000 series

[@virtualtools_3021]

even worse: now the 11th gen, look up anandtechs early reveiw on the 11700k... avx-512=thermonuclear mode engage

[@iustrenght355]

@@virtualtools_3021 well at least now the i9 11900k beats the ryzen 7 5800x with like double the tdp? Good job intel

[@TensaZangetsu1200]

@@siyzerix Only the reference cards. My 6800XT red devil runs real cool.

[@gasparspeed]

Even tho the cooler on those stock GTX480 looked big with those thick heatpipes sticking from the side, the actual cooler is quite tiny compared to modern one, even more thinking that it was used to cool down a 250W TDP monster GPU like Fermi was.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

In this era I had an AMD card, but by the end of that old PC’s lifespan it ran so hot that I had to take the sides of the case off to increase airflow or it would crash at over 90 degrees. That rig kept my whole room hot every winter. I dread to think how crazy it would’ve been with one of these Fermi cards.

[@digitalronin7495]

Around a year ago I bought three gtx 480's so I could mess around and run them in three way sli, just so I could see how hot it would be and how much power it would draw, all just for fun. Haven't gotten around to actually doing it yet but this video has rekindled my interest!

[@Ndlanding]

I appreciate the use of "rekindled".

[@Jimb0ss99]

First set of benchmarks I've seen where BeamNG is tested, thanks. And nice video!

[@Imblitzyboi]

Bean mg jkjk

[@dekio9245]

Imagine how much suffer the thermal paste have to endure.

[@luminumlx2604]

it heats so much that it freezes

[@ethanspaziani5269]

Thank you for this video watching these videos really helps give me an idea of what these are capable of I am extremely poor and have been wanting to build my own computer since 2009 all I could ever do is watch from a distance and a lot of my time in my life I didn't even have internet so I couldn't really even keep up with the computer World videos helped me realize what exactly I missed and what it's no good for Budget options I really appreciate your hard work you're someone who really knows what they're talking about

[@WarDaddy]

When I had the gtx 470 it warmed up my room temperature during gaming sessions

[@zzoinks]

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap Really?!

[@Metal555Fan]

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap That's damn crazy. Must have been quite the situation.

[@kirbyswarp]

I recently bought two to sli them. Apart from running hot and heating up the room like crazy they played all my games flawlessly.

[@windowsntworkstation4.0]

Crazy how this is still a decent performer 10 years later, considering a VooDoo 4 or a GeForce 256 would be be completely obsolete in 2010

[@beamboy07]

I was thinking a pentium 4 in 2010 would be shite buy a 3rd gen i7 wouldn't be too shite in 2022

[@beamboy07]

Many people use 10 year old computers i did last yeah but you couldn't imagine using a 1997 pc in 2007 could you a pc built for win 95 wouldn't be sufficient

[@beamboy07]

Also the jump from ps3 256mb ram to ps4 8gb ram was huge but the ps4 to ps5 ram increase was only twice as much as the ps4 (16gb)

[@beamboy07]

I think progress is slowing down

[@astroidexadam5976]

Nvidia's 1060, 1070, 1070 Ti, 1080 and 1080 Ti are getting close to 10 years and they are still holding very well, same for AMD's RX 480 8GB, 570 8GB and 580

[@jackstoner9644]

My CPU: *Finally a worthy opponent.*

[@earlninoagustin8176]

Let me guess is it an fx series?

[@computerrefurbishment9748]

Would love to see Harry Hill review a FX9000 series cpu and this card...."Which is hotter? There is only one way to find out...FIIIGHHHHTT!!"

[@damara2268]

@@computerrefurbishment9748 should get to it the i9 10900k instead. That draws peak over 250 W

[@computerrefurbishment9748]

@@damara2268 Nice that's the 'Arnie' of the gang.

[@virtualtools_3021]

@sw4gr1d undervolt? screw that imma overclock

[@Menyus-wr6ul]

I used 2 in SLI 5 years ago. I really love them. Even played BF 1 with those cards. One of them actually in this PC where i wrote these lines. The other is "in the box". Waiting for a 4way SLI config.

[@bigpierogi]

when will you cook beans on this thing

[@sm00thgames63]

Those were the days of playing in boxers, i remember my phenom ii x4 hd 6870 set up would get so freaking hot the whole room would heat up, i can't imagine the kind of hell people went through with this card and a warmer cpu.

[@almighty151986]

I have a GTX480 as a back up card that I was using all but 3 weeks ago and it's damn surprising just how well it does in the games I own at 1080p. I also think it's one of the best looking cards ever made with it's gun metal nickle plated cooler. Toss in 20%+ overclock and it's a classic :D

[@LOVERZPLACE]

Little known fact about this cards, having owned 3 of them at the time they were new, most of the power issues with them vanished if you put them sub ambient temps, and I am not talking dry ice or anything, just a chiller. The power savings doing so were so good, that measuring total system power at the wall, I saved power running the chiller than I did just running the cards stock. From what I heard at the time from the enthusiast community, was that the internal interconnects of the chip were very poorly designed, and that is where most of the excess heat came from.

[@HeffboomKonijn]

the GTX 470 was my return to Nvidia after my last card being a BFG Geforce 6800 GT. it felt like a super computer GPU. To me, it was an unreal boost and wow was such a great card for me. Im super nostalgic for the Fermi cards

[@glossedghost]

I think that, for Doom 2016, you can enable very detailed engine statistics from the options seeing as MSI Afterburner doesn't capture framerate on that.

[@nicwilson89]

I had a GTX470, Gigabyte Super Overclock variant. It was quite a beast for performance at the time, overclocked well, and the aftermarket Gigabyte cooling actually kept the thermals under control fairly well, hence why I could OC it to 480 levels of performance easily. Turned out to be a pretty decent buy haha

[@CaveyMoth]

I love that SEUS PTGI is used as a benchmark now. Here's looking at the future of video game rendering (without hardware accelerated ray tracing).

[@hodgoes2001]

FX 8150 with 3 GTX 480s in sli back in the day. With triple screens Was my old rig. Worked pretty well. Had them over clocked to 850mhz and used to run them at around 98deg C Still have them in mates systems Still all work to this day

[@GeneralLee131]

The Zotac one with the Zalman cooler was pretty trick. Mine rarely got above 60 degrees even with an overclock. Great card. Only thing that holds it back today is memory.

[@jedrula77]

When the old 480 fermi card is repaired (reflov or reball), IHS delid should be made and the thermally conductive material replaced, because the old paste is fossilized a long time and does not conduct heat well. I gave liquid metal and sealed all the capacitors on the GPU with nail polish and re-applied the IHS. Even after a high OC, the card keeps the temperature below 90 degrees Celsius and before that it was 105 and the card slowed down the GPU clock. Oh, and the TDP of this card is not 250W but 300-380 (after OC) W in Furmark !!!

[@filenotfound__3871]

6:22 *10 year old grill

[@monsieurjimony5190]

I love how there is just bloody simcity music in the background aswell xD

[@HelghastMerc]

Two years ago, when I was building my Windows XP retro PC, I was very close to buying a GTX 480. What stopped me was the amount of heat it generates and the power consumption. Instead, I got an AMD Radeon HD 5970, but a month later, I replaced it with a EVGA Geforce GTX 560 Ti 448. The 560 Ti is a pretty good card and it works fine for me, under Windows XP. That 480 would not have been a good combination for my AMD FX 4300. My FX 4300 doesn't run too hot, but it is a bit of a heat generator.

[@TheDoctorCMG]

I loved my GTX 480 SLI setup back then. I had an Antec 1200 and cooling was never a big issue but I also didn't push the OC hardcore. That setup lasted me a long time at 1080p. Only when I went to 2k did I finally upgrade to a GTX 980

[@MrKeltron]

Got an ad for an air conditioner

[@jeposton]

Not surprised at all. VRAM is what is holding it back on newer titles. The thermal issue was not the biggest issue. I suspect the GTX980 will suffer a similar fate of not enough VRAM.

[@nashthebaker9338]

I remember getting a GTX 465 back then and flashing it to a GTX 470. I remember playing Skyrim and every now and then, my card would hit 105C and the blower fan would run at max speed until it cooled down to 70 or so. It was hot and loud. :D But it ran Skyrim nicely.

[@Foxxnioxx]

I had one of these back in the day. It was a decent upgrade from the 5770 I had, especially for the $200 I paid. But MAN, was it hot and loud! So much so that I cut a hole in the floor of my case and installed an extra fan to feed it with more cool air. Only replaced it when it died.

[@FasuloA]

Thank you for using Sim City background music. Now I have to decide whether to boot up Sim City 3000 or Sim City.

[@RuruFIN]

I remember having a GTX 470, played Crysis on summer 2012 and I heard a loud POP! Temps were at 105C, the heatspreader popped off. Well, I put a Twin Turbo II with direct contact to the die, temps dropped to around 70C even with maximum OC.

[@monkeyman767]

God the way you balance components over the water feature thing looks really pretty but always makes my heart skip a few beats even for budget tech.

[@flotowncomputerguy6243]

I had these in SLI with a 1100T Phenom II X6 overclocked to 4ghz. That doubled as a space heater.

[@KaMil-gw2qr]

Was an awesome card. Used evga step up to get the 580 but truthfully would have been content with the 480 for another two years easy. Good airflow in the case with manual fan control on the GPU seemed to take care of any crazy temps for me.

[@gordan79]

GTX480 was _awesome_. You could modify it into a Quadro 6000 with just changing a couple of bits in the device ID strap. That got you double the memory bandwidth and enabled it to work with unmodified drivers in virtual machines, long before hypervisors received options to hide their presence from Nvidia drivers.

[@HarryVoyager]

I actually got one of those back in the day. It was quite hot, but beyond that handled everything that I threw at it. At some point I decided I was going to do a bonkers rebuild (figured it was the last time I was going to build my on PC for a long time and had the spare money to go bonkers) and ended up going with a 7990, and I didn't really feel like I got that much of a performance bump from it. I almost certainly did, but I think it came in combination of at a time when I was winding down on computer gaming, and because it was a Crossfire Card, I suspect that the SLI micro-stutters really did it in.

[@isaac4048]

Bought one for $8 yesterday. Jackpot!

[@eliadbu]

People tend to forget that while the 400 series had thermal issues, the 500 series that still was based on Fermi solved most of the issues. I had 2 570 in SLI (Back then SLI was well supported) and they were a graphical powerhouse and not thermally constrained.

[@GoobyGooby]

I remember my friend had SLI's 480s. He just left his heat off in the winter most of the time cause these cards where good enough.

[@Valdore1000]

I went from 8800 GT to GTX 470 and it was one the best upgrades I've ever done back then.

[@shinkuhs]

The other 480 video from 2 years ago was the first ever video I watched from you

[@ventsislav92makaveev]

The Sim CIty music in the background got me checking everything :D

[@valiantdiesel1332]

I used to run these in SLI! It's selling point was that I didn't ever need to reheat anything because it would keep my room unbearably toasty. I'm almost sure it's unfair to run shaders on Minecraft as a benchmark because they're often really poorly optimised and this card can play vanilla so well. Nevertheless, awesome video, love the systematic style of it all. I for one am glad to be rid of my thermi bastards now!

[@arnislacis9064]

I have Quadro 600 laying around, it was also built on Fermi (Thermi) architecture, and it is hot, even just idling in desktop.

[@ajohnstitch]

I had these in 2way SLI, It was like living under a runway.Good cards though it was nice to get the GTX580 sometime after.

[@lvl90dru1d]

3:22 similar thing in Russian, GTX written on the Russian keyboard layout would be ПЕЧ which sounds the same as "печь" (furnace)

[@P2PC]

The GTX 480's core actually contains 512 cuda cores rather than 480. The chip was locked down conserve on power consumption, thermals and yielding issues.

[@FerralVideo]

I got a GTX 470 in a box full of old computers. It's loaded in my overclocked FX 4100. That's a spicy PC!

[@FerralVideo]

@sw4gr1d Huh. Going to have to grab my clamp meter and Kill-a-Watt to test that. I do know putting an R290x in there with it pushed over 650w at the wall under torture testing.

[@tohirigaming5235]

Really im just flexing using my hot pc to cook beef not pork i can't eat it

[@kustu]

I have an old GTX 460 2GB still in my secondary PC. After 10 years of service, it's still working and running light games just fine.

[@shotgunmasterQL]

Not the same card or even architecture, but I was still sporting a prebuilt PC with a GTX 560Ti and a blower fan a while ago, which ran so steamy, 80 c in the best possible scenario with a new thermal paste, but before that during hot summers 98 c was the peak I was regularly hitting without any obvious thermal throttling. I heard 110 was supposed to be the "breaking point" of those cards. Aside from the blower, another reason why it might have ran so hot, was because it was a refurbish/binned GTX 570 taken and "fixed" by Saphire and clocked to perform similarly to a GTX 560. It died earlier this year, suddenly started blanking to a black picture, monitor was giving a "out of range" warning when I tried to play some MP4 file. Rebooted PC and it bluescreened on me, until I just uninstalled the drivers. If I try to reinstall them, same thing happens, so I assume its toast. Rip, my steamy fake GTX 560 Ti

[@mongocom1735]

"Hot furnace card"... RTX 3090: "Bonjour"

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

given that the gtx 400 and 500 series all had heatspreaders, and are likely now going on to a decade old, it sure does seem like it's probably not out of the question to consider de-lidding those GPU's and adjusting the cooler to make direct contact with the die to see if that would help temperatures further. If I had one now, it would certainly be worth trying. on the flip side, I did have a 460 on hand I tried de-lidding and that was unfortunately a failure. When the IHS popped off it cracked a corner of the die and that was it. At least its cooler did have mounting holes to let me re-use it on my 4GB 960 and that made a dramatic improvement on temps for it from its original blower arrangement.

[@devil5051000]

Had two of them in SLI running watercooled. Temperatures were no issue with watercooling (have never seen more then 75°). Power consumption while gaming was around 700 Watts for the whole system. ^^ Main problem of such old cards is (missing driver support aside) the lack of memory. 1.5 Gigs is simply not enough in the 2020s.

[@elijah4168]

Cooking with Babish: Baking on a GTX 480

[@LinkDerg]

Im quite confused and surprised how well the graphics card is being that old, yet some of these games ran worse on my PC still with a card from 2017... It might be some kind of inner bottleneck from the CPU or whatnot, but its just crazy to see the kind of performance a hated card can do today.

[@King_K_Rool_]

Random but i did a clean up of my old megadrive, took the grubby shell, scrubbed it and rinsed it with a hose and left it to dry on my shed roof inspired by you sir :) ps I'm still waiting for beans to make an appearance!

[@exador1337]

to be fair the main part of the problem was the stock nvidia cooler. i modified my GTX 480 with a twin fan replacement cooler and after that it never passed 60°C ever again.

[@3800S1]

There is so many cards I hardly know about, I mean I do recall the meme somewhat but I went straight from a 9800 GTX to a GTX 980

[@troglodude980]

The reason for the artifacts is less so the drivers being old and more so its "support" of dx12 is half assed. Its hardware wasnt really meant for it so games using it are bugged

[@SteamCheese1]

A yes! The nVidia Grillforce Thermi! Legend has it that Jensen Huang has 4 of them in SLI running Crysis to make his finest Steaks, Bacon and Egg.

[@LowSpecActionSquad]

what would have been the "GTX 490" was actually turned into the Tesla c2070. there also existed a c2050. I personally owned a c2050 and it is a damn good gaming card, it's basically a GTX 480 but with a single DVI output and 3 gigs of VRAM

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

GTX460 was the GPU I used in my own first build. I was jealous of 470/465 owners a bit.

[@AvroBellow]

I heard that nVidia sold several Fermis to be used as electric barbecues. It made me glad that I was still happily rocking my twin XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB cards. Mind you, I wouldn't buy an nVidia card if you paid me to so I guess it really didn't matter all that much. nVidia GTX 500 -> The way it was meant to be delayed.

[@Pressbutan]

GTX 480 paired really well with a dual Xeon 5355 in 2015-2016 for me. Not gonna lie. It's probably a bit too downmarket for my needs nowadays but it can still hold its own

[@ZunaZurugi]

My gtx 570 also reached regulary 97°C and once 100°C :D but .. that was mainly my fault back then. I didnt clean the PC for 2 years as i tought im not alowed to open it for 2 years. Good ol Days. Actually 570 was great but because NVIDIA puts not enough VRAM in their cards i ha to replace it for that reason. Could run Fallout 4 fine but after reaching 1.2gb VRAM it stuttered.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

6:32 OMG :-O Is that a PRE-order nano-suit? ;-D

[@KittyKatKya]

One could only wish the Terascale cards were treated as well in their twilight years. AMD's handling of the final drivers for 5000 and 6000 series cards are nowhere near as flattering.

[@hardwarechronicles9178]

Imagine yourself that someone actually is mining with these with racks full of these xD

"hot furce of a card" oh i c a Fermi sounds like Thermi > Thermal > Heat> Furnace generates Heat nice

[@danpolyukhovich5291]

The GTX 460 was amazing though, I remember some binned models could overclock so far they were pretty much on par with the GTX 480

[@likeclockwork6473]

The GTX 460 is the only Fermi GPU worth using nowadays. The power draw on the 480 is just too high to justify in an old school PC.

[@jbsthegamer]

I have that same GPU in my room. I tested it a while back in 2020. It worked like okay but not the greatest getting so HOT that it nearly burns my hand. I mean it gets like really really hot. I have the signature version by the way but it's about the same. I overclocked it a lot and it got more FPS but still got slightly hotter. But it's fine when you don't care if your PC sounds like it's about to take off no matter how or low you put the clocks at. But it works exactly how he explained it.

[@SmoothiesGaming]

Is that Simcity music playing in the background??? Damn, you are making me want to reinstall that game again...

[@DiabloXL69]

Someone needs to put this GPU in a Pentium 4 Prescott pc and do the ultimate super 'hot' build...

[@queotzcatl3980]

Summer, Radeon HD6850. Winter, GTX480. They compensate each other very well. My Q6600 also is king of the thermal. I remember really fancy LC 480 back in time... I got the 6850 in the end.

[@MrRobot-ry7ky]

Wow.I have a 120W gpu and a 80W cpu, and in the summer my room would get to 30 degrees C when gaming from 22-23 Celsius.I can't imagine what this GPU would be like.Also, imagine having paired one of these with a Phenom II x6 back in 2010.It would have been like having a sauna :D.

[@Ndlanding]

In my room in summer, it's 36ºC *before* I turn my computer on. Seriously. So appreciate your comfort!

[@Gael32]

I think people give the GTX 400 and 500 series a little to much crap and look at Radeon cards with rose-tinted glasses during this time. For my part, I actually used both the Radeon 5870 and a GTX 570 in the same year. The Radeon card ran just as hot and actually went up in flames 3 years after I got it. As for the GTX 570, it's sitting on a shelf having been replaced long ago by other GPUs, but I know it still works. Funny enough, it actually uses the exact same shroud as the GTX 480.

[@leosthrivwithautism]

The weather is cold here, I could use this space heater! 😂

[@bunter6]

you should do a retrospective on the R9 290/X series these cards a power hungry monsters but they are still very usable today @ 1080p

[@RafiXX]

I had Fermi 2 GTX 580, but Gainward cooler worked like "semi reference" and I had 82-84°C during game (sometimes 88 eg. in menu).

[@dreammfyre]

Until last year I played Path Of Exile and WoW on a friggin GTX 560. Unless you play AAA-games, these old cards hold up surprisingly well.