okay so continuing my GeForce gtx480 coverage I thought you know what what's
one of the big problems people have with all the current generation graphics
cards wait if you're shipping a system or even if you're installing your system
uh in one place but then you have to move it somewhere else all of this
weight hanging off the PCI Express slot and then the one little screw at the
back could be a little bit of a problem so I thought I'd take the 480 because it
has such a beefy cooling system and compare the weight to a couple other
top-of the range cards on the market so why don't we start with the gtx480 I'm
going to put it on my little scale here and I'll hold this up for you to see so
this is a 2 lb graphics card that is all
2B all right so then why don't I compare it to the 5870 because I know at NC
we've been having a little bit of trouble shipping systems with with these
Radeon 5000 series graphics cards so this is also a 2-b graphics card so it's
quite possible that our assembly department will need to ship your system
if you have a GTX 480 in it they'll might need to ship it separately and
then have you install it yourself so I'll make a point of doing an installation video for the gtx480 in the
uh next little while but just to get that point of reference why don't we
take the biggest bad boy of a uh of a
graphics card out there this is the GT GTX HD
5970 and let's throw that on the scale for comparison so this is a 2.6 PB
graphics card that is uh about 30% more than either of those
other two graphics cards but it also has 200% more gpus on it so you got to kind
of go easy on it there so thank you for checking out my quick video on the
weight of the GTX 48