PNY nVidia GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Weight & Installation Safety Concerns Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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okay so continuing my GeForce gtx480 coverage I thought you know what what's
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one of the big problems people have with all the current generation graphics
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cards wait if you're shipping a system or even if you're installing your system
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uh in one place but then you have to move it somewhere else all of this
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weight hanging off the PCI Express slot and then the one little screw at the
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back could be a little bit of a problem so I thought I'd take the 480 because it
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has such a beefy cooling system and compare the weight to a couple other
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top-of the range cards on the market so why don't we start with the gtx480 I'm
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going to put it on my little scale here and I'll hold this up for you to see so
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this is a 2 lb graphics card that is all
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2B all right so then why don't I compare it to the 5870 because I know at NC
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we've been having a little bit of trouble shipping systems with with these
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Radeon 5000 series graphics cards so this is also a 2-b graphics card so it's
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quite possible that our assembly department will need to ship your system
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if you have a GTX 480 in it they'll might need to ship it separately and
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then have you install it yourself so I'll make a point of doing an installation video for the gtx480 in the
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uh next little while but just to get that point of reference why don't we
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take the biggest bad boy of a uh of a
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graphics card out there this is the GT GTX HD
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5970 and let's throw that on the scale for comparison so this is a 2.6 PB
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graphics card that is uh about 30% more than either of those
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other two graphics cards but it also has 200% more gpus on it so you got to kind
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of go easy on it there so thank you for checking out my quick video on the
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weight of the GTX 48