NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Benchmarks Bad Company 2, Crysis, 3DMark06, Temperatures & Noise

Short and Sweet, spent a few days with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and ran it through various games including; Bad Company 2, Crysis, 3DMark06 and also did some objective testing on Temperatures and Noise. The final conclusion is that it isn't all bad news. The media has vilified the GTX 480 a bit, by making it out as a mini heater that sounds like pocket rocket and requires a small nuclear factory to run. While the latter is true, temps and noise of the retail products aren't as out to lunch as many pre-production samples experienced. Read the full written review on the website! http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/30297-nvidia-geforce-gtx-480-review.html It would appear that the GTX 480 offers some exceptional performance, unquestionably coming out ahead of the the HD 5870; however, as always, that comes with an increased cost.