The Zotac GeForce GTX 480 is designed on Nvidia’s latest uber-graphics card design- the GTX 480. This card uses the Nvidia GF100 chip, which is the only fastest graphics chip on the planet and packs in all the latest features. But will it suit your purpose? Let’s find out.
Key among the GTX 480′s features is sustain for DirectX 11 gaming. This means all the newest and utmost features of the latest and greatest games will be available. Besides, the main highlights are tessellation, DirectCompute, and Multi-threaded rendering.
Weighing in at 913g and with a length of 268mm, this is one big and immense card, not that such a thing is exactly a surprise as its direct competitors also tip the scales at nearly one kilo. However, because it is so long, it overhangs the edge of a standard ATX motherboard and as such you’ll need to check carefully whether it’ll fit in your case, as many are only built to exactly contain ATX size boards. If you are in a habit of comparing cards based on game settings offered by the game Crysis then this card is the best you can get.
The card runs seriously hot because of being immense. It’s for this reason Nvidia has exposed the top of the heatsink, where usually this would be covered by the plastic shroud that covers the rest of the card, this card is supposed to be installed in a case with additional fans that should blow over the top of the heatsink for the best cooling and reliability. So this is how the card is- gets heated up but don’t forget- it also comes with Nvidia GF100 chip……now get on to decide.
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