Sworn_Vendetta Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 Ok so at around the time of my birthday this year (13th January) I bought myself a EVGA classified motherboard with the plan of builduing a new gameing comp. At first I planned on useing my old Zotac 260GTX's in sli, ao I went along and ended up spending a lot of money on my new computer the anitial cost was about $4100AUD. This was when I heard that Nvidia was going to be releaseing there new gpu's the 400 series in March and of course being the power hungry person I am, I couldn't wait for them to be released. So on Friday the 27th March (This was when they were released in Australia) I jumped on my computer at around 10am and saw that they were selling the EVGA 480gtx's for around $850AUD each, I contemplated only buying one for about 1minute and then my finger slipped and I ended up ordering two by accident.... The website i ordered it from said there was a ETA of the 14th of April, which was fine with me because I new I would be getting them regardless . Sadly on the 1st of April I recieved an Email from the company I purchased them from saying that only 10 GTX480'S!!!! would be sent to Australia by the 14th of April and that I would have to wait until the end of the month to get mine.... At first I was extremeley pissed off to say the least, but eventually I got over it. So on the 14th of April I was sitting playing some wow on my $4100AUD comp when I got this email stateing that my EVGA gtx480's had been sent and would arrive in the mail in around 2-5days, well it took 6days but THEY FINALLY ARRIVED!!!! So without further adoo, here are some pics of my video cards... I dont no why but my camera decided to take a portrait shot. A pic of the lovely foam packaging Ok I suppose you've seen all of this in reviews so Ill get onto the good pictures.... This is a pic of my computer with my old Zotac 260gtx's in SLI This is a close up of the 260Gtx's And then BAM the beautiful EVGA 480GTX's installed in all their glory... and Molex cable you can see underneath the second Video card is what is powering my cold cathodes, so don't worry. I have more pics if people are interested if not then thanks for reading this thread I suppose. >< Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilcliff Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 man you forked out some serious dough for them. too bad pccg dropped the prices by $50 a pop after you ordered. the question on everyone's mind. how are they at running crysis maxed details ? how are you finding gaming with them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sworn_Vendetta Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) man you forked out some serious dough for them. too bad pccg dropped the prices by $50 a pop after you ordered. the question on everyone's mind. how are they at running crysis maxed details ? how are you finding gaming with them? Funny you should mention the drop of the price.... About 1 week after I ordered them I got a phone call form pccg (which is wear i ordered them) and they told me they were refunding me about $150 because of the drop of price Also I sadly don't own crysis yet... Im working on getting it but yeah gameing is awesome. One hting I should probably post all my comps specs lol... so here thye are. Case: Corsair 800D cpu: Intel core i7 930 at stock setting (Still learning to oc) cpu cooler: Corsair h50 Ram: 12gig of Corsair dominator GT 2000mhz 8-8-8-20 Ram cooler: Corsair ram cooler (Came with the ram I have 2 spare ones now lol because I had to buy 3 x 4gig packs ) Motherboard: EVGA x58 classified Hdd1: 2tb Samsung 7500rpm Hdd2: 2tb Samsung 7500rpm SSD: Patriot V2 64gig Optical drive: Samsung BR/DVD drive combo OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit GPU's: 2 EVGA 480GTX's in sli (Stock settings, not willing to oc yet as they are hot enough already) Total cost: $5800AUD Still to come: Monitors: 3 x Samsung P2250 21.5 Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Mouse: Razer Naga Keybord: Logitech g19 Mouse Pad: Ripper XXL Total cost come: Around $750-$800 AUD Edited April 22, 2010 by Sworn_Vendetta Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownuser200 Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 hmm nice but may i sugguest cleaning up the cables... i may have sugguested this over at trubritar as well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sworn_Vendetta Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 hmm nice but may i sugguest cleaning up the cables... i may have sugguested this over at trubritar as well Trust me I've got that many cables running behind the motherboard tray its bulging out slightly lol.... I might have another go at re-wireing it though whenthe rest of my case fans show up... but yeah atm those cables aren't going anywhere... sadly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownuser200 Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 atleast use some tie wraps to neaten it up Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilcliff Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 Funny you should mention the drop of the price.... About 1 week after I ordered them I got a phone call form pccg (which is wear i ordered them) and they told me they were refunding me about $150 because of the drop of price Also I sadly don't own crysis yet... Im working on getting it but yeah gameing is awesome.That's awesome that they did that. I've heard that pccg has great customer service and this backs it up. i don't know of any other place that would refund you in a similar situation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sworn_Vendetta Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 atleast use some tie wraps to neaten it up Yeah I agree, but thats all stuff im going to worry about when Im installing the rest of the case fans.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sworn_Vendetta Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 That's awesome that they did that. I've heard that pccg has great customer service and this backs it up. i don't know of any other place that would refund you in a similar situation. Id have to agree, thye might not always have the best prices but I will always go back to them because of how efficient they are and there customer service is superior to a lot of other places... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebarone Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 Thats sexy! I have a question for you though... it looks like you have some space between your cards, I'm assuming for airflow. Does that mean you're running one card in the x16 slot and one in the x8 slot? Or is your board laid out in such a way that you can get both cards in x16 slots? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sworn_Vendetta Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 Thats sexy! I have a question for you though... it looks like you have some space between your cards, I'm assuming for airflow. Does that mean you're running one card in the x16 slot and one in the x8 slot? Or is your board laid out in such a way that you can get both cards in x16 slots? There all x16 slots.... Don't quote me on that though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkishbloke Posted April 22, 2010 Posted April 22, 2010 Thats sexy! I have a question for you though... it looks like you have some space between your cards, I'm assuming for airflow. Does that mean you're running one card in the x16 slot and one in the x8 slot? Or is your board laid out in such a way that you can get both cards in x16 slots? most tri sli boards have the two x16 slots at the top and the bottom and a x8 in the middle (atleast as far as im aware) what PSU are you running? gotta be something meaty to run all that top notch kit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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