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[crossmr]

That's obviously the price difference of low end stuff from little known chinese manufacturers. I probably wouldn't want it in my machine. What little I could find didn't seem to speak too highly of it.

The well known stuff isn't only 600000. Gainward is well known, they're only 479. That's with a discount at auction, with a good dozen sellers or so between 479-490. You can't tell me all of those are fake listings.

The other very well known stuff is higher.

[vDroop]

I am seeing that colorful 480 for 400,000w on a lot of sites. Perhaps they can't sell any at all and just need to get rid of them. It's a very unknown brand. Not carried on major sites anyway. There are some reviews and product descriptions for it around. I can't quite figure out why it's so cheap.

Edit: As mentioned above it's Chinese
http://en.colorful.cn/

[kprrok]

The problem isn't that each site is posting a fake listing.

This is how it works, I was told this by someone that has a shop.

1.) Store decides they want to sell product (a).

2.) Store finds a distributer that will sell them product (a) at price (x).

3.) Store lists (a) at (x)+y% to give them some profit.

4.) Store's website is written so that when distributor changes price, their's changes also.

5.) All other stores do the same thing leading to prices being almost identical for many products.

6.) None or very few of the stores actually carry (a) in their shop. They just get it from the big distributor as soon as someone actually orders it. Again, most stores do this as well.

[eamo]

I would guess that any price for a GTX480 under 500,000 is a low-ball........unless Korean vendors are suddenly selling high-end graphics cards for less than Newegg et al.

[crossmr]

[red_devil]

There's Absolute GTX480 from JOYZEN (someone mentioned them as being reliable) for 502,680. I've seen GAINWARD around 500K as well. If you don't want to scrape the bottom of the barrel with the 380-400K models than what about the 500-mid 500K?

[crossmr]

Gainward is probably okay. I haven't really heard any horror stories about them if you don't want to spring for a gigabyte.

[vDroop]

There's only 1 480 I'd ever even consider, due to the stupid amount of heat they put out and that's the Zotac AMP. It's the king of the 480s. And due to it's lower temps you can overclock it higher.

For Nvidea graphics cards the brands I trust are:

Gigabyte (great cooling, silent, good warranty)
EVGA (lifetime warranty + upgrade plan but very expensive)
Asus (all around quality, trusted name)
MSI (known for great performance, overclocking)
Zotac (lifetime warranty + known for great support)

That's not to say the others are crap. I just know that these are generally high quality, come with warranties, good cooling solutions, and support overclocking / overvolting software.

These are borderline: (for me anyway)

Sparkle (but they make the best ATI cards)
Palit
PNY
Gainward

Most others I'd avoid. But thats just me.

Also remember, there are usually a few different versions of the same card. They charge more for overclocked versions, which are just the same chip but binned higher. It's something you can do yourself so they generally aren't worth the extra cash. Other difference in pricing comes from the custom cooling they have on many cards. Reference cards are the cheapest and just use the regular shroud. They also tend to be the loudest and hottest. The last price difference will come from the amount of memory.

[red_devil]

Good info - i remember i tried overclocking a GeForce 2 MX back in the day...a PNY right out of the box, and burned it out totally...complete with smell of burnt plastic haha. Those were the days.

Interesting benchmark review on AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB and slightly older NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB

[vDroop]