Gadgetory

okay so continuing my GeForce GTX 480 coverage I thought you know what what's one of the big problems people have with all the current generation graphics cards wait if you're shipping a system or even if you're installing your system in one place but then you have to move it somewhere else all of this weight hanging off the PCI Express slot and then the one little screw at the back could be a little bit of a problem so I thought I'd take the 480 because it has such a beefy cooling system and compare the weight to a couple other top-of-the-range cards on the market so why don't we start with the GTX 480 I'm gonna put it on my little scale here and I'll hold this up for you to see so this is a 2-pound graphics card that is all 2 pounds all right so then why don't I compare it to the 1570 because I know at NCIX we've been having a little bit of trouble shipping systems with with these radio on 5000 series graphics cards so this is also a 2 pound graphics card so it's quite possible that our assembly Department will need to ship your system if you have a GTX 480 in it they'll may need to ship it separately and then have you install it yourself so I'll make a point of doing an installation video for the GTX 480 in the next little while but just to get that point of reference why don't we take the biggest bad boy of a of a graphics card out there this is the GT a GTX HD 59 70 and let's throw that on the scale for comparison so this is a 2.6 pound graphics card that is uh about 30% more than either of those other two graphics cards but it also has 200 percent more GPUs on it so you got to kind of go easy on it there so thank you for checking out my quick video on the weight of the GTX 480