GTX 480 - Worth it?

[Jurwi]

Bah, money flows in on monthly basis, it's ment to be spent

[DeltrusDisc]

I have a friend with a pny gtx 480, and hes always complaining about the heat, and the crashes from it.

Myself, I have a gtx 570, they run at 28 during the day/monring and 35c at night. (obviously GPU1 will run hotter) The GTX 570 in my eyes is a MUCH better card then the gtx 480. I would go near a 480 unless it was on water to be honest. They are way to hot. How does 90+ c degress sound, and a f**k ton of power draw?

NOT WORTH IT. Sure they were good on performance, but I would rather have something a little slower than sitting in a room thats 90+ c degrees and loud fan speed.

I have not read anywhere that PNY makes good heatsinks for video cards... =/
My old Green Edition, yes a GE 9800 GT 1GB GDDR3 was always 60+ Celsius, sometimes hitting 70, which yeah that's not going to kill it - but it's still damned hot.