I'm interested in one of these cards but I'm not interested in having to upgrade my PSU to support it. You guys think a Corsair HX620W Power supply - 620 Watt can handle these cards? I don't have many devices. OCing my e8400 to 3.6 but its still stock voltage, couple HD's and a couple media drives, but thats it. What ya guys think?
if you are going to buy any 460GTX get this one, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125333 it beats the 465 GTX in benchmarks and its one of the coolest running cards made, this thing has yet to go over 35 Celcius lol....thats with the fan only at 40% LOL the dual fans and heatsink are sick.....plus this card is quiet as fuck.
Not sure if i could buy that card, I'm too much of a eVGA fan. Will be buying this once I get the money / my desktop to my new place.
Lol for that amount you could get so much more buying preoverclocked cards is just rediculous when you could achieve the same speeds with a normal card for $40 less. Superclocked cards get nutty in price
at work we sold out of the palit sonic and sonic plats the 1gb ones 2 days after we got em ... we only have a few left of the evga super clocked ... i want to get one but i have no money right now
True, getting them on sale is sweet, my EVGA 260 GTX Supaclocked was only $170 when I bought it now its I think roughly $210 EDIT: $205 but with shipping its over $210..........close enough........only reason its $205 is because its an open box
I'm just gunna wait until TERA or a new game I wanna play comes out then I'll buy. Was gunna get one of these asap but whats the point if all I'm playing lately is CS 1.6..
alright so im returning the gigabyte 460GTX and just grabbing me the EVGA superclocked since its the same price and I know im not going to get some rediculous temperatures from the card. I swear the only reason this gigabyte card has two fans is because of the fact that I'm pretty sure when I put it in had almost no heat sync.....meaning it completely relies on these fans to get rid of the heat.......such a dumb idea. EVGA I had nothing even close to 50 Celcius in my card......they know how to craft a card and now I realize why theirs card are huge its for the sake of cooling and stability.
i got myself this one: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...sk=view&id=586&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=3 gtx460 768mb XLR8 from PNY, cost me 259 euro here in Holland. very happy with it now my 9800GT can be passed on to my lil bro so he can retire his nvidia 8 series card...
^^^^^^^^^^ Awww thats sad The 768mb card isnt nearly as good as the 1GB card. If possible you should take it back and pay a little bit more for the much better version. It isnt just a memory difference. The 768MB version has a smaller memory bus, which means less bandwidth available. with memory changes alone your looking at about 30 gigabytes per second less bandwidth capability. Plus then you have this next part: It has 8 less ROPs, dropping the card down to a measly 24 pipelines. 24 ROPs was the norm like, 4 or 5 generations ago. Means it can do a lot less operations per second. The cores level 2 cache size is also dropped lowering performance even further. Please, if possible pay an extra $20 or so and get the better card. On modern monitor resolutions you WILL see a difference in performance. And with games advancing so much you will need the extra performance in the coming years. Here is the actual numbers difference between the two versions. Look at Pixel fill rate, texture fill rate, memory bandwidth, and ROPs: The Unigine Heaven benchmark is where you can really see the performance difference. Everywhere else it isnt quite as drastic, but this goes to show you what you can expect from future game performance. Honestly I believe the huge performance gap here is mostly due to memory capacity than the other things that are less in the card. At lower resolutions the performance gap is only a couple FPS. This benchmark screenshot has the LEAST difference of just about all games and benchmarks in the lower resolutions. Actual games the difference is greater than a few FPS (for lower res). But in the high resolutions and large texture usage that you will see start to be pushed even further in the future you can see what happens to performance:
Ares shouldn't be allowed on any benchmarking test, they only made what a 1000 of them and they cost over a grand each... Is there an SLI comparison? Fermi cards scaling is insane, I've heard the 460+ get up to 80%+.
We are only really looking at the difference between GTX460's though because thats what this thread is about and what the previous posted said he just got. But yes, in some things SLI on the new Fermi cards can get very good performance scaling.
Yeah, I think guru3rd did a good article on it. Also, been lots of articles that the 1gb is "better" in terms of price/performance. Indeed, spend a little more and grab the 1gb if you are "on the fence" about it. *quick google* Here it is, I believe: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-sli-review/ Although the 460 are an amazing card, and based off the gf104, I think I'm going to wait and see if they come out with a 475 or something.