| EVGA GTX 460 SC Superclocked Video Card |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards | |
| Written by Bruce Normann | |
| Saturday, 04 September 2010 | |
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EVGA GeForce GTX460 SC Video Card ReviewThe NVIDIA GTX 460 is quickly establishing itself as the card to beat in its price segment. The reconfigured Fermi architecture of the new GF104 chip gives the card a real edge in gaming performance, compared to the first GPUs in the series. With 1/3 fewer transistors to feed, the board uses much less power, runs cooler, and it overclocks extremely well with just air cooling. With that kind of capability baked into the basic design, it didn't take long for NVIDIA's partners to start releasing overclocked editions. EVGA is one of the top AIC vendors for NVIDIA products, with a well established and loyal customer base. Their latest GTX460 video card is an SC (Superclocked) model that takes the reference design and pumps it up by 13%.
Software control of a video card's GPU clocks and core voltage is the fastest and easiest way to improve its performance. With so much apparent headroom available on the GTX 460 for overclocking, EVGA offers full control of GPU and memory clocks with its EVGA Precision software utility, and full monitoring capability of most parameters is included. Going one step further in the monitoring effort, EVGA also offers their OC Scanner software which has stress testing and artifact detection built in. Both of these tools offer full and flexible support for SLI configurations, which is something people are very interested in with the GTX460. Driver updates are a touchy subject for the enthusiast and gaming communities, but NVIDIA released a major performance upgrade to their Fermi drivers right around the same time as the GTX 460 hit the market and got some great synergy from the combination. Let's take a complete look, inside and out, at the EVGA GeForce GTX460 SC and then run it through Benchmark Reviews full test suite. I want to see how this Superclocked edition performs with a 763 MHz factory overclock, and then push it even further if I can.
Manufacturer: EVGA Corp. Full Disclosure: The product sample used in this article has been provided by EVGA.
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EVGA GeForce GTX460 768MB DDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card 768-P3-1360-TR
And this one is 189.00
EVGA 768-P3-1362-TR GeForce GTX460 768 MB Superclocked DDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card
So for under 380.00US you can have two 460s. Also, would it help to have a MB with two PCIE x16 slots instead of 1 x16 and 1 x8?
You'll see about 10% better performance with two 1GB versions in SLI, and maybe 15% better with two overclocked versions.
I like the price performance ratio of this card and two together should do what I want them to handily.
Was wondering if anyone could post some of their Overclock settings for this card as I've never tried overclocking before. Everything is running good but I'm hoping to squeeze more power out of FFXIV.
Running a single card, not SLI.
That temperature is fine, very low in fact. As for overclocking, take a look here: benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=416&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=21
I suggest overclocking the GPU first, and worry about the video RAM last.
Viendo tu resumen con un reloj de 763 y memoria de 900mhz practicamente es comparable con la ati 5850, si la ssc viene con reloj de 850 mhz y memoria overlokeado a 3900 mhz estaria igual o superior a la ati 5870?
no he recibido ninguna respuesta, sera porque nadie sabe? esa tarjeta ya viene super overclok, se puede subir mas o no es aconsejable hacerlo? que dice la gente de benchmarkreviews?