nV News Reviews the EVGA Geforce GTX 460 Superclocked

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I thought you guys might like to see this; I got it published on launch day, albeit just barely.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=152967

FWIW it's probably one of the only reviews that uses uses an AMD instead of superfast/expensive Intel setup. Not that that makes it better, but I thought it fitting to review a performance segment video card in a performance segment motherboard/CPU setup. Yes I fully understand the concept of CPU limitation, but I don't agree with using $300 CPUs and $200 motherboards with $200 graphics cards.

I was kinda blown away by how strong the little bugger felt vs. the GTX 465 and HD 5830. That coupled with its quietness and coolness makes it in my opinion a great buy.

I had made a thread here and at NV News, [H] and rage3d asking folks what their needs/wants were regarding GF104. I was actually able to use the data I collected in the review... So thanks, techpowerup, for contributing.

 

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I like the fact that they used a CPU that wasnt the greatest and actually gave about avg to mid range gamer performance comparisons.

 

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I like the fact that they used a CPU that wasnt the greatest and actually gave about avg to mid range gamer performance comparisons.

I would have used my x3 @ x4 rig instead, but the x3 rig had an install on it that was in great shape with pretty much all of my games installed already. Besides, the x3 @ 3.6 ghz just about matches the x3 @ x4 @ 3.1 anyway.

 

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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2286741#post2286741

After getting some constructive criticism at some other hardware communities, I have decided to re-run the HD 5830 benchmarks to create a more apples-to-apples comparison with regards to texture filtering and optimizations. Apparently you can't turn off NV's driver-level optimizations, and when I did the review I turned Catalyst AI off of the ATI card.

I'm re-running the ATI benchmarks with Catalyst AI on Standard, with the texture filtering set the same as NV's: @ Quality, not High Quality.

I will amend the review when I have all the data in. Early results show the HD 5830 catching up to the NV cards in pretty much everything except applications using tessellation.