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The GTX460 FTW is supplied in the stereotypical eVGA box design – no dragons or semi naked ladies here, just the name of the product and the company. We like it.
The bundle is well balanced… there is a software CD, literature on the product, vga converter and a mini HDMI to HDMI cable, always a great addition. eVGA also bundle an ‘eVga GTX400 GPU's' sticker with this card, which is rather unusual.
The card itself is shipped in an antistatic bag, protected within a cardboard shell. It is a very understated card, but we like the eVGA designs, they always look as if they mean business.
The fan is an 11 blade inverted design and if you look closely you can see copper heatpipes.
After removing the cooler and cleaning off the thermal paste we can get a closer look at the heatsink. It is a copper/aluminum hybrid design with a dual heatpipe connecting directly to the core.
The eVGA GTX460 FTW has two dual link DVI connectors and a mini HDMI connector. As mentioned earlier eVGA also supply a very high quality mini HDMI to HDMI converter cable. As expected, the card follows the reference design, requiring two 6 pin power connectors.
This card is supplied in a highly overclocked state, running at 850mhz on the core and 1000mhz (4000mhz effective) on the GDDR5 memory. A reference GTX460 operates at 675mhz on the core and 900mhz (3600mhz effective) on the memory. We have looked at these cards many times before so we won't bore you again with a detailed analysis of the hardware.
Briliant idea for a review Zardon. that little bugger can fairly fly! fantastic value for money.
very impressive card. I love the looks too, its so simple in design without colours and stickers all over it.
Christ, those 460s are killer. Surprised me how good it is in some of those engines. Is lost planet 2 any good ?
460GTX is the only good card nvidia have released all year. after that shocking 430 earlier this week its nice this was up to redress the results.
Good balanced reviewing. Z
I rarely see eVGA cards for sale in my region. Are they having supply issues?
I love eVGA products, such a shame to see BFG die t his year 🙁 hope this card seels a lot for them, but I cant buy it, even if I wanted. its not listed over here in Canada anywhere.
Well that was a right kick in the nuts for AMD there. stonking performance all round. This card would have dominated, but it seems far too late for me to be a big seller, especially with 6870 and 6850 about to hit the scene 🙁
If nvidia had gotten the 460 to launch in march/april it would be owning the market, sadly after a few months sales, id suspect they are startign to dry up now, with people hanging around for 6850/70. Too many mistakes for nvidia this year.
Oh yeah, the rest of their range sucks too, which isnt helping consumer confidence.
id still prefer the HD5870, but the pricing in the market is all over the place.
Lets have a look.
HD5870, great card but under pressure from 460. so it seems expensive.
HD5850, its getting whipped by 460
HD5830 – dead
HD5770 – big seller, good pricing
HD5670 – again, great media card, good seller
GTX480 – overpriced, too hot and the performance leader, but no one cares, apart from people out to break 3dmark scores.
GTX470 – dead
GTX465 – who cares
GTX460 – too late, but leading the way, making the 470 and 465 mean nothing anymore
GTS450 – crap
GT430 – overpriced and rubbish.
Pricing is all wrong with both sides ! Nvidia have the GTX460 priced too low and the other 450 and 430 too high !
just ordered the superclocked from scan. great price.
the 460 continues to surprise me great cards for their price
Just ordered one of these from Scan for just over £180. Gonna have to make up another PCI-e power cable as my 600w PSU only has one output for GFX. Simple job with a few molex connectors and a PCI-e plug. Will be interesting to see the improvement over my 8800GT 😉