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The Gigabyte GTX460 OC is a mega gaming card and in SLI they become a potent powerhouse, capable of delivering a high level of frame rates with any modern day engine. The Gigabyte cards have many benefits over the reference solution, the most noticeable being the fantastic cooling solution which delivers sub 60c load results while generating a low level of noise.
With manual overclocking we were happily surprised to see the GTX 460's almost hanging onto performance levels that a HD5870 CFx solution was delivering. Sure they weren't quite as fast but considering two of them cost £350 in the UK right now and two HD5870's will set you back over £600 then it certainly seems like a fantastic value for money proposition. We don't think there is a better performance to cost ratio on the market today.
Negatively, these cards have clearly got huge overclocking potential and both our samples hit 1000mhz memory or over, so why not sell them with a higher reference clock speed? We really don't understand the logic, because the cooler is clearly very capable.
We love the GTX 460 – the combination of high performance, low noise, moderate power drain and exceptional overclocking capabilities mean that in the sub £200 bracket this is the card to get. We like the Gigabyte card because the cooler is a much superior solution to the reference board and probably one of the best on the market. The MSI Cyclone might still have the edge, but it is close.
KitGuru says: If you have £180 to spend right then you are spolit for choice, really what you need to be selecting is the GTX460 with the best cooler and this Gigabyte card is right at the top of the pile.
That is a fantastic board. SLi scaling is impressive, always has been.
Good all round boards, but I keep wondering if it is just too little to late. rumours on the net say ATIs next solutions are out in a months time.
I love the 460, only card from nvidia ive rated in 2 years. 450 not so much.
SLI performance is strong. these cards overclock liike crazy
ermm dont these seem a bit expensive compared to 460s at 145-150 ?
the cheaper models are normally 768mb versions though, not worth picking up
I still think the HD5850 is a better buy. its faster and with AMD you get better drivers and support.
5850 is priced higher + not always faster card, thus not the best buy… yet…
I agree with Jordan – HD5850 is quite a bit more expensive still.
Unless you get a HD5850 on a sale deal, its costing more. and if you manually OC these 460s you get HD5850 performance anyway. thats the whole selling point from nvidia.
Nvidia re panicing tho. they know ATis new cards are coming soon. its a reduced sale to sell as many cards as possible before everyone goes back to ATi.
everyone needs to stop calling them ATI 😉 that name is no more. unfortunately
lol yeah, i dont think anyone cares about the name change
AMD better pull their socks up some and get their new cards to market since the GTX 460’s in SLI are so close to 5870 in Crossfire for half the price