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*Official OMG I got my 460 thread*

If vsync is enabled you wont get the squeel problems as it will cap your fps to the monitor refresh rate, which I tested with the gainward in riddick butcher bay menus. However I like to have vsync disabled for various reasons, easily put up with as you're not on a menu long.
 
BTW, these 460 cards have exceptional Physx performance, and you may not need a second card for physx. I played Batman Arkham Asylum on the Palit (overclocked to 800) with full detail and physx at max and the in-game benchmark showed an average of over 40fps.

Cryostasis - an incredibly unoptimised and demanding game, which doesn't run well on ANY graphics card - ran at an average 30fps with everything including Physx at max.

I must admit I'm severely tempted by that MSI card. I guess I'll wait for the reviews of the Gigabyte first though.
 
yea its only occt gpu test thats takes me near 80 degrees.. after an hour intensive COH (DX10 game all truned to ultra settings) the temp ever went above i think 62 degrees
 
Just going through the whole 460 / 5850 thing now myself.
Whichever I go for they will end up running water cooled at some point.
Can any of you guys have a look at the measurements for the mountings on the gpu of the 460 for me please?
 
Whats with the 460 heatsink/casing? Does any of the models use exhaust from the backplate design? Is this design only with the nvidia reference cards?? I see the gigabyte and msi models are obviously churning the air straight off the card into the case with their custom coolers.
I was thinking of getting two gtx 460s for sli but if i have 2 gpu's with their hot air circulating in the case then i may not bother.
 
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spoonjaffa said:
Whats with the 460 heatsink/casing? Does any of the models use exhaust from the backplate design? Is this design only with the nvidia reference cards?? I see the gigabyte and msi models are obviously churning the air straight off the card into the case with their custom coolers.
I was thinking of getting two gtx 460s for sli but if i have 2 gpu's with their hot air circulating in the case then i may not bother.
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The inno3d card exhausts heat through the backplate. It's very quiet and works well.
 
BassPwr said:
If vsync is enabled you wont get the squeel problems as it will cap your fps to the monitor refresh rate, which I tested with the gainward in riddick butcher bay menus. However I like to have vsync disabled for various reasons, easily put up with as you're not on a menu long.
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yeah i know i do make a lot of fuss about it, i also tend not to use vsync. its just that when i first ever heard that squeal coming from 88gts i thought the new card was defective, i catually returned it and asked for another lol, it feels like they just shouldnt do that full stop. Anyway the problem is pretty much taken care of now and my other concern (that the cooler would screw with general case cooling) is no problem either as 52C load temps.....wow just fantastic
 
Hopefully mines will come Monday as some companies just don,t honour their own delivery days even when your have paid for those days :rolleyes:
 
Looks like EVGA are the only manufacturer to use the backplate exhaust, the other designs (excluding msi,gigabyte and palit) use a reference design with a fan over the gpu and i cant see it pushing air onto the heatsink!? Can anyone confirm?
 
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EVGA's EE 1GB card is very noisy. Aparently the Sparkle 1GB card uses the reference cooler which exhausts air out of the case.

It's a shame that most of the manufacturers of the 1GB cards are no using the reference cooler design, which from all accounts is very quiet and has excellent cooling performance.
 
spoonjaffa said:
Looks like EVGA are the only manufacturer to use the backplate exhaust, the other designs (excluding msi,gigabyte and palit) use a reference design with a fan over the gpu and i cant see it pushing air onto the heatsink!? Can anyone confirm?
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Zotac and Inno3d also do rear exhaust versions. I've read that the Zotac is louder than the reference versions, however, a user here has the Inno3d, and he says it's quiet.
 
So i thought external exhaust cards require the fan furthest away from the the backplate and so pushes the air through the card and out the backplate.
How can the reference cooler push air directly on the gpu and not go out the back and front of the card?! Seems an odd design considering all previous generations have he correct external exhuast design.

Hmmm.. looking at the review of the EVGA external exhaust 460 shows the reference cooler is internal exhaust. All you boys getting two internal exhaust 460 cards for sli better have good case cooling.
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Edit: yea i see the zotac has an EE version as well as EVGA... will have a look.
 
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to anyone concerned by the lack of external exhaust on the gigabyte/mis coolers; i am using a antec 900 with two intake fans on the front and just the one large exhaust fan on top set to medium no other fans, at stock my cpu temps under prime havent changed coming from a gtx 260.

So if you are only planning to use one card (i cant speak regarding oc temps) then dont be concerned by the cooler design, i was slightly worried but the custom coolers ongig/msi models will be fine with decent case cooling.

i think that must just be down to the fact my gtx 260 could get upto 76C and 460 just runs so much cooler it is almost hard to believe, i have even noticed my room being much cooler after the pc has been on a while :)
 
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How can the reference cooler push air directly on the gpu and not go out the back and front of the card?! Seems an odd design considering all previous generations have he correct external exhuast design.
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I think that's the point of the reference design, to push air out the back and front of the card. Some gets exhausted out the case, and some out the front of the card where the voltage regulator stuff is.
 
460 on load get into the 70c area from reviews i've read.
Can someone confirm the reference cooler blow in or out. When I did test on a cpu with a heatsink fan blowing on the cpu it was noiably higher temps than if it sucks air away, like i said an odd design for reference 460 so i can understand msi and gigabyte creating a custom cooler.
 
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