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MSI: *Offical* N460GTX Hawk 1GB OC Edition thread

Just got mine installed last night and first impressions are good. Only had about half an hour to spare but the difference between my old 8800GT and this are very nice.

Only problem so far is how good looking this card is, it puts the rest of my components to shame :). Ah well, guess I'll just have to buy a new cpu, mb, ram and case next year.

Absolute steal at £154 :). Thanks OcUK!
 
Wish I waited the couple weeks longer. Paid £180 and then it died on me mid game. No post with it installed. I'm just waiting on the replacement being sent now, would be nice if they sent the Talon Attack instead as that is now the same price. Meh...

Has anyone else noticed the 2 'dip' switch on the reverse side of the board? On a small gray cuboid with a thin brown translucent film on it. Near the power connectors. The text near it reads 'Xtreme Cool OCP Unlocker'. I took a photo before sending back if you want to see it.

Edit:
A quick 'generic search engine goes here' search later finds this:

http://www.odoc.dk/default.asp?Action=Details&Item=446
 
SteveB said:
Wish I waited the couple weeks longer. Paid £180 and then it died on me mid game. No post with it installed. I'm just waiting on the replacement being sent now, would be nice if they sent the Talon Attack instead as that is now the same price. Meh...

Has anyone else noticed the 2 'dip' switch on the reverse side of the board? On a small gray cuboid with a thin brown translucent film on it. Near the power connectors. The text near it reads 'Xtreme Cool OCP Unlocker'. I took a photo before sending back if you want to see it.

Edit:
A quick 'generic search engine goes here' search later finds this:

http://www.odoc.dk/default.asp?Action=Details&Item=446
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Try having bought one one they first came out (IE. £223!).

Regarding the dip switches on the back. I would fiddle with those at your own risk! There's a post on the Guru3D forums about these (the Afterburner sub-forum if interested). They remove certain restrictions voltage wise I seem to remember.

Quote:
"Only for extrem OC !

OCP Unlock Switch: Remove overcurrent Protection.

XtremeCool Switch: Dedicated switch to solve cold bug for LN2 extreme overclocking.

Use of it may result in loss of warranty coverage. Damage caused by it will not be covered under warranty. ->http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=faq2show&faq_no=2322 "

EDit. Here is the thread http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=332406
 
Yes, I think I'll be leaving those alone then. I should probably not look at the prices of something after I've bought one.
Hopefully the new one will clock better *fingers crossed*. :)
 
Well on the plus side my new Hawk seems to run cooler than the previous. Only hits 48°C whilst playing COD Black Ops, which doesn't appear to push the card very hard. Got it up to 64°C using OCCT under standard clocks/fan profile. I'm yet to try max clocks or any other tweaking.

Anyone else find the standard fan profile to be a bit too aggresive? I've set a nice fan profile in Afterburner where it keeps the fan at 40% until 40°C rising to 50% at 55°C and so on.
 
SteveB said:
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Anyone else find the standard fan profile to be a bit too aggresive? .
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Indeed.

One of the first comments I made on this thread.

MSI were obviously focused on keeping the temps below 60C (selling feature you see).

I've found that you can drop the fan speed to around 50% and it still keeps it more than cool in gaming.

Edit. Well post no. #41 actually.
Quote "Though can't help but think that the fan profile on Auto setting looks a little aggressive."
 
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robgmun

Looking good.

Couple of questions fi you don't mind (just being nosey):

- Is this with the cards at stock speeds?
- Is PhysX off, or on?
- And what's the rest of your system spec?
 
- Yes, stock speeds (after what happened in Furmark i'm scared to OC them)
- PhysX on, or i think it is, it's just set it to the default Auto in the control panel, i haven't touched it after install

- Intel Q6850 @ 3.33Ghz
- 8Gb RAM DDR2 800 (2Gb x 4)
- W7 64-Bit
- 2 x WD 160 Gb Raptors in RAID 0
- DELL 680SLi motherboard
- DELL 1000w PSU
 
One of the cards went to 98-99c, this is not the cards fault it's totally because theres very little room in my case now. But in all other bench marks it never went over 80c
 
Hi all,just bought MSI GTX460 Talon,already received it (strange,it was only 2 days with DPD,i am in Ireland,so they delivered extremely fast..for some reason ;) )
Gonna swap my old,good,trustworthy Asus 8800GTX (yes,still used it till today,and its actualy very good at everything,exept Metro 2033) to new MSI GTX460 Talon.
After those "new" amd 69xx series failed to impress me,decided to go with not so expensive vga.
Will post my thoughts later
 
"Why i'm i the only one posting scores?? "

Myself... I've somewhat lost interest in Graphics cards at the moment. There's been so many new releases in the last few months, I think I'm suffering from GCOS (Graphics Card Overload Syndrome).

My single HAWK (clocked as below) scored 18,402 in Vantage (default settings).

I've also put any idea of a re-build and possibly SLI off until Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer are out and reviewed / bedded in. To be totally honest, nothing I'm currently playing or have sat on the back burner, are even pushing my current set up at 1920x1080! So can't see any point in any more upgrades for a while. Always nice to get new kit, but the SSD I bought last month will be the last upgrade for a while me thinks.

Have a good Christmas and New Year.

:):):)
 
razer1978 said:
I'm looking forward to getting a pair of these after xmas :D i'll post some pics and benchmarks when i get them
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I'll be interested to hear your opinion and see your results when you do. One of things that is making me think twice about SLI on these cards, is the spacing (or lack of it) for double width graphics cards on a lot of motherboards.
 
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