GTX 460 first review

[Sempron Guy]

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MSI GTX 460 HAWK 1 GB review

MSI's GeForce GTX 460 HAWK is rock solid version of a factory overclocked GTX 460 card. Thanks to MSI's clock speeds of 781 MHz GPU and 900 Memory memory, the card delivers about 10% more performance than a reference design GTX 460 with 1 GB of memory. If this is not enough for you, then you can engage in some manual overclocking to get the last out of the card. MSI has added a couple of extra features here. Instead of only GPU voltage control like on the reference designs, MSI lets you change GPU voltage, memory voltage and PLL voltage. While this sounds great on paper, the actual ranges you can adjust are fairly small and I could not see any gains from adjusting PLL voltage. However, every available option to change something can help and considering the reasonable price of the card it is a welcome addition.
We have seen the Twin Frozr II cooler on other MSI cards before and generally liked it - when the fan settings in the BIOS were optimized for it. This is the case on the MSI GTX 460 HAWK too. The card is quiet in both idle and load which makes it a worthy choice if you are looking for something that can power your media PC without much noise and still have enough power to play all current titles at HD resolutions with decent settings.
As mentioned before, the MSI N460GTX Hawk comes at a fair $249 which is in line with a 10% performance improvement over the reference design which costs $229. If you are after the best bang for the back, then the 768 MB version of the GTX 460 should be worth checking out.

Looking at the results, it beats the HD5850 on almost half of the games tested and performing close on games where the HD5850 shows the upperhand. In other words, its just an overclock away from beating the HD5850.

Compile nako ang results:
Res. 1680x1050, maxxed on all games

--------------------------MSI GTX 460 1GB-------------HD5850 (reference)------Winner
Alien vs Predator--------------30fps----------------------31fps-------------------HD5850
Battlefield BC 2---------------59.9fps---------------------58.3fps-------------------GTX460
Battleforge-------------------48fps-----------------------48.3fps-------------------HD5850
Call of Duty 4-----------------123fps---------------------114.8fps------------------GTX460
Call of Juarez 2---------------114.1fps--------------------107.6fps------------------GTX460
Crysis-------------------------29.5fps---------------------34.2fps------------------HD5850
Dawn of War 2----------------104.7fps-------------------117.8fps------------------HD5850
Dirt2-------------------------77.3fps----------------------86.5fps------------------HD5850
Far Cry 2---------------------94.4fps----------------------69.7fps------------------GTX460
HAWK------------------------121.1fps---------------------97.2fps------------------GTX460
Metro 2033--------------------26.3fps---------------------23.9fps------------------GTX460
Riddick: Dark Athena-----------52.5fps---------------------65.9fps------------------HD5850
Stalker: Clear Sky--------------44.6fps---------------------46.6fps------------------HD5850
Supreme Commander 2---------87.4fps---------------------82.7fps------------------GTX460
Unreal Tournament 3-----------182fps----------------------153.4fps----------------GTX460
World of Warcraft--------------113fps----------------------101.6fps----------------GTX 460

Out of 18 games, the GTX 460 won 9, 5 games won by the HD5850 by a 1-2fps lead.

Price:
MSI GTX 460 1GB Hawk - $229
cheapest HD5850 - $269

Power consumption @ load:

MSI GTX 460 1GB Hawk - 187w
HD5850 - 150w

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/M...0_HAWK/26.html

[Kibir_Tidibir]

108 watts ra ang power consumption sa 5850 bai? pila gani to sa 5770?

[colourds]

kanusa pa kaha ni ma available sa cebu? ^^

kita kog 480 ganiha sa cebu apliance center 2nd floor nils atbang unitap duul uc...gf480 nka sli.....mura kog nakakitag santos.....ilaha ra hinuun k display whole rig mn gyud to nya nka open ang panel sa rig makita nimu nga pang gaming gyud 2 nga rig to the max...

so i think available maning 460 order basis lng gyud.

[e_mer8]

kita kog 480 ganiha sa cebu apliance center 2nd floor nils atbang unitap duul uc...gf480 nka sli.....mura kog nakakitag santos.....ilaha ra hinuun k display whole rig mn gyud to nya nka open ang panel sa rig makita nimu nga pang gaming gyud 2 nga rig to the max...

so i think available maning 460 order basis lng gyud.

Kang master Andz to imong nakita. Try ordera sa iyaha ang 460 basin naa siya.

[Sempron Guy]

@kibir

edit na nako bro, sayop ko pagtan-aw