totally agreed..Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
this is a thing i always wanted to know... do you guys think the special versions like MSI HAWK and ASUS MARS have hand-picked GPUs? or just normal GPUs? :shrug:
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totally agreed..Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
this is a thing i always wanted to know... do you guys think the special versions like MSI HAWK and ASUS MARS have hand-picked GPUs? or just normal GPUs? :shrug:
If you read the news thread on the MSI Hawk, you will see that we think that they have better quality PCBs and cooling, however the GPUs are not cherry picked. Review samples are cherry picked, the ones that are released to the public are jut normal binned ones with the same random luck for overclocking.
So I dont think its worth buying the Hawk over the Cyclone (£40 price difference), also that I Game version would make a much better buy as it is guaranteed to run at 900 Mhz, and possibly even 5000 Mhz ram, but its only being released in Asia.
My card is pure :banana::banana::banana::banana:. It barely does 820mhz stable, and for that I need 1.062v. I tried diong 825mhz today, even with a voltage bump to 1.075 and it still locks up. I truly have the worst GTX 460 out of the hundreds I have read about all over the net. Extremely disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
i agree its also 785 they should bin it on 900 to demostrate thats a good oneQuote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
No ,got some artifacts after some tests.Quote:
Originally Posted by andressergio
This looks stable,check out the load temp!
great mate ! i love this MSI soon as my mobo arrives i will go for 2 in SLIQuote:
Originally Posted by dafour
:shocked: damn gaul that looks cooledQuote:
Originally Posted by Gaul
Yups.....Quote:
Originally Posted by andressergio
iGAME ROCKS and COOL :up:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/2408/90284230.jpg
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/9296/61292310.jpg
Nice model!!!
Can't wait to see it's OC'ing capability!
Pair of MSI Hawks - i7 920@3.8, Win 7 x64.
Stock
http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/x...tage_29600.jpg
Pushed
http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/x...tage_32516.jpg
sparkle ref design (stock cooling) except heatsink on VRM
950/2150
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7...7999605262.jpg
gainward GS (stock cooling) except heatsink on VRM
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7...8373589540.jpg
How high are VRM temps on reference design card with high OC?Quote:
Originally Posted by pvhk
Ive seen 58c here with a simple meter just hanging next to it.
got another hawk...I'd say save your money and get a reference one. Second piece of shit I've had the insurmountable displeasure in using.
*edit* Great! The card just imploded around the VRM's with only +70mv. STAY AWAY...VERY VERY FAR AWAY from these sad things.
Lol I'm on my 3rd set of cards now :/ .. First had the gigabytes then evga oced versions and now i have the msi cyclones coming in :) .. Gigabytes were awesome ! Just no full cover waterblocks for them ... Evgas? I'm not impressed with at all .. Msi? Well , I'm gonna find out shortly and plus I can put on full cover water blocks on them . Will have a vantage score this week sometime with the msi in sli mode on air ..
im going for the cyclones a simple design maybe not the greatest OC of all, but at 850 core will do the job in SLI an as open cards they are you can put a fan near and thats it or even put some enzotech ramsinks over the vrm zone
talking to a friend thats an Electronic Ing he said that prolly the vrm are soldered over a copper flat surface over the PCB to disipate as if you zoom that zone you can see something under the chips, i think just the problem becomes on going over 1.1+
cheers all
Sergio
any shots of those exploded VRM NCspecV81? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by NCspecV81
not taking hte card apart so I can rma/get refunded.
Meaning PCB layout is the same as reference? Are you sure of that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aedubber
Positive , if you look at the pcb design it's the same as other cards that the EK fullcover waterblocks can go on .. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by @lex
evga , sparkle , msi , nvidia , zotach , and a few others all have the same pcb
Hey guys anyone tested the 2GB version of the Palit GTX460 ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814261077
reviews of newegg complain on heat, maybe the added 1GB of extra mem ?
oc capability???Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaul
temps???
reviews??
where buy it