1000/1200 easy on MSI GTX460 HAWK

[OCX600RR]

1GHz sounds sweet, and it's always fun to hit a great milestone.

But I'm wondering why all these good looking and great coolers on GTX460 insist on dumping the hot air inside the case. The Cyclone-cooler doesn't even try to hide it, but this HAWK cooler will dump the same amount of heir inside the case. I'm wondering why they couldn't seal it.

Well, I think the coolers that keep the air inside the case actually work much better than the enclosed designs with the blower fan at the end. This also gives the heatsink designers more area to work with, so in the end you'll have a larger heatsink/fan versus the enclosed designs, helping with temps.

I've always preferred the enclosed designs as well, but none of my other components are running any hotter with my new Cyclone 768MB card. Heck, it almost runs at the same temps at Load that my 9600GSO ran at idle (~50*C). Doing this while staying completely silent (65% fan locked).

To the OP - That is a fantastic card, hope (like many others), that the retail samples will clock just as well. Great job!

[Hazzan]

nice! can you run vantage X?

I will try later Sir ....see you in Taipe later

[bamtan2]

But I'm wondering why all these good looking and great coolers on GTX460 insist on dumping the hot air inside the case.

hot cards intended for mainstream buyers use the exhaust method because it is more fool-proof. the side effect is it does a crappier job than something like this frozr one.

what does fool-proof mean? go to hardocp on any given day and someone is complaining about a problem that will turn out to be from overheating because they're foolish. companies pay for this with support costs. the exhausting coolers save them money compared to the alternative.

but if you have any idea of what you're doing, and sometimes even if you don't, this frozr type of heatsink can be much better.

if you have a shuttle case with ty ventilation then maybe you want a blower exhauster. but a regular computer with two big fans on the back is more than capable of dealing with the <200W produced by the gtx 460.

I'm wondering why they couldn't seal it.

how is the air from two 80mm fans going to escape through one slot on the back? it can't, that's how. the fans would be spinning without moving air.

[sandy]

nice kang

[sandlewood]

1ghz for gpu look so easy
just waiting another higher gpu
congratz

[skankinred]

http://www.guru3d.com/news/msi-geforce-gtx-460-hawk/
This product will come with a custom PCB, from the looks of it follows the Military class component selection with the supa-dupa chokes and quality capacitors.
If you look at the tiny connectors to the right, these are voltage monitor points where you can tap voltage lines like GPU and memory.
notice that this card has eight chips thus is the slightly more difficult to overclock 32 ROPs 1024MB version

Hawk MSI Afterburner version:


I think the Cylone can handle 1.21v as well if you remove the cap in the bios. Not sure if it's safe for 24/7 operation or not though.

[xcaninox]

how about higher clocks!!

1k on core seems so easy..

i want this baby...really thinking in buy one. tell us how are the temps please, in furmark, in games, etc.. would be great anyway thank you!!

[SubZero.it]

Really great with stock voltage

[Johnny87au]

awesome scores mate! seems MSI really took it to another level with their 460's..

[Dani-boy]

# 31 how did you get +200 core voltage ? i can only give +100 with the 2.0.0 beta 6 and Hawk

[xcaninox]

# 31 how did you get +200 core voltage ? i can only give +100 with the 2.0.0 beta 6 and Hawk

u have to unlock your bios with FBE or NIBITOR PREMIUM VERSION, ket is unlocking the bios for us, talk to him..

i can unlock it for u too, if u want just PM me

[Lafas1987]

Very nice!

What is the GPU V Switch?

[bro20000]

Nice results mate!

[Ccaution]

Grats!

Seems quite a pick that card - c' mon LN2 it asap