Preface: This thread isn't for 1gb 460 owners, or other similar GPUs. It's hard to find consistent info on the 768mb 460 SLI combo, so THAT's what I'm interested in, not other GPUs that bear a passing resemblance or people stopping in just to talk crap about the 768mb frame buffer.
A couple weeks ago an opportunity came up. My friend had bought two EVGA GTX 460 SC 768mb cards, he had them in SLI in his first new rig build in a few years. I chided him for his purchase, as it seems to be kinda well-known that this isn't all that great of an SLI combo for a lot of reasons.
But he's selling a bunch of hardware, as am I... and he told me that $130 (friend's discount) would get me both of his 460s.
Hm.
I promptly sold a PSU and my HD 5830 and picked them up.
Why? I had to sell all the GPUs I had laying around (and downgrade to my 920/5000-capable HD 5830) as well as my CPU (4.0-capable x6 1055t, downgraded to unlockable x3 720BE) and my LCD (24" 19x10, downgraded to my 26" 720p/1080i TV)... so to me this appears to be a decent re-upgrade, especially after using a 580, 570 and a 570 SLI setup for a while.
Now, I get the fact that this SLI setup is a bit gimped, almost completely due to the 768mb frame buffer... but there's a lot of raw performance there, and as long as I max out at 19x10, and don't use the craziest of AA modes I should be fine.
These two EVGA SC cards are stock right now... no extra heatsinks on the VRMs, and for now I'm running them at 810/4000 @ 1.050v... after improving the cooling setups I'd like to up the voltage and clocks some more.
GTX 460 768mb SLI reviews:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=25665&page=1
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/34...ked/index.html
http://benchmarkextreme.com/Articles...ALYSIS/P1.html
Overall it seems that two of these cards really doesn't perform all that bad, quite often entering into GTX 580 territory. My experiences thus far have been fairly consistent with the reviews, but my OS install is old and has been through a few reviews of its own... so I need to do a clean re-install ASAP. For $130, I don't think the performance can be beat.
I know this isn't a common SLI setup, but this is XS and there's a lot of diversity here... so I'd like to get some feedback from the few other SLI 460 768 owners around here. So please check in here, raise your hand, and tell me what you've done to your cards, how they're running, and how much you like/don't like them.
Thanks!
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