ASUS, EVGA, Zotac GeForce GTX 460 Cards Overclocked and Reviewed

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• ClownPuncher - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  $460 vs $580 you mean! Though, for a 2 card setup, I would say getting a pair of gtx460 is a no brainer at this point.

• tviceman - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  Both AMD and Nvidia have released several updated drivers with performance improvements since the gtx400 series came out. It would be nice if you guys could do a benchmark review of Nvidia's 400 series cards vs. AMD's 5000 series all using the latest drivers so all your readers (including me) can get a clear picture of how each card stands with the most updated drivers.

• tviceman - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  It would be a great, informative article - a very informative article focusing on performance and high end parts with as updated as possible drivers and a quick overview of current prices.

• Etern205 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  One possible reason why Zotac's attempt at HD5850's cooling at failed is the HD5850 isn't reference cooling doesn't really blow hot air out of the case. If you take a look at a reference card, there will be 2 slit vents located at the top of the card, which also lets hot air out and back into the case.
  
  Here is a picture of it
  http://yfrog.com/j8hd5850dj

• Etern205 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  Sorry, link is not working...
  Correct link
  
  http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/516/hd5850d.jpg

• setzer - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  One question, why still use the 10.3a drivers? Even if you say performance hasn't changed (part 1), it's only fit to compare latest drivers to latest drivers.

• d4a2n0k - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  Because they just use the numbers from previous benchmarks and those were the drivers used at that time.

• Ryan Smith - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  Basically this. I do spot checking on new drivers to find performance differences, but I don't run every last test on every last card on every driver (a full NV+AMD rebench is over a weeks' labor). For that reason 10.3a is listed since that's the driver version those numbers came from. Listing 10.6 would be dishonest even if the numbers are the same as we haven't tested every single configuration with 10.6.

• tviceman - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link

  Which is why it would be great to get a re-evaluation of both AMD's 5800 series and Nvidia's 40 series all with the latest drivers. Both camps have released come out with several driver revisions stating mild to moderate performance gains in many of today's games. It would give an excellent indication as to how far both camps have come along since they released their cards, and most important it would give a more clear indication as to how performance is right now, as opposed to recycling months old benchmarks.

• Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - link

  The numbers from the 10.3a drivers are still accurate for the 10.6 drivers. Or in other words, the performance "right now" is the same.