460 DirectCU or Twin-Fan

I know EVGA and Galaxy cover overclocking...

Gigabyte's warranty starts the day the card is manufactured, not the day you purchase the product. That would be pretty lame, but it appears their warranty is three years... which is longer than most. In my search, I stumbled across this warranty horror story: http://www.overclock.net/amd-motherboards/761855-gigabyte-warranty-denial-third-time.html Yikes!

It was very difficult to find Gigabyte's warranty policy. This was the best I could do: http://rma.gigabyte.us/DirectRMA/EndUser_Main.asp. It makes no mention of overclocking... so you're probably covered.

I'll start searching for ASUS's, now.
 
ASUS doesn't print a warranty on their website for video cards... but they do for most other things they make:
http://support.asus.com.tw/repair/repair.aspx?no=481&SLanguage=en-us

The general consensus, online, is that ASUS covers overclocking.

But why worry about that? Galaxy posted, on this forum, they encourage overclocking and as long as you don't BURN the card, you're covered. BTW, unless someone has information indicating otherwise, not covering burned cards is done universally with AIB's. Even if you add a third party cooler, you only need to replace it with the stock cooler for warranty coverage.
 
are those 768mb cards because the links are not working? I believe you posted on the Anandtech forums too and you have a gtx260 and play at 1920. there is no reason to fool with getting the gtx460 768mb when you currently have a gtx260.
 
cannondale06 said:
are those 768mb cards because the links are not working? I believe you posted on the Anandtech forums too and you have a gtx260 and play at 1920. there is no reason to fool with getting the gtx460 768mb when you currently have a gtx260.
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"are those 768mb cards because the links are not working? I believe you posted on the Anandtech forums too and you have a gtx260 and play at 1920. there is no reason to fool with getting the gtx460 768mb when you currently have a gtx260."

There is, when my 260..
Is already sold...
Doesn't render video signal to my 60" DLP correctly... (I've narrowed it down to two things. Either the video card/or native HDMI support, or windows 7. I'm putting my money on the video card being why.)
 
icor1031 said:
There is, when my 260..
Is already sold...
Doesn't render video signal to my 60" DLP correctly... (I've narrowed it down to two things. Either the video card/or native HDMI support, or windows 7. I'm putting my money on the video card being why.)
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well if you need a new card then fine. I was just making sure that you were not trying to just "upgrade" form a gtx260 to a gtx460 768mb. ;)
 
Nah, not for the price difference. :) It will be nice though I bet. The 260 went 90º then hit 100% fan speed. I'm told the 460 will do more like 55-60.. And it's smaller, and it's supposed to OC well. :)
 
icor1031 said:
Nah, not for the price difference. :) It will be nice though I bet. The 260 went 90º then hit 100% fan speed. I'm told the 460 will do more like 55-60.. And it's smaller, and it's supposed to OC well. :)
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something was terribly wrong with your gtx260. even my old 65nm gtx260 highly overclocked never gets out of the 70s during gaming and fan stays at 40% pretty much the whole time.
 
icor1031 said:
That was on furmark.
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I just ran furmark for 10 minutes and hit 84 peak and basically stayed at 83 from then on and my fan was on auto and went to 61%. I put the fan on 100% and my temps dropped to 69 so again something is terribly wrong with your gtx260 if you are hitting 90 with your fan at 100%. heck I am in a warm room and run my case fans on just low.



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