sportwarrior
Limp Gawd
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465 is a mess of a card, from what I understand. 460 all the way.
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I JUST bought an EVGA version yesterday for 242 shipped from newegg. Came with Just Cause 2 at least. Anyways, the EVGA versions get the lowest temps, don't they? I could just overclock it to 850 mhz without any voltage mods.
Did a quick search and this looks like the right Asus card in the review:
http://tbreak.com/tech/2010/08/asus-engtx-460-1gb-review
Loud cooler and outperformed by a Zotac card. But it also refers to the $277 retail price.
I wanted an evga 1gb 460 at first, till I read how everyone hates the loud external exhaust design they went with.
Disappointing. I am on the fence on whether to do water cooling or air cooling for my next rig... Noisy video card coolers are a big reason I am interested in going for water cooling.
Did a quick search and this looks like the right Asus card in the review:
http://tbreak.com/tech/2010/08/asus-engtx-460-1gb-review
Loud cooler and outperformed by a Zotac card. But it also refers to the $277 retail price.
It's possible that the final version of the card has been overclocked even farther than just 775... If Amazon is correct, they've added another 25MHz to make it 800. ----- Or, maybe/probably Amazon has it wrong and it actually is 775. The specifications tab on this ASUS link (http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=UATIvdWePp9oPSIk&templete=2) still shows it at 775 / 4000.
So let me get this straight... the 460 trumps the 465? I was under the assumption that you could unlock the 465 to a 470 pretty much unlocking the cuda cores and potentially the extra memory from 1gb to 1.2gb (depending on the card). Also it looks like the 460 is a new revision of Fermi that cuts out a lot of the gpgpu junk, which is probably why its cooler, but its number crunching is not as good.... just curious if this is actually useful in real life or a Nvidia marketing gizmo. But I do like the price
The question then is: would you pay $20 more from newegg and have it shipped immediately?
Guru3D's really good about their noise tests and the Gigabyte's the quietest, so I'm really wondering if this single fan can keep the volume down. Would be really nice for someone to come back in here and tell us how loud it gets @ stock, oced w/ stock volts, and oced w/ upped volts. Even better would be a comparison to their previous card.I guess I will buy a card with the review that says "dam, this thing is quiet, cool, and fast!".
Guru3D's really good about their noise tests and the Gigabyte's the quietest, so I'm really wondering if this single fan can keep the volume down. Would be really nice for someone to come back in here and tell us how loud it gets @ stock, oced w/ stock volts, and oced w/ upped volts. Even better would be a comparison to their previous card.
EDIT: NM, the Tbreak review lists their card @ 775Mhz and 1GB w/ the blue cooler, so it's definitely the same one as amazon. What's worse?
"And then we have the fan noise. At factory settings, the ASUS ENTGX460 1GB makes a distinctly audible noise when under pressure compared to the Zotac GTX 460 1GB card. While overclocked, the ENGTX460 was ridiculously loud, the fan overstressed and I was worried that something will blow up."
And here's what Guru3D has to say about the exact same Zotac w/ external exhaust:
"Zotac GTX 460 1024MB - Though the cooler looks nice, it was also the noisiest we have tested. Temps remained under control quite well but the card definitely can be heard when it is fully stressed for a longer timeframe. Not bothersome, but definitely not as silent as any of the other cards tested."
...and the Gigabyte.
"Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 768MB - The cooling design is excellent. It allows the card to come pre-overclocked yet keeps the card incredibly silent yet within very lovely noise levels, as you cannot hear this card whatsoever. Even overclocked this card will amaze you in both cooling performance and noise levels (in a positive fashion of course)."
Unless the fan on Tbreak's Asus flipped out, we might have a pretty big con here. Neato looking coolers, high overclocks, and easy overvolting are great to have, but none are greater than silence IMO.
Dude, that doesn't seem like the same card. The review has the card at 775MHz Core and 1000MHz Memory. The card on amazon is at 800 MHz.
exclusively produced with DirectCU thermal design for 20% cooler operation
I feel like I'm almost talking to myself now in this thread, but whatever... good way to collect my thoughts, haha.
I left a comment to the writer of that Benchmark Reviews piece asking him specifically about fan noise. He replied that "As far as fan noise, there almost wasn't any to speak of. I tested the games in a case with an open side, and could barely hear the fan. With the case closed for temperature tests, I couldn't hear it at all." Hopefully that puts people's noise concerns to rest, or at least eases them a bit.
Just wanted to summarize the info available for future readers.Pretty long post considering it sounds like your mind is already made up on the asus.
Just wanted to summarize the info available for future readers.
Let's say the fan is loud. What's stopping anyone from going nuts w/ some zipties and 120's?