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Overall Review: Other reviews state that using a GTX 460 covers the sata ports. I would like to mention that is not the case if you use Palit GTX 460 cards. I have 2 in SLI and the second card doesnt come anywhere near the SATA ports. Palit GTX 460 cards are smaller and rock the pants off any game I throw at it. MB: MSI P67A-G45 RAM: 4 x 2GB Patriot 1600 CPU: Intel i5 2500k Video: 2 x Palit GTX 460 in SLI Power: Thermaltake 850W Case: Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced

Pros: Temps: Stays cool. My cpu sits between 29C and 32C using the stock heatsink and fan. Keep in mind I have 3 exhaust fans and 3 fans that suck in air through the case. Performance: No lag on on Starcraft 2 (heavily dependent on CPU). Windows boots up so fast its unreal and thats with a 5400rpm hard drive. Even when gaming this processor does not go past 45C. I have overclocked to 4.0GHZ temporarily and temps never went past 45C while gaming.

Cons: Seriously? ... none come to mind

Overall Review: MB: MSI P67A-G45 RAM: 4 x 2GB Patriot 1600 CPU: 15 2500k Video: 2 x Palit GTX 460 in SLI Power: Thermaltake 850W Case: Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced

Pros: Performance: Fantastic! When I had only one card, I could max all settings on Starcraft 2, FFXIV, Assasins Creed, Star Wars TFU2, etc... FPS stays well above 30 FPS. I later bought another to SLI just to be ready for tesselation (DX11) as that requires more GPU power. Overclockability: Cards come stock 700/1400/1800. I bumped them up to 800/1600/2000 and they run flawless with temps never exceeding 65C under full load. SLI: Both cards in SLI and it rocks the pants off the Unigine DX11 benchmark. Final Fantasy XIV, Mafia 2, Asassins Creed, Star Wars TFU2, and other software @ 1920x1080 w/AF16x and AA8x runs flawless. Even using a single card ran the games fine. Size: Both cards fit in my MSI P67A-G45 motherboard without blocking the SATA ports. This card is the smallest GTX460 out there!!! The MSI motherboard I mentioned is 1 inch smaller than the standard ATX size also.

Cons: Temps: The only con is the temps without using a fan profile from MSI Afterburner or similar program. Fans: As for the fan problems I am reading about, don't push your fan to 100% and watch for wires that are hanging around your computer case. I haven't had any problems but if the fan blades are as weak as I am reading, I would say just tuck the wires away in your case and make sure nothing can obstruct the fan blades path.

Overall Review: Card idles @ 35C-40C. I don't like that. Under full load it hits 70C. I don't like that either. Although other forums says this is normal and is no big deal, I prefer my card to idle < 35C and under full load < 65C. I'm an electrical engineer and understand that those temps are below the rated temps for the card but I would like my cards to last a long time. After modifying my fan profile in MSI Afterburner, the card idles @ 30C +/-3C and stays around 55C +/-5C while gaming at 1920x1080 with max settings on all my games. My profile is as follows 55% Fan Speed @ 35C 65% Fan Speed @ 55C 75% Fan Speed @ 65C No need for 100% fan speed to keep cool like other cards!!! 2 GTX 460's in SLI does not perform well on Starcraft 2 atm. The game runs perfect without SLI but it is annoying that I have to disable SLI everytime I play this game. Nvidia and/or Blizzard, please resolve this issue.

Pros: Awesome motherboard! Recognized my DDR3 1600 RAM immediately. You have to enable XMP profile in the BIOS but no need to tweak voltages or anything. Overclocking is so simple. I just changed the multiplier with no adjustments to voltage and BAM!!! gone from 3.33GHz to 4.0GHz and system is stable. Other people have gone as far as 4.5GHz on air but I'm not going to do that... yet! Although the documentation included with this motherboard makes no mention of SLI support and various websites listing the SLI support as N/A, MSI customer support told me this board supports SLI

Cons: Documentation is misleading. Why emphasize advertising on Crossfire capability and make no mention of SLI? Other websites list this board as not supporting SLI yet when I contacted MSI about why the documentation and the print "True PCI-E 2.0 SLI & Crossfire" on the motherboard conflict, their representative told me the motherboard does support SLI. I removed 1 egg from the rating because of the misleading documentation.

Overall Review: BIOS screen is colorful and detected my USB mouse with no problems. My build is as follows CPU: i5-2500k RAM: Patriot DDR3 1600 Video: Palit Nvidia GeForce GTX460 1GB SONIC PS: 850W OS: Windows 7