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Michael C.

Michael C.

Joined on 02/09/11

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May The Force Be With You!

MSI GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N460GTX Twin Frozr II SOC
MSI GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N460GTX Twin Frozr II SOC

Pros: BLAZING FAST, Card Loves to be pushed harder with higher Detail settings and Resolutions, QUIET! Its more Quiet then my CPU and Case Fans, can't even hear it! BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK! Just as fast if not Faster Then an EVGA model, but for 40+ bucks cheaper! Free 3 Day Shipping, Card Arrived on the 2nd Day! Upgraded from a Winfast 7900 GS that i ran Overclocked. This Card More then Quadrupled the Peformance of my 7900 GS! Games I currently play: COD: Black Op's (Max Detail), SC2 (Max Detail), WoW (Almost Max Detail lol, I need more ram and a new processor), RE5 (Max Detail 71 Avg FPS, 49 Low FPS and 193 High FPS), COD:MW2, COD:MW, L4D1, L4D2, Doom 3 (Max Detail), HL2, CS Source. Only ones worth mentioning atm. Games without (notation) I haven't adjusted Visual Settings on yet. Games Load Faster namely Doom 3, COD: BO, and RE5 (Free's up a ton of Processing power) Its Nvidia! "The Way It's Meant To Be Played!" Need I say more? Deserves more then 5 Golden Eggs!

Cons: From the Farthest point of the Metal Tab that screws to the back of the PC Case, to the Farthest end of the Heat Sink Cover the Card Measures Exactly 10" (inches) but actual length when installed make sure you've got 9 3/4" Of Useable room to install Also add an 1/4" For easier wire placement for the Dual Power plug in's. Most mid size ATX and pretty much almost all Full Size ATX cases should have this covered. (Mine was Mid Size, bought this case back in 2002 and it fit perfectly fine no clearance issues) This might be an Issue for some so I felt it was important Mentioning! Also Card Requires 145 Watts to power it Again might be a problem for some but wasn't an Issue for me as I'm running a 700 Watt PSU. Card Covered 1/4 of my South Bridge chip fan on my motherboard but the clearance is perfect and the fan doesn't make any scratching or squealing noises, just make sure you have adequate Case Cooling and you'll be fine

Overall Review: The card at idle speeds and lower end gaming resolutions and graphics settings will Down clock itself to lower Temperatures and slow down the PWM (Pulse Width Modulated) Fans This is how the card operates at a solid 30* C at idle. I've seen it Jump no higher then 38*C at full on gaming (I live in the Desert part of CA, and I never Turn on the A/C so) Very solid Cooling system and Design. The Down Side is I found when Playing CoD: Black Op's on the lowest Visual settings my frame rates were lower and the game was a little more "Laggy" compared to when I turned up the Detail settings to Medium, High,etc. (higher settings the game ran smoother.) Found the card was staying down clocked on the lower graphics detail while Running COD: Black Op's, no big deal though More eye candy for me and its smoother! Running Factory Nvidia Drivers 266.58 No problems at all! Vista Ultimate SP2 4gb Ram Intel Core2Duo 6600 Nforce 5 Ultra Mobo Raid 0 2x150 gb 16mb buffer 7200 RPM Sata II Drives