My GTX 460 2Win review

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2011/03/25 20:00:09 (permalink)
I received this card today and what follows here is a quick down and dirty review.  I have not tried to OC the card yet so everything here is stock and I'm sure that everything will improve as I move forward.  In any event here we go.  I also have a GTX 580 SC so I will compare everything against that card at "stock" settings.  The most recent driver that works for the GTX 460 2Win is the 266.58, so the two newer versions do not see the card, additionally, 3DMark calls it "Generic".
 
The first thing I'll say is that black plastic cover, IS NOT PLASTIC, it is metal and EXTREMELY nice.  It gives the card a great feel and it really makes me wonder where that twin fan card is, and what that card is...I'm adding new cards to my setup and that might be one I'd like to put into the setup somewhere.   BTW, the lit EVGA logo on top of the card is a nice touch as well.  Congratz to EVGA on a well made card   I've noticed as the day has gone on and I've stress the card more, the temps are coming down.  I was folding in the 80s earlier today and now I'm 69 on one and 73 on the other.  The fans are really quiet up until about 60% then you start to hear them, and they can get fairly loud at 100%, of course with the card at 84C the fans are at 46%ish and you don't hear them.  I did not notice a rise in my CPU temps with this card and I don't have a great airflow case in the Corsair 800D, of course I've worked pretty hard to get the airflow to be better than normal.
 
Benchmarks:
3DMark11:
GTX460 2Win: P6069 and X2042
GTX 580SC: P6222 and X2041
 
Vantage:
GTX460 2Win: 30,875
GTX 580SC: 31,386
 
3DMark 06:
GTX460 2Win: 27,516
GTX580SC: 27,570
 
So you see that this card hangs with a 580SC on the bench marks, both at stock.  I've only played two games so far I run a 24" monitor with my res at 1920X1080P.  Most the settings are cranked up near the top, but not everything there.
  1. Homefront - I average around 62 FPS with the 580SC.  It appears that the drivers do not support the SLI for this game as Precision is telling me I am between 35 and 40 FPS.  But it doesn't feel like that, it feels the same as the 580SC, so I don't know if there is a misreport some where or if was just enough that I really didn't notice the difference;
  2. Metro 2033 - This game is brutal on cards, with the 580SC I bounce between 48 and 60 FPS.  With the GTX460 2Win, the FPS are similar at 50 to 62.  
Lastly, Folding, which is really hard on cards.  On a 580SC I average 17-18K Points Per Day.  With the GTX460 2Win, I'm pulling PPD of 22-26K, so a large increase, but that was expected due to all the extra cores.
 
I know that you can't SLI this card, etc. But if you're looking for a single card with great performance (matches a 580SC) for $80 less, this is the card.
 
Let me know if you have any questions.  Once I play a little with the OC, I'll report back.
 
EDIT: updated OC results below.
post edited by DeepPurple23 - 2011/03/27 08:13:14


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/25 20:05:43 (permalink)
    What's the specs of the system you tested the cards in?

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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/25 20:18:52 (permalink)
    It's my main rig, so a i7 970 OC'd to 4.1 GHz with 6GB of RAM at 2000 (well close to 2000).  The MB is a EVGA Classy 3, this way I was hoping that the system didn't cause any bottlenecks for the cards.


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/25 20:54:23 (permalink)
    Nice man! thanks for the review! really considering getting this card now. 

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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/26 00:11:43 (permalink)
    thx for the info looks like a nice gpu
     
    but the part off that you cant sli this cart made me not buy it
    and it shut be a dual 560 not a dual 460
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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/26 04:45:33 (permalink)
    It's interesting in that the box comes with a flyer that states you can't SLI.  Jacob has stated that maybe at some point in the future but I'm guessing its a legal thing with Nvidia not anything else.  For me the computer that it is going into can't SLI any way, so it works.


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/26 21:33:50 (permalink)
    Got any pics of the card to show us?

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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/27 06:22:09 (permalink)


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/27 08:12:46 (permalink)
    Hog, nice youtube vid.
     
    Here are some pics:

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    I've done some OC'ing  and I'll post those results next.  It's very good. 


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/27 08:22:19 (permalink)
    Here are some early OC'ing results.  BTW, this card OCs fantastic, I'm not sure why they produced it at a clock of 700.  I'm not overly experienced in GPU OC'ing so I was pretty careful with the memory clock.
     
    I didn't push the OC until failure so I'm guessing there is still room, OC Scanner gives me 0 artifacts at these clocks. Brackets indicate default settings.
     
    OC 1:
    Core: 765 (700)
    Shader: 1530 (1401)
    Memory: 1811 (1800)
     
    OC 2:
    Core: 800 (700)
    Shader: 1600 (1401)
    Memory: 1830 (1800)
     
    OC 1 benchmarks:
    Mark 11: P6475 and X2194
    Vantage: 32,460
    Mark06: 27,651
     
    OC 2 Benchmarks:
    Mark 11: P6702 and X2271 
    Vantage: 33,467
    Mark06: 27,745
     
    I didn't run the other benchmarks as I had some games to play.   But that being said, you can see this card overclocks very well and performs like a champ.  I'm loving this card more every day. 
     
    EDIT: I've added the other benchmarks.
    post edited by DeepPurple23 - 2011/03/27 09:45:41


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/27 09:09:25 (permalink)
    Nice card, but if I recall isn't this suppose to beat the 580?
    As EVGA stated.
    http://www.evga.com/articles/00613/


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/27 09:22:48 (permalink)
    bvsbutthd101

    Nice card, but if I recall isn't this suppose to beat the 580?
    As EVGA stated.
    http://www.evga.com/articles/00613/

     Yes, it will beat a GTX 580, but I'm comparing it to a GTX 580SC.  So it appears it will fall in between the 580 and 580SC.
    post edited by DeepPurple23 - 2011/03/27 09:46:09


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/27 09:34:34 (permalink)
    Ah, I see


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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/03/31 19:37:59 (permalink)
    waaahhhh! I wonder if somebody hacked this to quad-SLI it hehehe

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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/04/01 05:46:54 (permalink)
    Seems to be a nice card, hopefully the shape of things to come from evga. Shame its not reasonably priced.

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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/04/01 09:02:54 (permalink)
    "Shame its not reasonably priced."
     
    "But if you're looking for a single card with great performance (matches a 580SC) for $80 less, this is the card. "

     
     
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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2011/05/26 01:50:14 (permalink)
    how did you get those scores imhaving trouble getting good scores on 3dmark 06 .... i only get 20000 or so on the 2win and was getting around 19000 on a single gtx 460..  **** i have a gtx 460 2win  amd phenom x4 965 oc to 3.8 ghz oc the 2win to 820 mhz   8 gigs of ram windows 7 premium.   i had to install the sli patch to get nvidia control panel to recoginize sli setup. i get a littlemore than 6000 in 3dmark 2011.most games i play get almost double the frames when playing.   so what gives...
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    Re:My GTX 460 2Win review 2012/09/20 06:27:49 (permalink)
    i bought one of these cards a month a go and the first card would install but one of the GPUs would come up with a yello exclamation point on it error code 43
    i tried everything in the book and not even the nvidia drivers would come up saying that i dont have a nvidia gpu working on this board! so i did my first and i do need to say painless RMA everything went great for the rma except i got another card and it did the same thing!!! so i called again to tech support and the first guy i talked with didnt seam like he was well enough informed to help me out with things so he sent me to TECH SUPPORT LEVEL 2.
    once i got there i was advised that this card will not work on my motherboard because my mother board does not support sli and thus the reason of one gpu having a yellow exclamation poin beside it "both are recogonized as a gtx 460 only one with the exclamation point..
    i think it would be a truely awsome card to run on a older mb but i guess they forget to inform the people buying them that if your mother board dosent support sli then dont by it!
    it truely bothers me that they do not inform people until after the fact that it simply wont work!
    plus if i had a sli motherboard i would have gotten a different card simply becasue it supported it! but the reason i "ATTEMPTED"this 2WIN was because it did have the dual gpu on one single card!!!!!
    yea its a brutal catch 22!
    and like always its the customer to pay.
    it seems like the sompany has forgoten that without customers there is no company and with the attitude like"if it dont work buy another"
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