So it's time to buy a new graphics card. I'm on a pretty tight budget. The 460 looks to be a great step up from my 9500gt. Question is, with my current slightly outdated system, will there be a great performance increase, or will my current setup hold me back?
 
Specs in sig. :)
 
Open to any opinions. I am considering building something around an x58 board at some point, but right now my budget is pretty tight.

I saw a pretty nice kick going from a GTX 260 to a 460. For you, going from a 9500 GT to a 460 will be like .

Any thoughts on AA with the 460?
 
Ex: I can play Crysis Warhead at 1024x768 @ 40-60 fps on mainstream settings. Add even 2x AA, and it drops below 20. (automatically kicks the games shader quality to "gamer" also)
 
what should i expect to see with a 460, assuming people have used it with this game?

Hmm. sounds like a deal to me. :)

I'm one of those who also went from gtx260 to gtx460 can't complain at all...I like the HDMI ability with sound to to TV.....my vantage score went from 13,200 to 17,200.....waiting to go to SLI

PSU will be your next weak point.

You'll probably be able to run one card fine, but plan on upgrading if you want to SLI.

Put it this way, my 4870x2 fried and I bought a 460 GTX just for a filler card till I get whole new setup, and the 460 GTX is a fantastic card. In fact it performs BETTER in some games then my 4870x2. So yea, get it , get it, get it!! 
 
   And they overclock like champs, I can almost guarantee 800 mhz on the core.
 
 So yea... GET IT GET IT GET!! IT!!!!

I've got a SC running stable at FTW clocks with only 1.000V.  Go for it!

Yes, EE is a must, especially since I'm planning on SLI at some point. :D
 
That's good to hear, sleepee. I have to run to the bank to put money in and I'm ordering it :)

fanboy

You should be able to get alittle more from that e5200 if your board is capable with something like 12.5 x 310 at 1.38-1.40v but some of them can do 320-330 which would be over 4Ghz and that is a Wolfdale C2D core and why it can overclock and shouldn't bottleneck the 460GTX..

 
Yes, I know :)
 
I've pushed this CPU to it's max. That is, when I had my old board. It died and I had to replace it with a P5N-D because it was the best price option.
 
However, I can't push it anywhere near that high with this board due to temps. I'm fairly certain there is a huge offset, but at 3.8 ghz (1.45 vcore) it idles in the 80's. This board is notorious for temp offsets and running hotter than it should because the northbridge is so close to the CPU.
 
I ran it in prime95 for 5 minutes at 3.8 ghz, and came back and temps were reading 80 for both cores, and ASUS pc probe was reading 122C...i unplugged it..lmao
 
I have a 120mm rifle cooler with high concentration AS 5..shouldn't be doing that lol

If you haven't already, be sure to update the P5N-D bios... I had some problems going from 9800gtx+ --> 460gtx that where remedied by the update... for a while: now the same problem is occurring in one game only after a patch... damn "Unknown error on CMDre"!

I have been really happy with mine, handles bfbc2 all setting high without a hiccup.

That was a type o, but my model number is the 01G-P3-1373-AR....

Remember if you ever run SLI on the P5ND it will run like a SINGLE Card.
Even my CPU has a hard time feeding the cards properly.
 
I say SINGLE card because of coarse the P5N-D 775 is a 750I based unit..
 
Instead of having 2x16 lanes and or 32 lanes total in SLI, you only have 2x8 lanes 16 total on that board. So its running SLI at 8x8 vs 16 lanes for a single card.
 
I suggest you get the first card and upgrade that board later on down the road. Upgrade your BIOS if you haven't already to the 1401 bios and you should be happy with the result.
 
My Cards are 01G-P3-1373-AR cards.