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GeForce GTX 460 Roundup - Sparking NVIDIA's DX11 Revival

By Kenny Yeo - 2 Aug 2010

Introducing the Cards (contd.)

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC features the company’s WindForce cooler, which is basically the same inclined fan design that we’ve seen on some of their new custom-designed cards. The specially-designed fan is said to minimize turbulence between the two fans, which in turn helps promote better air ventilation and hence cooling.

The card also features Gigabyte’s Ultra Durable VGA component such as ferrite core chokes, solid capacitors and a 2oz copper PCB (following their successful formula on their motherboards business) for better overall performance, and power and cooling efficiency.

And lastly, the card comes factory overclocked at a more modest 715MHz at the core, while memory remains unchanged at 3600MHz DDR.

The Windforce cooler features slightly inclined fans which Gigabyte says reduces turbulence and forces more air onto the heatsink.

The Gigabyte card sports the usual twin DVI ports and single mini-HDMI for video output.

Apart from the two inclined fans, the Windforce cooler also sports two heat pipes to draw heat away from the GPU core.

 

Sparkle GeForce GTX 460

The Sparkle GeForce GTX 460 is perhaps the plainest card here, sporting NVDIA’s reference design cooler. It is also only mildly overclocked, having received just only a 25MHz bump to the core bringing it up to 700MHz. Memory clock speeds have been left untouched at 3600MHz DDR.

The Sparkle GeForce GTX 460 is completely identical to our reference card save for the Sparkle sticker adorning the cooler cover.

Again, the same twin DVI and single mini-HDMI ports for video output.

Underneath the cooler cover, the Sparkle card uses the same radial heatsink design as the reference card. And peering closely, we can see the use of copper heat pipes to quickly draw and dissipate heat away from the GPU core.

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