had a ton of requests for a video outlining the uh performance I was able
to squeeze out of the MSI GeForce GTX
460 Hawk so this features the twin
frozer 2 heat sink it's got dual DVI 1
mini HDMI and you can see I've got a bunch of fans blowing around it right
now just kind of uh put the camera through there so it takes two six pin
power connectors as I mentioned in my unboxing that I did you can see the uh
the voltage checkpoint down here these fans are going pretty
good right now because I have this thing
overvolted uh let me see so here is a beta version of MSI After Burner that
includes full support for the GTX 460 Hawk so you can see here the core
voltage memory voltage and auxiliary voltage are all adjustable so I've
turned up I'm just going for Max core right now I haven't actually done
anything with the memory but I was able to achieve 96 62 MHz fully fur Mark
stable with the hawk Edition card so
that is what I was able to do and I haven't tried any 3D Mark runs yet but
once I dial in the memory I will uh I'll try and get some 3D Mark going and then
uh what I want to do too is compare it
to the GTX 480 so thank you for checking out my uh
core overclocking video on the hawk don't forget to subscribe to lonus Tech
tips and stay tuned for more updates on this sweet video card oh hey actually no
before I'm done here's something I wanted to mention this is a reference
PCB uh GTX 460 it has the Cyclone cooler
from MSI but uh something I wasn't sure about in my video with the hawk is
whether or not it is longer than a reference PCB 460 the answer is yes it's
approximately that much
longer see my angle yeah my angle is now
right this video is going to be all about comparing the GTX 460 twin frozer
2 Hawk from MSI against gain the GTX 480
now it's not a completely fair comparison because I am going to be
overclocking the GTX 460 so here is the
settings that I am running at here so you can see I'm running at 962 MHz on
the core and 2.07 3 GHz on the RAM okay
so I'm doing that and here's the score I got in 3D Mark Vantage so I know I have
physics on but I'm going to have physics on for both cards so it will be an Apples to Apples comparison and this is
running a core i7 980x at
4.15 GHz I'm running 6 gigs of Kingston
uh liquid ready H2O series hyperx RAM
and I'll be back in a moment when we have the score for the gtx480 so
remember that number 21601 for the the 460 hawkk