today we will be doing an unboxing of the GeForce GTX 460 to win or twin from
EVGA this is something I've received numerous requests to take a look at and
to evaluate the performance of so I'm going to be doing one of those things
today and I will be taking a look at it
I will not be evaluating the performance because I can tell you guys right now
before I've even opened the box how it will perform and I think the performance
should be fairly evident based on the name of the product in this case so what
this is is it is a custom PCB product from EVGA who is if you are to believe
what it says on the side of their box and I do the number one seller in the US
of NVIDIA based products number one in reliability and service of graphics
cards something something footnote number one performance leader in 3D Mark
11 and the number one full at home team in the
world let's open this baby
up and see what we get in terms of
accessories so the first thing we have is a graphics card user guide the next
thing we find is a driver CD with a
sticker so you can use the sticker but throw away the driver CD download the
latest drivers from NVIDIA.com this is a
sticker it appears to be a bumper sticker that's kind of sweet throw that
in your car why not right all right next we we
have a mini HDMI to HDMI cable and
that's a nice long cable so you don't have to worry about any clearance issues
when you're plugging in the fulls size HDMI cable we've got two uh dual six pin
to single 8 Pin PCIe power connectors as well as a DVI to VGA adapter the next
thing we find is the two win or twin
card itself which has a custom cooler
custom PCB this is just about as custom
a card as you can hope to encounter so
let's uh open this up and let's talk about
performance here for a little bit so performance of the GeForce GTX 460 twin
well the performance will be exactly the
performance of two GTX 460s in SLI or
with pretty much within margin of error of such a solution because this is a
dual GPU graphics card so on this fully
custom PCB you can see we have three 80
mm fans and those are all blowing into a
fully custom heat pipe cooler so you can see each of the gpus has three heat
pipes so on this top one you can see three heat pipes coming out this way
this way and this way this middle one is actually only cooling heat well only
carrying away heat that is brought to it from the heat pipes from the other gpus
as well as blowing down onto the PCB to cool any other incidental components and
then here the other GPU has three heat pipes coming out of it this way so
carrying heat away from those GTX 460 gpus or GF 110s I believe they are all
right so this is not restrictive at all
so these fans are going to have full access to the airf flow that they need
to blow air onto the heat pipes and fins
here this is a really cool thing about this card because it is an SLI on a card
card we actually have full support for
three dis plays out in 3D Vision surround so one of these sets of
displays is running off one of the cards the other two displays are running off
of the other card or chip or whatever you want to call it so we have full
support for technology that is typically
only possible with NVIDIA SLI so here we
see a little bit of the overall design of the card so you can see where the
gpus are situated you can see this is 512 Megs of RAM so the other 512 Megs is
likelihood I'm just going to double check that before I go ahead and confirm
it yep is on the other side of the PCB
here is all of our power delivery circuitry which is uh incidentally
powered by the two 8 Pin PCIe connectors on the top of the card here's where the
other GPU is as well as the RAM around it and the rest of the RAM is on the
other side you can see here that we are
using a PCIe 16x interface to
communicate with the computer and up here we've have actually got an SLI
Bridge finger this doesn't work because
the of the limitations of the GF 110 GPU
itself it is not capable of four-way SLI
it is only capable of two-way SLI which we are already running because we're
running SLI on a card so we can't use this that is just a an error shouldn't
be there okay here we've got two uh
eight pin PCIe power connectors which I mentioned before they are situated in
their ideal locations on the top of the board because if if you extended this
board any longer then it might not fit into some cases we've got an EVGA logo
up here at the top which matches the color scheme of the rest of the card
which looks really sharp I might add and
then other than that uh let's move around to the back of the card and have
a look at what's there not a whole lot okay let's look at the bottom of the
card not a whole lot nice brushed finish to the cooler though looks really really
sharp and I just want to do a quick size comparison for you guys I'm just going
to run and grab a GT X let's see let's get a let's get an
EVGA GTX 580 and uh that's all I really
have on me right now I think oh no hold on I have uh here I have a radon
6990 so why don't we compare the size
really quickly to these other cards so remember the GTX 460 because it's such a
good value GPU as soon as you put it in SLI it
actually outperforms a GTX 580 even
though the twin is a less expensive solution than a GTX 580 power
consumption is also excellent on the GTX
uh 460 so that is that's what makes this
card such a compelling solution and that's why EVGA went out of their way to
produce a custom card just for gtx460
SLI so here is the length compared to the radon 6990 you can see it is a touch
shorter about a half about a centimeter and a bit shorter and requires the same
number of PCIe 8 Pin connectors although
I can guarantee you this dual GTX 460
card consumes far less power than the 6990 thank you for checking out my
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