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Skip the MSI Hawks & save some ca$h. You can buy a couple of ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP 768mb
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At your resolution, you will have enough memory to run the same settings like the 1gb version. ASUS DirectCUs OC just as well as the MSI Hawks
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GTX 460 768MB & 1GB review (shows you the difference between the 2):
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-review/
GTX 460 768MB & 1GB review (shows you the difference between the 2):
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-review/
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He doesn't say anything about res.
Originally Posted by drBlahMan  Skip the MSI Hawks & save some ca$h. You can buy a couple of ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP 768mb
GTX 460 768MB & 1GB review (shows you the difference between the 2): http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-review/ |
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If you can sell your reference 460 for $140 do it.
As a previous owner of both MSI 460 cyclones and the 460 HAWKS, I recommend the Cyclones actually. They are quieter and I got a better overclock on them than I did on the HAWK models. Plus they stayed cooler in SLI.
You have a 23" monitor, I assume you game at 1080P. It seems like your budget is about $400. For $440 you could get a reference 580...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-125-_-Product
If you're spending a fresh $400 I would look into getting a stronger single card. Just an idea. You can get an MSI GTX 570 PE TFIII for $360 which will OC close to SLI 460's and have more VRAM to boot. You have many options, but buying 2 460's now kills your upgrade path immediately, and as games require more and more VRAM, you might be kicking yourself in a year.
Definitely stay away from 768MB models of 460's though. Dragon Age 2 (a game thats been out for a month already) uses 1100MB VRAM of my gtx 570 when fully maxxed out. 768 is shooting yourself in the foot IMO.
Originally Posted by Daris1015 Bump any help I wanted to pick them up today or tomorrow! |
As a previous owner of both MSI 460 cyclones and the 460 HAWKS, I recommend the Cyclones actually. They are quieter and I got a better overclock on them than I did on the HAWK models. Plus they stayed cooler in SLI.
You have a 23" monitor, I assume you game at 1080P. It seems like your budget is about $400. For $440 you could get a reference 580...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-125-_-Product
If you're spending a fresh $400 I would look into getting a stronger single card. Just an idea. You can get an MSI GTX 570 PE TFIII for $360 which will OC close to SLI 460's and have more VRAM to boot. You have many options, but buying 2 460's now kills your upgrade path immediately, and as games require more and more VRAM, you might be kicking yourself in a year.
Definitely stay away from 768MB models of 460's though. Dragon Age 2 (a game thats been out for a month already) uses 1100MB VRAM of my gtx 570 when fully maxxed out. 768 is shooting yourself in the foot IMO.
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