eVGA GTX 460 1GB Superclocked SLI review

eVGA's box art is very distinctive and these boxes remain true to their ‘traditional' design, with no pictures of the product on the front, just their company logo and a list of specifications.

The package contains power converter cables, an HDMI and VGA converter, manual and software disc. The disc includes the eVGA Precision overclocking utility.

The cards are built around a black PCB with plain black shroud, which we like for the understated appearance. They are shipped with two dual link DVI ports and a mini HDMI with a supplied converter cable. Hot air is forced out the back of the case which will please the enthusiast audience.

They take two 6 pin power feeds, just like the reference nVidia design. These cards are rated at 160W each, which means an SLI configuration should take around 320W under full load (around the same as a GTX 480 when running Furmark). More on this later.

As these cards are eVGA overclocked samples they undergo special treatment from the eVGA engineering team. They use solid polymer capacitors and on the back of the board are tantalum capacitors which are mounted right next to the GPU. The VRM configuration on these cards is a three phase implementation which utilises discrete mosfets throughout. The DRAM power section uses a single phase discrete power design.

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