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We said in our previous reviews that GTX 460 is ‘Fermi done right‘ and this overclocked MSI card today further verifies our findings that these are the best Fermi cards on the market today. MSI have taken this core design and turned it on its head, offering not only a card which has a better cooler, faster clocks and lower noise levels, but one which manually overclocks to levels we previously thought impossible.
MSI are proving to Kitguru in 2010 that their product range keeps getting better and with every item of hardware that we review, the stronger this belief becomes. The ‘military class components' hype they mention on these boxes sounds like PR fluff but in reality we have noticed huge overclocking potential on all products utilising this technology.
This isn't the first graphics card from them which has achieved similar overclocking feats – check out our review of the R5870 Lighting for instance and then follow up with a look at the Big Bang X Power for a tutorial on just how to create the ultimate motherboard.
The kicker really comes when you look at the current pricing, this card would be a good deal for £220, but we have seen them in the UK at prices just over £190 inc vat. This is extremely competitive, especially when the nearest ATI card is the HD5830 – originally the same price, but which has recently dropped to around £170 inc vat. Its still not good value compared to the GTX460, because we firmly believe it is the only duff card in the HD5000 series … you either buy the HD5770 or the HD5850, simple as that. Right now the GTX460 would be our first choice just under £200 as the price to performance ratio is simply outstanding.
KitGuru says: MSI release another A list product which is leading the way – they are currently releasing some of the finest products available in the enthusiast sector.
That card is extremely impressive, the GTX460 pricing is so good too.
MSI are kicking ass in 2010, no doubt about it. loved all the products you guys have reviewed here in the last couple of months.
Very good review, and what an overclock!
The cooler looks very like a Zalman design, glad you spotted that also. Wonder if they had a hand in this card. Where the hell are Zalman lately anyway?
Its hard to fault the GTX460 and these third party designs are pushing the box even further.
Wicked, very good price for such a modded design.
MSI are really using high quality components arent they? shows in all their products we are seeing lately.
Well this is my new card, once I can find it for sale.
Love the design, remember my zalman GFX cooler years ago, this looks very similar.
Damn, thats a sexy card. the price makes them such a good deal, not far from hd5850 in highly overclocked states either.
I would never have contemplated MSI for a graphics card, not until recently anyway.
Seems like a good value for money video card. the market is so competitive in 2010, I love to see it.
This card overclocks like a mofo, wonder if they hand picked it for kitguru however ?
Great review and I love the look of this baby.
This is a lovely looking product and well priced. I hope to see more from MSI in the future in this price point.
That is such a well made product really but they have stiff competition from other GTX460 makers
Well im glad to see the 1gb version has keep the MSI flag flying high, the 768mb model got good reviews also.
This begs the question, why the hell did nvidia make a 768mb version anyway, it seems so pointless really.
This seems to be a good price for value for money, under 200 now gives such good offerings to the end user. over 200 seems pointless unless you need 30 inch screen resolutions when gaming.
Seems a good first choice this, ATI are weak at 199. which is weird for them. 5850 needs to drop to 200 now.
Very nice product that. good pricing from MSI also, should sell well cause I want one 🙂
It actually shows how competitive the market is in 2010 at this time, 3 years ago, a card like this would have been a high end board.
ROP of GTX 460 1GB GPU should be 32 units.
Texture Filtering Rate (Bilinear) should be 37.8 as well.