Leadtek Winfast GTX 460 EXTREME
A couple of days ago my computer suddenly died. Not included and all. At the same time, I must say that I did not open the case, probably a year, or even more, so when it turned out that the cooler on the 600-watt power supply does not spin, I decided it was all about it. I went to the store, bought the same, but it did not solve the problem. OK, I collected the minimum configuration, and began to add by element. As a result, it turned out that the hero of the “celebration” was the video card. Moreover, the speaker was silent as a partisan, because at first he sinned at the BP, which eventually turned out to be a worker — only I had to change the CO.
But the story, of course, is not about how I returned life to iron, but about a new (for me, not in principle) video card. A part of the budget was consumed by the purchase of a PSU, and I almost unnoticeably stopped playing toys, so it was decided to limit the choice to the middle-end segment. Having looked through the price, I laid out five and a half kilorubles and brought home a Leadtek variation on the GeForce GTX 460 reference from NVIDIA. But the standard version with 768 MB of memory seemed to be somehow not solid, and therefore eventually a card with a gigabyte of memory on board and the word Extreme in the name settled in PCI Express.
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From the canonical design of GeForce Leadtek went not far, and made almost a copy of the original, limiting the application of its graphics and other cosmetics.
The card occupies two slots, but is strongly extended on the long side, therefore it does not seem particularly monstrous. Two DVI and one mini-HDMI connectors are soldered at the end (there is no adapter for a standard HDMI, and that is sad). Under the plastic case there is an aluminum radiator with a copper base and the same heat pipes with a diameter of 8 mm - for more efficient heat removal. In general, I must say that the cooling system copes with its task on a solid top five. Even at maximum load, the Carlson didn’t squeal like shredded, but barely audible rustling.
The whole solution is based on the GF104-325-A1 graphics core with seven multiprocessors (there are eight of them in general, but one is disabled), each of which consists of 48 stream processors. Total 336 workers. In this version of GF104 with 1024 MB of video memory, all four blocks of raster operations are used, a 256-bit memory bus and 512 MB of L2 cache. In addition, as I said, the Leadtek Winfast GTX 460 Extreme is called extreme because the manufacturer overclocked the GPU from the standard 650 MHz to 800 MHz, and the GDDR5 memory from 3600 MHz to 4 GHz. In practice, this gives an increase in performance in synthetic tests of the order of 15%. However, I did not use the standard 460th, so I cannot confirm the information myself - it remains to believe the Internet.
But I can share the numbers from 3DMark Vantage in the following configuration:
Performance preset - 19401, high preset - 12467, extreme preset - 8354 points. As for the games, Crysis 2 at the maximum settings produced slow-motion instead of a smooth image, so I had to disable FSAA, leaving the general settings in Extreme mode. So managed to achieve 50 fps.
But the story, of course, is not about how I returned life to iron, but about a new (for me, not in principle) video card. A part of the budget was consumed by the purchase of a PSU, and I almost unnoticeably stopped playing toys, so it was decided to limit the choice to the middle-end segment. Having looked through the price, I laid out five and a half kilorubles and brought home a Leadtek variation on the GeForce GTX 460 reference from NVIDIA. But the standard version with 768 MB of memory seemed to be somehow not solid, and therefore eventually a card with a gigabyte of memory on board and the word Extreme in the name settled in PCI Express.
')
From the canonical design of GeForce Leadtek went not far, and made almost a copy of the original, limiting the application of its graphics and other cosmetics.
The card occupies two slots, but is strongly extended on the long side, therefore it does not seem particularly monstrous. Two DVI and one mini-HDMI connectors are soldered at the end (there is no adapter for a standard HDMI, and that is sad). Under the plastic case there is an aluminum radiator with a copper base and the same heat pipes with a diameter of 8 mm - for more efficient heat removal. In general, I must say that the cooling system copes with its task on a solid top five. Even at maximum load, the Carlson didn’t squeal like shredded, but barely audible rustling.
The whole solution is based on the GF104-325-A1 graphics core with seven multiprocessors (there are eight of them in general, but one is disabled), each of which consists of 48 stream processors. Total 336 workers. In this version of GF104 with 1024 MB of video memory, all four blocks of raster operations are used, a 256-bit memory bus and 512 MB of L2 cache. In addition, as I said, the Leadtek Winfast GTX 460 Extreme is called extreme because the manufacturer overclocked the GPU from the standard 650 MHz to 800 MHz, and the GDDR5 memory from 3600 MHz to 4 GHz. In practice, this gives an increase in performance in synthetic tests of the order of 15%. However, I did not use the standard 460th, so I cannot confirm the information myself - it remains to believe the Internet.
But I can share the numbers from 3DMark Vantage in the following configuration:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte EP41-UD3L;
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3000 MHz;
- Memory: 4096MB (2 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM);
- Video adapter: Leadtek Winfast GTX 460 EXTREME;
- Hard Drive: Seagate ST9500420AS ATA Device (500GB);
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7601 Service Pack 1 (64-bit).
Performance preset - 19401, high preset - 12467, extreme preset - 8354 points. As for the games, Crysis 2 at the maximum settings produced slow-motion instead of a smooth image, so I had to disable FSAA, leaving the general settings in Extreme mode. So managed to achieve 50 fps.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/127440/
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