Re: All Graphics Cards related queries here.
Well thanks for the advice HD 5770 is no doubt a good card on the other hand what im seein is that Nvidia produced a good card but its partner(Palit) screwed it up as the card runs very hot. I scanned through many reviews of MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5 all of them rate it a a good product and many said it has a High end heatsink and is pretty Quiet unlike Palit's 460 its temp are also comparatively low(u can see the pics attached, taken frm G3D )
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On one hand I have a good reliable HD5770 on another GTX 460 + special Physx eyecany + I have no clue how good are MSI guys customer service IN INDIA!!
So overall in short Im CONFUSED!!
yelp!!
Ok, I suggest the HD5770, but the issue of gray screen crash exists(albeit on a few cards, specially the first lot), I haven't hooked up my HD5850 yet(probably a new lot, says ver 3.1 on the box) but hope I'll not get that issue, so take a leap of faith.
PS- PhysX eyecandy has a massive toll on GPUs, in both Metro 2033 and Dark Void cranking up the PhysX brings the almighty GTX480 to its knees, so with a GTX460 you'll not be able to enjoy the eyecandy, I will not miss it, but I do miss CUDA(core codec H.264 decoder) but palit is too damn unreliable, putting massive volts on cards and then unable to provide cooling for it.
PS- MSI has really good customer service for mobos but no idea about GPU, ask the retailer directly.
---------- Post added at 08:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:23 PM ----------
thats excellent than
thats the reason i not even asked you sell little more for the 768Mb version. all the GTX460s available currently here are having problems. best bet is EVGA. but sadly, it isn't available here for now. can go for MSI one. but currently its really hard to recommend a GTX460. cause which card will have problem, nobody can say. tkin & mukherjee, both have(had) the same card. & see one heats up while the other one runs fairly cool. so, i'll say go with a HD5770 & be safe.
Actually mukherjee has card from a different lot, in his case card remains stable @ the low load volts but mine must be crashing, that's why the extra stock voltage, I looked up everywhere, in all cases the Voltage at load for the GTX460 never goes this high, the fermi GF100 generates a lot of heat to begin with, palit has no idea how to cool cards, the GTX480/470 loads up to 97c but all the heat goes out through the back, so it works good and keep the case cool, but palit is nuts.
My Palit GTX460 1GB OCCT, just look at it:
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The temp dropped to 93 after removing the side panel and blowing in a TABLE FAN, just imagine the horror
ITS NOT COOLING. THE CARD IS FAULTY TO BEGIN WITH(actually the VGA BIOS IS FAULTY).
IDLE was ok.
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---------- Post added at 08:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:37 PM ----------
Boy oh boy, I guess the early bird got the best 'yummy' card!!!
I just went OMG with ur temps!!! Mine is doing good tho...next time...no Palit for me.
Just one question frnz, will my card be alright?
Run OCCT for 2hrs straight, if it starts to throttle then its faulty otherwise its ok.
Also keep an eye on your other peripheral temperatures, use hwmonitor, that palit almost melt my northbridge and hdds.
making decisions on the fly. and its a very good decision to sell that faulty card. and that XFX cards looks good (the sticker & the fan design rocks). hope it doesn't come up with any problem any soon. congrats again.
