august 4 2010 review by tbreak

The big selling point for this card is the Voltage Tweaking ability for more overclocking headroom.

There's a premium price tag on this graphics card, because the GPU clock is OCed to 775MHz and the Memory to 1000MHz, the reference card is clocked @ 675MHz Core and 900MHz Memory.

Conclusion: Despite the fact that the ASUS ENGTX460 is a decently overclockable card with higher factory speeds, it still fails to impress compared to Zotac's similarly powerful but cheaper offering. The ASUS card is about 20% more expensive than the Zotac card, so the ENGTX460 is a hard sell indeed.

Overclocking:

The results were quite impressive, but this video card is having trouble keeping up with the Zotac GTX 460 1024MB which has the reference speeds. At factory settings, the ENTGX460 makes a lot more noise under pressure than the Zotac GTX 460. Overclocked the ENGTX460 was extremely loud, the fan got overstressed and the reviewer was worried that something would blow up.

Compared to:

• Sapphire HD5850
• Zotac GTX 465
• Geforce GTX 470
• Geforce GTX 280

Benchmarks:

Dirt 2, Just Cause, Far Cry 2, Unigine Heaven 2.1, 3D Mark Vantage.