GTX 460 roundup - your pick

The Cyclone is one of the best GTX 460s and a good choice. The PSU is a bit pricey imo even with the combo but it is certainly a quality unit. Personally I would probably grab this;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817207003
and then get the card with the free game(it's a good one);
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.455033
FYI the XFX PSUs are also made by Seasonic. The above is about $50 less after rebates. If you aren't interested in the game you can probably ebay it for an even larger price difference.

Do it again and I'll close the thread.

My vote is definitely in favor of MSI's Cyclone 1GB GTX 460. It has always reviewed very well, and if I were going to put a GTX 460 in a machine that would be my most likely choice.

I've owned at least 3 MSI nVidia based video cards and never had a lick of trouble with them. The Cyclone 1GB GTX 460 has been stellar in every online review I've seen. Yet to hear anyone gripe about it. They seem to cool very well, which should give you optimal ability to OC.

BTW: EVGA is giving away a free Download of Metro 2033 if you buy a GTX 460 from them. So if you want that game, that might save cash. And the EVGA cards perform and I hear cool fairly well. However, I bought Metro 2033 and played it once through. Graphically it was fantastic. However, I have no desire to play it again. It's very linear game play, with no real plot line choices. And quite frankly, the guns in the game just really made me mad the whole way through. Shooting something with 20-50 rounds before it dies gets old after a while.

Try reading the sticky, you know the one titled "Read this first" that no one bothers to read at all.

Thank you, your support is appreciated. However the bumping of threads does sometimes get out of hand and at some point needs to be stopped and as that sticky has been up for over six months I feel that it's time to start enforcing the "no bumping" rule otherwise there would no point in having such a rule, and what makes one thread more important than any of the others?

I have researched and researched the GTX460 manufacturers, review after review, thread after thread. I came to the conclusion today that the MSI Cyclone is indeed, the best bang for your buck. All the reviews I have read greatly promoted the card and its price, and it is the easiest, safest, and most reliable card to over-clock. It also has extremely low temperatures under load, with the OC. It may suck more power than the AMD 5000's, but the GTX460's temps are much lower. Just check out any review of the card, all say the same thing. I bought mine today off of Newegg with the free game and rebate! Yes, the Hawk did just come out, but it will only OC better, and that's all it offers. I have read numerous reviews that the new "Cyclone cooler" is actually better than the Twin frozr II in some aspects. Get the Cyclone!

Rules are rules and sometimes they have to be enforced, I could get completely draconian and close any and every thread that gets bumped until people get the point that bumping threads is a no no but hopefully it won't come to that, only time will tell I suppose.

I purchased 2 EVGA GTX 460s 1 Gig OC'ed from newegg to sli. One of the reasons for the EVGA card was the out of the Box exhaust. It seemed more inportrant to me that the hot air get out of my case than the small jump in performance I would see with the Palitt or the Cyclone. So far mine has been great, Idles at about 25C and loaded about 59C. I do have a HAF 932 case with a refridgerated unit ducted into the front 230mm fan though. My setup is in my Garage uninsulated....so if it is 100 outside it is 100 in the garage. The computer does fine out here....just needs dusting once a week, lol

Jesus those are both great combos, great case, great PSUs, great GPU. Its a tough decision, see if you can't get any other combos with the GPU besides that PSU one.

By the way, the HAWK, the Cyclone, and the DirectCU are the best 460s, I wouldn't get any others.

I'd probably go with the XFX PSU and Antec case just so you can SLI in the future.

My first choice would be the following option from MSI :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814127510 204.99 after rebate

I know you are looking to run SLI with gtx 460s but you could look at this card, buy one now and then purchase another one for SLI once the price drops:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814127513

It is an overclocked GTX 470 but it keeps very low temps under full load. It would cost 319.00 after the rebate and only runs on average 5-8 fps lower than a regular GTX 480.

I know you are not interested in competing cards, but again, another option is this Galaxy 470 After rebate it's in high end 460 price range. It idles around 40 degrees in my case, haven't stress tested it, but it did get to 78 in Crysis/Ultra high/noAA@1600x900. I also drilled for a fan installed on the bottom of my case to pull air in and blow directly into the gfx fan

Lotta controversy about the bump in here... Ok I see both sides. Bumping is annoying.

But I think this thread is a legitimate discussion about a popular piece of hardware so I was annoyed it wasn't catching on. Maybe everyone was out to lunch or something. I guess I could have waited longer... but it doesn't take long for a dormant post to trickle down the list... I could have devised a more subtle way of keeping it alive. If not I would have just started a new thread but I figured that was just as bad.

you can also bump the memory uo to 1840 but that doesnt do much

Its in the top 5, it just doesn't hold its own against the MSIs and the ASUS (and even Palit), in my opinion.

mine also gigabyte...last time also gigabyte 8600GT...no problem at all.....and if u want to SLi (refer to Kit Guru website) it...it can be one of the coolest duo

Just so you know dur_trix, we have previously proven that your comments about the GTX 460 are misinformed and your research is incomplete. The article you referenced is for the GTX 465 which is not the same as the GTX 460. The GTX 460 uses a different chip then the GTX 465 and the GTX 460 performs much better then the GTX 465. Please reference articles that relate to the discussion. Also, fan boyism is not helpful when trying to decide what card to use. ATI and NVidia are doing a decent job at the moment competing head to head at all levels. Please stop suggesting that people not buy the GTX 460 until you actually read the articles you are referencing.

Speaking of different GPU's, in the end I ended up buying this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

After weighing the options and reading this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2713.html

I fell in love after reading the TH review. Imagine 2 of these bad boys in SLI....