GTX 460 Folding

so how quiet it the 460???...i been looking at it cant decide on the 768meg or 1gb.....does it make much difference for ppd??

 

The 460 is a very quiet card, at least with the reference cooler. The amount of VRAM & memory bandwidth has no noticeable effect on PPD, AFAIK. Overclocking the shaders is where you get the real performance gains.

 

What about the 465? Does it perform any better being a fully fledged fermi card?

 

The 460 is a fully fledged Fermi card too.

 

I was under the impression some features had been removed?

 

The 465 is a stripped down GF100 core. It's made from the left-overs from the GTX470 and 480 cards, and sadly doesn't use much less power than those. The GTX460 is based on the GF104 core and is being compared to the 8800GT in terms of power usage and OCing potential.

The 460 has fewer CUDA cores than the cards above it, but can OC sufficiently to cover this up. It doesn't lack any features compared to the 465, 470 or 480 cards as far as I can determine. Stuff like ECC on the memory and such are only on the Tesla version of Fermi after all.

 

Thanks for clearing that up for me =)

 

You're welcome

 

I'll be very interested to see a folding article, I might have been doing it for 6 years now but I'm still clueless when it comes to getting the best performance out of your hardware, or linking up multiple machines on your network.

 

A GTX 460 question (perhaps a dumb one!) ..... can these cards run under WinXP or are they limited to Win7 because they're DirectX 11 cards??

 

XP should be fine, they'll be backwards compatable (you just won't get DX 10 or 11)

 

used to get 14-15k on my GTX480, but the GTX460 looks nice for the price the price of £160 or £180 (756mb or 1gb)

still for my system as its intended purpose if for killing i would more likey buy an second GTX480 for the 3 monitor support later on

but the GTX460s later on this or next year may be useful (interesting that the i am still getting 10k without any of my personal systems running) i mite bring my office system back online maybe to night (the system is no longer stable keeps on kernel panic not overheating as its water cooled been stuck at an kernel panic for the last month {did not bother to turn it off})

 

I have a EVGA GTX460 OC version (shader clk=1526MHz).
[ I'd like to know how EVGA select the "OC" cards, i.e. are all cards tested and the "fastest" labelled as OC, or are all card the same apart from cooler? ]

FAHmon is reporting 9600PPD (CPU=Core i7@2.66MHz).

When folding the GTX460 consumes an extra 75W (same as the GTX260-216 which it replaced).
It has a "mini" HDMI socket. I have yet to work out how to enable it to use my main TV as a monitor (for YouTube or Media Player).
The card runs reasonably hot (too hot to hold my fingers on the back of the PCB), and is pretty quiet (re fan noise). GPU-Z is reporting a GPU temperature of only(!) 66degC. For comparison in my other PC the GTX260 reports 86degC and the 8800GTX+ reports 80degC.