The GTX series from NVIDIA is in some case one of the fastest SINGLE core graphics in the market, but the ATI however is the performance crown with the 4870X2, with the help of the dual cores in the 4870X2 give ATI a lead in the performance block. With NVIDIA retaliating with the issuing driver ad hardware compatibility with all of their new GTX and 9 series range with the Physics engine that they have recently bought, to increase the graphics potential on GPGPU and graphic calculations, or just playing Physics based games like Ghost recon and Warmonger. Here we take a look on the more mid-to-high range graphics card from NVIDIA, the GTX 260 being over-clocked to about 76MHz from its default factory setting to make it 650 MHz and its shader clock to 1400MHz, almost 200MHz more to the standard. and its 896Mb GDDR3 memory moved to 2300Mhz. well the core and shader frequency being topped to allow slight increase performance, the GTX260 graphics chip has been refurbished to rather than its default 65-nm architecture, to its 55-nm smaller fabrication; to acquire a higher frequency over-clocking but still keeping the GPU cool.
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 for the external cooling is it own reference design, that has an enclosure all over the graphics chip; keeping it cool for about 32 degrees in idle in its settings and 64 degrees in load with also a noise level of about 34dBA at idle and 45dBA in load. For much of the graphics card needs at least an eight pin and a six pin power connectors to power up the VGA, but for this one you can get away with a two six pin connectors; plus the key performance differences between the GTX280 to the 260, just three to at least 15 fps in some games while the prize gap between them is pretty big, about $100 in the least when shopping around. The performance Isle is just the same with the OEM GTX260 even in stock settings, just getting four the most in high resolutions, but the lower resolutions are bare to see in about 20 fps difference in Crysis and in Sins of the Solar Empire. But over the other graphics, the 4850 cannot keep up with it in low but when setting the AAF on, the 4850 keep up with it; not to mention the 4870X2 or even the one GB version of the single core 4870 beats it in AAF on in high or even in low resolution they keep the GTX up on its heels. Yes the GTX260 is a good option for the GTX280 alternative for the prize and performance. This simply cannot be miss when you are a NVIDIA fan.
