Micro star international is many by far a good major manufacture of silicon components to entry level users for their cheap alternative on Intel and AMD chipset motherboards, to the more experienced and high prize demand on their rig, like the new Intel corei7 chipsets with enabled third (MSI) party software to over-clock to see the potential on applications, whether it is benchmark scores or just having a few frames more to increase interactivity on high demanding games. Well the GTX260 series form NVIDIA have a quick make up from the micro star manufacturers by adding a completely new game form batman in the comic series as a bundle in the card for as much as $169.99US.
Well, the new MSI N260GTX is still the same GTX260, one of the mainstream lower end graphics card from NVIDIA is, still has the same processor power and memory bandwidth as every other GTX260 has. While this is considered to be an over-clocked card, it still has the same processor fabrication process and the same architecture of the same revision of the 55nm to keep the core smaller and shorten the heat problem when it is running in load times in stress tests or just the everyday gaming demands of high end applications.
Well physically the new/old GTX260 is in the bad way of bringing an already old dated GTX series, we could expect a much cheaper and a mainstream variant like the GTS or the GTX 100 series to top it all off a good new games free with the new graphics card, even having a lower ended type, still have the option of having SLI or Crossfire and play the Batman bundle. But the good thing is that with the prize cuts in all of the products in the newer GTX series gave it more edge and sometimes a clear indication of a retaliation of the new HD5000 series starting from the HD5870.
With the upper hand of the graphics kit is the bundle of the new Batman animated game in PC, a pretty new game in a sarcastic way, into a much older graphics card, way to compensate with a game. Well performance wise, the GTX260 game a good running with the pre-over-clocked state that it gained about 3 to 7 maximum frames in most DX10 games more noticeably with the driver updates made fallout 3 and also other engines run much smoother in game play, as well as the Batman bundle hit about 50fps considering a corei7 configuration with a X58 chipset.
Overall the GTX260 card form MSI is a little old to bring back once a great card way back in 2008, yes the over-clocking is a last ditch effort for the card to look good, as well as a picture of the antagonist of the game is a great looking feature, but have to go with a GTS with this bundle to sweeten the deal.