Review: Zotac GeForce GTX 460 1GB

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Barely a month after NVIDIA’s last GF100 graphics card, the GTX 465, struggled out the stable door another new graphics card, the GTX 460 has turned up to steal its thunder.
Running more than one graphics card on a motherboard has always been fraught with problems, not least which cards will play nice together, with MSI’s Fuzion line though AMD and NVIDIA cards can now make friends. We’ve got hold of a pre-production sample of MSI’s P55A Fuzion motherboard , and though it’s by no means the finished article it does represent what could be a fascinating change in multi-GPU motherboards
Buying PC components is all about choosing the right weapon for the job at hand. Exactly what PNY’s GeForce GTX 295 is best suited for is a tricky question. If beating pensioners to death is your bag, you could do a lot worse.
Nvidia recently announced the new GeForce GTX 465 graphics card and that wasn’t end of the Fermi cards. At the on-going Computex 2010, Nvidia displayed new Fermi architecture based GeForce GTX 470 graphics card with dual GPU on the same printed circuit board. That means a dual-GPU based Fermi graphics card is in the anvil
IBM announced on Tuesday a hybrid high-performance computer that combines Intel and Nvidia processors–a first for IBM. The IBM iDataPlex Dx360 M3 is powered by both Intel Xeon central processing units (CPUs) and Nvidia Tesla graphics processing units (GPUs) and is designed to be clustered with other Dx360 M3 modular servers to form a supercomputer.
Micro-Star International (MSI) has continued its string of product releases over the past months, even making sure that it offered enough variety by alternating motherboards with notebooks and graphics cards, among other things. Not long ago, in fact, the Taiwanese hardware developer was revealed to be working on a low-profile NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 graphics card. Now, after little over a month, the hardware player has decided to reveal a newer version of the same product
When you’ve got a footprint of just 7.4- x 7.4- x 1.73-inches, it’s hard to make too big of an impression. That said, Zotac’s new ZBOX looks to be just the thing for those scouting a diminutive HTPC or bedroom machine that can handle the best Glee re-runs and all of that YouTube HD footage that your long-lost siblings continue to email you from the wilds of Wisconsin.
This is it, the more relevant take on Nvidia’s latest GPU, the GeForce GTX 470.
Nvidia posted a preview video of the GTX 480, their eyeball-popping, face-melting Fermi graphics card that is set for release “very, very soon.” It bests ATI’s HD 5870 in a benchmark, though maybe not by as much as you’d hope. As Tom Petersen, Nvidia’s director of technical management, explains in the video, the GTX 480 shines when it’s tessellation time. During the tessellation-intensive parts of the benchmark, Nvidia’s card outpaces ATI’s considerably, though at other points they’re neck and neck
is taking the wraps off some major changes to its Catalyst drivers today. These monthly graphics driver updates usually focus on minor tweaks, bug fixes, and performance improvements, but this month and next month will usher in some singificant new features.