Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 SOCWhen we look at NVIDIA anno 2010, the GeForce GTX 460 has to be the most interesting in terms of value for money with very acceptable decent thermals and power consumption. This is why we see a lot of SKUs released for this product, with a variety of cooling and factory overclocks.

The GeForce GTX 460 comes in many forms, shapes and sizes, but pretty much all of the cards out there are based on the NVIDIA reference design. That by itself is a rock solid design with no compromises at all. However, we are gurus and we like to see things within their own little niche and with that x-factor. As such it’s always with the greatest pleasure that we review the more customized products.

Gigabyte also released a handful of GeForce GTX 460 cards, based on the reference design with a slight overclock, yet also an SOC series graphics card which is a factory overclocked model with the new WindForce 2X based cooler sitting on top of that GPU. Now, we’ve already seen a couple of models based on this cooling solution, but the Gigabyte card really is something special.

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