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MSI GeForce N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5 Overclocked Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International
Product: N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5 OC
Date: Wed, Aug 04, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we measured the peak wattage used by the system while running the OpenGL benchmark FurMark 1.8.2 at 1920x1200 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The total board power for the GeForce GTX 460 1GB video card is 160W, while the 768MB model is 150W. The MSI N460GTX used slightly more power than the GeForce GTX 460 768MB cards that we compared it to here, but as you can see all of the cards have performance numbers that are close. The load power consumptions numbers are significantly different, but that is due to the overclock that the cards have on them and as the overclock gets higher the power consumption goes up at load.

Next Page - Temperature Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - The MSI N460GTX Cyclone Video Card
Page 2 - A Closer Look at the N460GTX Cyclone
Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 4 - GeForce GTX 460 Test Settings
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Resident Evil 5
Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 12 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Temperature Testing
Page 15 - MSI GeForce GTX 460 1GB Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions