Long live the GTX460!

[VirtualLarry]

I bought a couple for my rigs, a few years back. Paid $180 ea. Some nice Gigabyte-branded ones, with 1GB RAM, and twin fans. Little did I know that those fans were cheap ones, and would start to fail in under 3 years. Anyways...

What is a good replacement card today that is a step up from the GTX460? I could have purchased an HIS 7950 Boost 3GB model for under $220 recently.

I rarely game, more interested in DC, not so totally into CUDA as much anymore, as many projects going forward are coded in OpenCL.

 

[Greenlepricon]

You can still get one for $220 if you want. It's not the HIS one but instead the MSI TF.

 

[raghu78]

if you want a GPU for professional work then get a compute beast like HD 7950. sapphire dual x or msi tf3.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814202026
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127734

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Weird, My MSI GTX 460 Cyclone has decided to start artifacting BADLY when on the desktop and really crapping out when playing videos. Also 3 years old.

Plays 3D games just fine though, which is really strange.

 

[FalseChristian]

Weird, My MSI GTX 460 Cyclone has decided to start artifacting BADLY when on the desktop and really crapping out when playing videos. Also 3 years old.

Plays 3D games just fine though, which is really strange.

I had 2 eVGA GTX 460 1GB SLI. Disable 'Video (GPU) Acceleration' in Media Player or VLC.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I had 2 eVGA GTX 460 1GB SLI. Disable 'Video (GPU) Acceleration' in Media Player or VLC.

Why would Video Acceleration cause artificats while sitting idle on desktop though? I think I did try that, but I'll go ahead, pop it back in and try again. Anything is better than this 8800GTS 320 I'm limping along on at the moment!