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(24 customer reviews) 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Product,
April 4, 2009 Omni Presence "TK421" (Lunar Module One) - See all my reviews
This review is from: EVGA GeForce GTX260 Core 216 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card 896-P3-1255-AR - Lifetime Warranty (Personal Computers)
These cards are really excellent. You can't do better for the price. I have a gtx280 and gtx260. They perform similarly, but the gtx260 is almost half the price.
Basically, the gtx260 does fine on a good 500W power supply with enough amps (mine is on an Antec Earthwatts with two 17amp +12volt rails).
The gtx280 needs more power. I have mine on a 720W Enermax which is probably more than enough. I could SLI two 260s on it.
The gtx260 is well-matched to a 22" or smaller widescreen LCD monitor at 1680x1050.
The gtx280 is well-matched to 24" screen size at 1920x1200 (Full HD).
Both of the cards look alike, are the same large size, and both idle cool and quiet and exhaust the hot air outside the case. Even under load, the cards do not get too loud.
Good engineering, good price, and in my experience very stable and high-performing Vista drivers (32 and 64 bit).
A next level card. I'm happy this time around. The...Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Great Video Card!!!,
July 30, 2009 Reynaldo (Caracas, VEN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: EVGA GeForce GTX260 Core 216 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card 896-P3-1255-AR - Lifetime Warranty (Personal Computers)
Very impressive upgrade from a 8800GT/512, core temps idles at 47C and tops at 66C full load (Case thermaltake Soprano and room temp at 27C), Crysis plays excellent!!! system specs and benchmarks below:
System:
- C2D Q6600@2.4GHz
- 4GB DDR2/800 OCZ Gold
- MSI P45 Platinum
- 500GB WD Sata2
- Flat Panel Samsung 216BW
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CRYSIS WARHEAD
System Information
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP
System memory: 4 GB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU speed: 2400 MHz
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 C216 - 896 MB
Benchmark information
Demo: Avalanche 2
Quality: Very High (tweaked DX10) (ULTRA MODE: Google it!)
Renderer mode: DirectX 9
Antialising mode: Off
Filtering mode: None
MultiGPU support: Disabled
Boost renderer: Disabled
Use Custom Config File: No
Random .exe: Disabled
Resolution: 1280 × 800...Read more
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Worth every dime !!!,
June 25, 2009 RagenRat "A man's only as good as his word !!" (Aurora IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: EVGA GeForce GTX260 Core 216 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card 896-P3-1255-AR - Lifetime Warranty (Personal Computers)
After much looking and thinking about stepping up to a card of this caliber I did make the plunge. I have two SLI computers and have spent a lot of money for two cards but never this much for a single card.
I was very pleased to see the the windows rating topped out at 5.9 with this card and better yet plays movies at High res. all day long. Game play is second to none that I have played with this card. Getting it into my case however took a little work. I did have to move some of my wiring to get it in and buy a few sata cables that had right angles to clear by laying flat out of the way. The length of this does require a mid atx or full case to work. Mines a mid atx case, This single card works as well as my SLI computers at a lower cost figuring all the extra components required to complete a SLI set up. DDR2 computers can really benefit from running a DDR3 video card.
Buying this card has been a great experience for me. Hope this help's make spending this much for a...Read more
