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(30 customer reviews) 65 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Quiet Big Graphics Card,
February 4, 2009 Daniel G. Lebryk (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX260 Core 216-55nm Superclocked 896 MB DDR3 2DVI PCI-Express Video Card 896-P3-1257-AR (Personal Computers)
This graphics card balances a bunch of things, performance, price, size, power consumption and quiet running.
There's definately higher performance cards the GTX 280 core (hotter running, more power hungry) and the new GTX 285 and 295's (much more money). This card sits right between the GTX 260 and 280 cards. Officially this is a GTX 260 core 216 graphics card.
Price wise, this card hits a pretty nice sweet spot, just above the $200 area. The other cards mentioned are significantly more expensive. If you want to spend less money, go for the Radeon's or a 9800 or 8800 series Nvidia. There's nothing wrong with any of those cards, they just have very little headroom anymore.
Size - well this is where things get really confusing and counterintuitive. I purchased an 8800GT overclocked card a while ago (this GTX 260 replaces that card). I thought, great, single slot, small card it will work great. Yes it ran great but the noise level was just awful...Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
An Awesome Card, When it Works Properly,
August 23, 2009 J. Sterling - See all my reviews
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This review is from: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX260 Core 216-55nm Superclocked 896 MB DDR3 2DVI PCI-Express Video Card 896-P3-1257-AR (Personal Computers)
I bought this for my new computer build since this was faster and much cheaper than a 280. It ran any game a threw at it in 1680 x 1050 4x AA 8x AF while maintaining about 100fps and higher (can do about 400-500 in CS:S). This card is huge, and a bit heavy for a video card. I do like the cover on the card because I can just grab the card with my hand, and not worry about breaking or bending anything. It uses 2x 6-pin PCI-E cords, and they are located on the side facing the left side of the case. This allows them to be out of the way of the hard drive cage if that were to be an issue. I believe it is about 5-10mm longer than your standard ATX motherboard. So if you need to measure, just see if you have an 1" to 1-1/2" of space between your motherboard and hard drives, and you will be fine.
After a couple of weeks though, my 260 started having issues.
No matter what game, or how low the settings were, the card would shoot up to 90C and higher. Eventually it would...Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Awsome Card!!,
February 24, 2009 ZinbAd - See all my reviews
This review is from: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX260 Core 216-55nm Superclocked 896 MB DDR3 2DVI PCI-Express Video Card 896-P3-1257-AR (Personal Computers)
This is a great card for the price! Plus I got Far Cry 2.. Playing everything I can throw at it in max settings... Amazon service was awesome.. Got the card in 3 days with free shipping!
