Gigabyte's GTX 260 Super Overclock: A GTX 275 on the Cheap?

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• Jamahl - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - link

  It must be difficult to review fairly right now but this was a nice review.
  
  I do feel that the overall recommendation should be towards the 5850 more strongly. Yes it is priced a little higher, yes it is "only" 25% faster and 30% more costly, but the additional features double that 25% faster and we all know this.
  
  I suspect the 5850 is going to increase the gap as time goes on, and I believe most of us will agree with that too.
  
  A more forceful point on the pricing of this card (the 260 being reviewed) would have been another alternative. Overall it was a decent and interesting review.

• DC 10 - Saturday, December 26, 2009 - link

  This Review was a long time in the coming!!!
  
  Yet this review seems to almost seems to have a chip on it's shoulder - when it is clearly seen to be just as good card as a GTX275-280 - I got the impression that it was regrettable that this card was too good - kinda silly to me
  
  I have the MSI GTX260 OCv3 and It's OC'd to 690 on the core / 1436 shader / and 1200 mem clock- It pretty much comes close to a GTX280 -
  
  Anything in the GTX275-280 range this card or MY MSI Card which is the same as this card, but with Better Cooling (not factory cooling) should be considered easily.
  
  FYI - MSI did a great job by going with a Non traditional cooling setup for their OCV3 cards - especially SLI or Tri-SLI - This card reviewed and my MSI card simply reveal what is at stake here - Pricing and Marketing...
  
  The review showed what most of us already knew who own these cards - That NVidia could slash prices the way AMD has done - instead of being uppidy knuckle-heads...
  
  It's good to see Anandtech - review something like this - could not deny what these cards cand do price/performance wise - hard to ignore...
  

• yacoub - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - link

  I dunno, the 5770 is shaping up nicely for a $160 card:
  http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33953...">http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33953...
  http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1458978">http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1458978
  http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15876/1/">http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15876/1/
  

• palladium - Monday, October 12, 2009 - link

  Hmm... wonder how SiliconDoc would reply to this.
  

• The0ne - Monday, October 12, 2009 - link

  Why would you even care? O.o

• teohhanhui - Monday, October 12, 2009 - link

  He's got an appointment with the psychiatrist.

• sparkuss - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - link

  Is there something I should read into this difference in the charts?
  
  I'm probably going to update to 5850/5870 before a full box upgrade and I'm following all the reviews I can find.

• Ryan Smith - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - link

  The 5850 data has been added. We pruned some old data to keep the charts smaller, and I pruned a little too much there.
  
  As for the 5870; Anand and I have matching rigs, but it's not possible to replicate thermal/noise characteristics. He did the noise/thermal testing for the 5800 series articles, while I did this one. As a result new data based on the cards I have was collected, and at the moment I don't have a 5870.

• sparkuss - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - link

  Thanks,
  
  Just wanted to be sure I didn't miss something in the text.