Well, it has graced me with it's presence. The GTX 260 was sitting on my bed when I arrived home from work. I quickly set to work opening the shipping box, and removing the internals.
Such a beautiful box. Lets see the back.
Alright, down to business, let's open it up...
The Accessories...
The treasure at last.
And now we get to take it out of the packaging. The card must weigh about 4 pounds...
The size in comparison to my arm. The card is 10.5" long...
Out of its anti-static packaging.
This card in particular has no backplate. This denotes that it's the 55nm revision.
Here is my case, with the 8800GT installed. It does look a little messy cable wise, and it's dusty for sure, but there is a clean path from front to back for airflow. All cabling is tucked as close to the back panel as possible.
This is a size comparison between the 8800GT and the GTX260. The card is MASSIVE.
And here would be an awful picture of the GTX 260 installed.
Now, stock clocked, the card comes in at 576/1242/999 [Core/shader/memory], And I managed to overclock it a little bit. Its currently sitting at 700/1500/1140. It passes 10 rounds of the crysis warhead benchmark tool without any artifacting or locking up, and max recorded temps durring the bench were 74 degrees celcius. EDIT: Well, I tested stability in Warhead today, and after playing for about 10 minutes, I got some massive artifacting. I decreased the clocks to superclocked speeds, [626/1350/1107] and everything runs fine now. EDIT2: Well, looks like the memory on this card just sucks, so I have it clocked at 650/1400/1050 now, and I don't see any artifacts in any games. Oh well, for what I'm playing, more than fast enough. I managed to pump out an average framerate of 30.71 at 1680x1050, all enthusiast settings, no anti-aliasing. I beleive my average framerate was still around 30, playing through the first level on high settings. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. I really like the fact that the card underclocks itself while in regular 2D mode, or low power 3D mode. Very energy efficient.
Anyway, that was my blog post for tonight. I'll be playing through FarCry 2 over the next 2 days, and I hope that impresses me, as I've been waiting. [Oh, I already have a copy, the one that came with the GTX 260 is going to be sold with the 8800GT.]
Cheers,
Such a beautiful box. Lets see the back.
Alright, down to business, let's open it up...
The Accessories...
And now we get to take it out of the packaging. The card must weigh about 4 pounds...
The size in comparison to my arm. The card is 10.5" long...
Out of its anti-static packaging.
This card in particular has no backplate. This denotes that it's the 55nm revision.
Here is my case, with the 8800GT installed. It does look a little messy cable wise, and it's dusty for sure, but there is a clean path from front to back for airflow. All cabling is tucked as close to the back panel as possible.
This is a size comparison between the 8800GT and the GTX260. The card is MASSIVE.
And here would be an awful picture of the GTX 260 installed.
Now, stock clocked, the card comes in at 576/1242/999 [Core/shader/memory], And I managed to overclock it a little bit. Its currently sitting at 700/1500/1140. It passes 10 rounds of the crysis warhead benchmark tool without any artifacting or locking up, and max recorded temps durring the bench were 74 degrees celcius. EDIT: Well, I tested stability in Warhead today, and after playing for about 10 minutes, I got some massive artifacting. I decreased the clocks to superclocked speeds, [626/1350/1107] and everything runs fine now. EDIT2: Well, looks like the memory on this card just sucks, so I have it clocked at 650/1400/1050 now, and I don't see any artifacts in any games. Oh well, for what I'm playing, more than fast enough. I managed to pump out an average framerate of 30.71 at 1680x1050, all enthusiast settings, no anti-aliasing. I beleive my average framerate was still around 30, playing through the first level on high settings. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. I really like the fact that the card underclocks itself while in regular 2D mode, or low power 3D mode. Very energy efficient.
Anyway, that was my blog post for tonight. I'll be playing through FarCry 2 over the next 2 days, and I hope that impresses me, as I've been waiting. [Oh, I already have a copy, the one that came with the GTX 260 is going to be sold with the 8800GT.]
Cheers,