14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that Micro-Star International is just as active as ever on the video card market, to the point where it put together yet another iteration of NVIDIA's performance-grade Fermi card.
End-users may or may not know by now that NVIDIA's 400-series of graphics cards truly took off in terms of appeal when the GTX 460 debuted.
After the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 came to serve the enthusiast segment, the GTX 460 was made for the mainstream, albeit the higher segment of it.
Following the launch, NVIDIA's various partners naturally revealed many customized models, with or without factory overclocking.
Now, it is shown that Micro-Star International has finished its newest board, one very similar, in power, to the N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC.
Unlike the N460GTX-SE, this does not come with less CUDA cores or any other modifications to the base specs, being just the full-version GTX 460, only made better and designed with a red and black color theme.
It has the 40nm-based GF104 GPU (graphics processing unit) working at 725 MHz, which is 50 MHz more than the stock 675 MHz.
Likewise, the shaders (336 CUDA cores) are clocked at 1,450 MHz instead of the reference 1,350 MHz, while the 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM operates at 3,600 MHz.
There is also a memory interface of 256 bits, as well as dual-DVI and HDMI, for video output, plus support for 2-way SLI, PhysX and CUDA, in addition to the obligatory DirectX 11.
What's more, in order to ensure a high stability even with the factory overclocking, MSI threw in its Military Class Components.
As for cooling, there is a dual-slot solution with a 90mm fan and a pair of direct touch copper heatpipes.
European stores are supposedly already listing the newcomer with a price tag of as low as 155 Euro.