MSI Slaps Triple Overvoltage Function onto New Fermi Card
MSI Slaps Triple Overvoltage Function onto New Fermi Card
Posted 09/02/2010 at 9:23am
| by Paul Lilly
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MSI's latest Fermi-based graphics card is a tweaker's dream, assuming you sit around dreaming about cranking voltage knobs on your hardware. That's exactly what you can do with MSI's new N460GTX Hawk, supposedly the world's first videocard with a triple overvoltage function to support core voltage, memory voltage, and PLL voltage adjustments.
MSI says the N460GTX Hawk is also the only model on the market to have successfully achieved 1GHz on air, a feat made possible in part by the 7+1 PWM power design, V-Check Points (which allows users to measure voltage on the graphics card with a multimeter), active phase switching (APS), and the dual-fan Twin Frozr II heatsink.
With the core clockspeed cranked to 1GHz, Indonesian overclocker "Hazzan" posted a 3DMark Vantage score of 21,706 (18,725 GPU, 41,552 CPU), an impressive mark for an air cooled setup.
No word yet on price or availability.
Image Credit: MSI
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Keith E. Whisman
September 02, 2010 at 10:00am
That's cool, you can volt mod the card without volt modding the card. Pencil is not needed. Awesome. So can you overclock the heck out of two cards, one card installed at a time and overclocked and over volted till it's stupid fast and both running at the same clocks and then run both cards together in SLI at the overclocked and over volted settings? Are the settings saved to the video card bios or does everything rely on settings that are saved on your computer? I hate lame setups that don't save the settings to the card because last time I ran an SLI setup it was really hard messing around with the setting for each individual card or anything I did to one card would work on the other or not show up in SLI.
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