Thread: MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5

The MSI N460GTX OC Cyclone 768D5 works from the factory with a higher GPU clock of 728 instead of 675 MHz. With the included overclocking program "Afterburner", you can elicit the Cylone model even more power. Among other things, can also increase the supply of graphics chips. MSI also uses a circular radiator and fan combination that should make for a quiet operation.



The MSI N460GTX OC Cyclone 768D5 dominated converting HD video with the graphics processor in all tested compression formats. Particularly rapid was the card for VC-1 encoded files in the WMV container with just under 13 seconds for a minute of film - great! In addition, the graphics processor could relieve the MSI card the CPU when playing HD video formats almost complete. Only DivX video took the CPU processing power to just under a fifth to complete.

The MSI N460GTX OC 768D5 Cyclone uses the powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 graphics processor the currently most economical entry into the GeForce 400-series, which is also fully DirectX 11 is compatible. Although MSI for the Cyclone model, the throttled version of the 460er chips with only a 192 bit wide memory bus uses, the gaming performance was good to very good. The MSI graphics card achieved up to a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels fluid frame rates for all gaming tests and with generally high image quality settings. Thus, the Cyclone model is unless there is special power-hungry DirectX 11 titles for PC gamers with a maximum of 24-inch TFT screen.