Nearly two weeks ago I attended i40, or “Insomnia 40” to give it its full title, a LAN gaming event run by Multiplay UK. It is my once-a-year event where I can play computer games for as long as I like for four days. This year I decided that I would have a small computer upgrade to go with
— a new graphics card, the GeForce GTX 460. For the princely sum of £170 I got arguably the best value card in its market segment and can finally retire my aging 8800 GTX.
The card performed admirably at 1680×1050 and 1920×1080 (FullHD) resolutions with everything turned up to max and some extra anti-aliasing forced onto some games that don’t support it natively — Starcraft 2 I’m looking at you!
The card is quite power efficient when idling in Windows, and I can’t hear it over any of the other quiet fans in my case. All in all, I recommend this card whole heartedly if you want something that is likely to last a couple of years.
I’m seriously tempted to go SLI with it so I can crank the AA to 32x and/or maybe give surround gaming a go.
https://www.multiplay.co.uk/ 🪦
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