IMO, yea for some games it is good for but games with cutting edge engines like Cry2, Cry3, Frostbite 2, ID Tech 4 (even old dx9 games like gta4 uses more than a gig) and so on I would say no. Also what do you call a big jump, this is purely hypothetical but Im willing to guess that a 470 @ 1.087 with 800mhz or more will beat 2 gtx 460's in a synthetic benchmark. I think heat will be the big issue with this card when it comes to overvolting and clocking.

og4tcm

But if 1GB is not enough, what is? I mean, what about everyone else who buys 1GB cards like the 450/550 and 550/560? Are you saying its not enough to max every setting? All I know, is that I can guarantee I will see a huge jump in performance between my old 470 and this 2Win card. 

And I may have jumped on this card prematurely, but again as I was saying, if I really don't like it, I can return it and just go with a 570, or front the extra 50 bucks and go with a 580 (wish this one would be available for the step up program). I wont be gaming on anything more than 1080p for a long time (just bought a new LED monitor :P)

Well from everything I've read and seen, the GF 104 runs cooler and draws less power than the GF 100. Granted, it's two 104's on one card, but I wouldn't think it would put out more heat than two 460's in SLI... I really hope that someone that buys this card has two 460's to do a comparative benchmark comparison. I'm really interested in seeing how it does.
Maybe I don't full understand SLI, but why wouldnt games utilize all 2GB of memory (even if its on two seperate GPUS)?
 
 

blackplague61021

IMO, yea for some games it is good for but games with cutting edge engines like Cry2, Cry3, Frostbite 2, ID Tech 4 (even old dx9 games like gta4 uses more than a gig) and so on I would say no. Also what do you call a big jump, this is purely hypothetical but Im willing to guess that a 470 @ 1.087 with 800mhz or more will beat 2 gtx 460's in a synthetic benchmark. I think heat will be the big issue with this card when it comes to overvolting and clocking.

Well the way I understand the design of the card heat from the front gpu has to travel past the back gpu to exit out the back of the case. so truly the back gpu on the card is getting super heated, unless it is pumping heat from the front gpu into your case. Granted Im sure it works just fine at stock but how much overclocking can be done without water blocks(if they even make them for this card).

og4tcm

Well from everything I've read and seen, the GF 104 runs cooler and draws less power than the GF 100. Granted, it's two 104's on one card, but I wouldn't think it would put out more heat than two 460's in SLI... I really hope that someone that buys this card has two 460's to do a comparative benchmark comparison. I'm really interested in seeing how it does.
Maybe I don't full understand SLI, but why wouldnt games utilize all 2GB of memory (even if its on two seperate GPUS)?

blackplague61021

IMO, yea for some games it is good for but games with cutting edge engines like Cry2, Cry3, Frostbite 2, ID Tech 4 (even old dx9 games like gta4 uses more than a gig) and so on I would say no. Also what do you call a big jump, this is purely hypothetical but Im willing to guess that a 470 @ 1.087 with 800mhz or more will beat 2 gtx 460's in a synthetic benchmark. I think heat will be the big issue with this card when it comes to overvolting and clocking.

So I bought this card and had it overnighted and received it on Tuesday. Popped it in installed the drivers off he CD and after looking in the device manager it showed up as two GTX 460 cards. One showed up fine with the drivers installed and the second showed up but it had a yellow alert icon on it. Did the normal troubleshooting and figured it was the usuall SLI problem of my realtek nics causing the problem but it wasn't. After a full day of troubleshooting I found out I had failed to realize that my mobo did not support SLI and did support Crossfire only.
 
So before you buy this card even though it's a all in one card it's configured to show up just as any SLI configuration will.
 
1. You mobo must be able to support SLI or this card wont work.
2. Card shipped with Nvidia 266.85 drivers I believe.
3. Though card is big I had no problems fitting this into my case.
 
I did for the record pop this into my brothers machine which does support SLI and the card worked like a champ.
 
Anyways yes I know what I just said might be newb and obvious just letting people know what problem I ran into.
 
My new sandy bridge mobo,cpu and ram arrive today once I have everything up with this new GTX 460 2win I'll post benchmark results.
 
First time poster, cheers.

stillborn07

If that really does end up being the case (did you contact EVGA support?) that is a HUGE blow to this card.  None of the current documentation mentions this at all (that I have found).  If you have to have a SLI board in the first place what is the point really? 

 
I did infact contact EVGA support and after having told them the troubleshooting steps I did they at first thought the hardware might be at fault but after doing a clean install of the card TWICE they said maybe my bios wasn't up to snuff but I did direct the support tech to my mobo's page and everything he said the card required was infact there. PCI 2.0 ect ect we even went into the bios to make sure my volts to support the power this card needed was correct and everything was fine. The only thing that had not been done was trying it in another system but he was convinced it was my bios. Like I said though we both obviously missed the fact that my mobo was Crossfire only and not SLI supported.

Humm... I wonder if it has to do with the 460's compatibility with some mobos.  See this thread at the nVidia forum : http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=dcdc5f989064135459be93ab2c4a5ce5&showtopic=187401
Strange how one worked and the other didn't.

stillborn07

Humm... I wonder if it has to do with the 460's compatibility with some mobos.  See this thread at the nVidia forum : http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=dcdc5f989064135459be93ab2c4a5ce5&showtopic=187401
Strange how one worked and the other didn't.

 
This may be the issue with mine but honestly I have not the knowledge of doing any extensive testing any further but I do for the record have a Gigabyte mobo. I agree it seems pointless to have this card only work on boards that support SLI when the card itself cant be SLI'd... Sorry if I just made this whole conversation even more confused just wanted to share what I've been dealing with.

Yeah, thats another thing... if the 2Win locks my system up, then its guaranteed I will get a 570/580.
 
Oh, and another article I found interesting about how memory plays a difference and the scaling between the 768, 1024, and 2048 MB SLI'd GTX 460's: http://benchmarkextreme.com/Articles/GTX%20460%20ANALYSIS/P1.html
 
Most of the tests didnt really see a huge jump in FPS between the 1GB and 2GB SLI'd cards... so for most of todays games it seems that memory doesn't play a huge part (obviously it's important, but once you pass that 1GB mark, it doesn't seem to scale as well)

Well, I think this card has already been forgotten, the 590 Classified is out, so, thar ya go.

where is this product??? 

jrodil

where is this product??? 

You should have read my last post. http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=926631 Sadly enough, this is not the first time I've seen this type of situation happen.
 
 

DeepPurple23

I'll test it tomorrow in a non SLI MB to see if it will run properly.

That would be appreciated, hopefully a single slot board. I have an MSI-G41M4-F mobo, single PCI-E X 16 slot. If this will not make full use of the two GPU's, what is the point?
 
As I said, this card has been forgotten, notice that Jacob has not been back in here since the 590 was released.
 
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Welcome to the forums!
 
If you don't want to trust your American friends, I'm a Canadian friend, I'll fix you up. Although, there are more than enough people in here, American/Canadian that would help you in any way possible, and 99.99% of them are trustworthy.
 
Your only issue would be if there was an RMA involved, you'd have to ship it back here to the original purchaser, have them RMA the card, then ship it back to you. This could take months.
 
I would suggest dropping an email to the addy which is closet to you, and see what they can do for you.
 

EVGA Europe

Support

Tel: +49.89.189.049 11

English: supportEU@evga.com

German: supportDE@evga.com

French: supportFR@evga.com

Dutch: supportNL@evga.com

Netherlands Office

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tel: +31 23 7526 899

Sales email: gperng@evga.com

German Office

Munich, Germany

Tel: +49.89.189.049.0

Sales email: salesDE@evga.com

UK Office

Sales: +44.791.780.7030

Sales email: lrossiter@evga.com

French Office

Sales email: llatour@evga.com

Polish Office

Sales email: llasecki@evga.com
 If that doesn't work, escalation does, drop a line to Joe Darwin, I'd have to say he's pretty much the top gun around here, and he does listen and help jdarwin@evga.com  http://www.evga.com/support/
Good luck, and let us know how it works out, if you really want this card, it can be arranged.

Thanks a lot for the information, dhemke. I've sent a quick email to EVGA inquiring about a possible release date here in the Netherlands.
 
You're probably right about the RMA situation. I suppose EVGA can't start making exceptions for single customers, since then they had to start making exceptions for everyone. That, along with shipping costs and the very likely prospect of import taxes makes importing one a very unappealing prospect. Let's hope EVGA will release the card in Europe instead so that can all be avoided.
 
Again, thank you for the speedy and informative reply.

Damon3zz

Thanks a lot for the information, dhemke. I've sent a quick email to EVGA inquiring about a possible release date here in the Netherlands.

You're probably right about the RMA situation. I suppose EVGA can't start making exceptions for single customers, since then they had to start making exceptions for everyone. That, along with shipping costs and the very likely prospect of import taxes makes importing one a very unappealing prospect. Let's hope EVGA will release the card in Europe instead so that can all be avoided.

Again, thank you for the speedy and informative reply.

No probs, I hope everything works out for you, give us an update when you have one.