MSI N460GTX HAWK – Multiplied Overclocking Potential with Triple Over Voltage

Test Results

Alien VS Predator

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Texture Quality – Very High; Shadow Quality – High; SSAO – On; AF x16; No-MSAA

Enhanced with DirectX 11 graphics, this game provides a good proving ground for today’s graphics card. Here, MSI N460GTX HAWK is about 12% faster compared to a standard GTX 460. Overclocking the card further increases its performance to 26% above the reference version.

CRYSIS

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 10; Quality Preset – High; No-AA

Cryis was one of the most resource hungry games, back to the time when it was first released three years ago. The graphics technology it uses -albeit a bit dated- remains relevant with today’s standards. We noticed a 13% performance difference between the N460GTX HAWK and standard GTX 460. When we overclocked the HAWK, the gap widens to around 26%.

LEFT4DEAD

Setting : 1920×1080; No-AA; AF-Trilinear; Maximum Quality

With its Source Engine, this game proved to be not much of a challenge for modern graphics cards, including those in our test. Overclocking the N460GTX HAWK brings the frame count to a whopping 150 FPS, or about 24% more compared to the standard, 1 GB GTX 460.

Metro 2033

Setting : DirectX 11; Advance DOF, No-Advance PhysX, MSAA x4, AF x16

Contrary to Left 4 Dead, all graphics cards in our test could not produce acceptable frame rate in Metro 2033, at least when using the above graphics settings. Overclocking the MSI N460GTX HAWK brought us a nearly-playable 26 FPS, under “high” detail settings (1680×1050).