XFX Geforce GTX 260 Review

Shripad

Hello people.

We have a treat for you today. We are taking a look at the XFX Geforce GTX 260. It’s one of the two GT200 series cards recently launched by NVIDIA. It’s a cheaper of the two GT200 cards and is going head to head against ATI’s Radeon HD4870 in the market today.

This is very significant to enthusiast market. NVIDIA has a long history of releasing a card that is almost as good as their flagship card but one that costs significantly less. The GT was that card in the past. This time around NVIDIA has decided to drop their usual naming, and went in for different naming scheme. They had ran out of the 4 digit numbers anyway with their 9800 series

So this slightly scaled down version is now called GTX 260, a slightly crippled version of the big brother GTX 280.

Today we are going to put this card through some vigorous game testing and IQ testing as well. So lets have a look.

has33 · #1 (**permalink**) By has33 on 30 Jul 08, 08:35 AM

Lemme be the 1st 2 thank U

Nice 1 funky

not 2 shot, nor 2 long, right up to the mark and says all I wanted 2 hear

Dug it

Shripad · #2 (**permalink**) By Shripad on 30 Jul 08, 08:37 AM

Heh thanks.

Guys here is the Digg link : Digg - XFX Geforce GTX 260 Review

Checksum · #3 (**permalink**) By Checksum on 30 Jul 08, 08:52 AM

Awesome review as usual funky! You definitely are the undisputed review king of TE! Need to spread reputation

Gannu · #4 (**permalink**) By Gannu on 30 Jul 08, 08:54 AM

$heet!!!

Amazing results from Crysis!!!

That was truly unexpected!!!

Nice work dada...

BTW what was the gripe of removing the stock cooler of the GTX??

stalker · #5 (**permalink**) By stalker on 30 Jul 08, 09:01 AM

good job..
very thorough review mate.. as always

@gannu.. lets jus say funky dada was not ABLE to remove it

Shripad · #6 (**permalink**) By Shripad on 30 Jul 08, 09:01 AM

Its very hard. I am 100% sure the card will sustain some sort of damage tot he cooler body while removing the assembly. There are too many locks at odd places. Only way to unlock them is get the fine flat screw driver in the gap and twist it open. This causes serious dent in card cooler and if screw driver slips, it will definitely take some smd component off the PCB of the card. And I need to forward this card to someone else in good condition

If Rashi gives me go ahead to do whatever to the card, I will take it apart by any means possible

m0h1t · #7 (**permalink**) By m0h1t on 30 Jul 08, 09:48 AM

amazing effort. repped
whats the official dealer quote for the same? and of HD4870 as well.

What did you use to cool the 7200?

muzux2 · #8 (**permalink**) By muzux2 on 30 Jul 08, 09:48 AM

funky, let me tell u honestly, u rock!!
That was awsome review i had ever seen here..I really like IQ screen Shots, multimedia & cinema test which i was eager waiting for someone to put it in review..

thebanik · #9 (**permalink**) By thebanik on 30 Jul 08, 09:51 AM

amazing amazing review their funky, damn professional review....you ought to join some of the bigger magazines as a reviewer/editor man......repped...
Edit : have to spread some reps before repping u again....

Darthcoder · #10 (**permalink**) By Darthcoder on 30 Jul 08, 10:15 AM

Wow, look at the effort there

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Awesome review.
Minor correction (typo), the 5th line on 14th page reads "In crisis he card". But you are bound to have typos when you type like >1000 words

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Awesome review once again.

fangface · #11 (**permalink**) By fangface on 30 Jul 08, 10:38 AM

Awesome review Funky! I enjoyed reading it

Found a bunch of typos, but nothing a spell check and some minor editing cant fix

Shripad · #12 (**permalink**) By Shripad on 30 Jul 08, 11:04 AM

Yup, there were indeed lot of small typos. Have fixed many and some minor changed made to sentences.

Anyone putting their hand up for editing work for the next review?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr47

amazing effort. repped
whats the official dealer quote for the same? and of HD4870 as well.

What did you use to cool the 7200?

Using Xigmatek Achilles HDT S1284 to cool the E7200 at the moment.

saintsinner · #13 (**permalink**) By saintsinner on 30 Jul 08, 11:35 AM

very good review sir!

Thanks!

i_max2k2 · #14 (**permalink**) By i_max2k2 on 30 Jul 08, 11:51 AM

Hey a very nice review! Good numbers going, and crysis results were interesting, however I had a question did you test them using the island gpu benchmark, or a custom time demo?

I ask cause HardOCP, did have some interesting results using a custom timedemo!

And dude these reviews keep getting better! Keep it up! repped!

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