EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 55nm Superclocked Edition Video Card Review

Temperature Testing

Even though the 55nm core on this card is able to put down some amazing idle temperatures, the cut-down heatsink contributes to slightly higher load temperatures. However, the acoustical footprint of the EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked 55nm card is noticeably quieter than its 65nm forbearer. Personally, I will take slightly higher temperatures over silence any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Folding @ Home Temperatures

With so many people using their GPUs Folding these days, we thought it was time to include a couple of Folding benchmarks and we will start with what kind of temperatures you will see when folding. These are the peak results recorded after 4 hours of continuous folding with the GPU2 core.

All in all, it seems that the heatsink on this card once again means higher temperatures even though they are quite a bit lower than the ones we saw in the last benchmark.