EVGA GTX 460 1GB Superclocked EE (External Exhaust) Review

EVGA Precision & OC Scanner

Along with MSI’s Afterburner software, EVGA’s Precision is known as one of the most versatile and user friendly programs around when it comes to overclocking NVIDIA cards. Not only does it allow for real-time monitoring of clock speeds, temperatures, fan speed and other parameters but it also offers robust clock speed adjustments. For the GTX 400-series, EVGA has included customized skins which are specific to every GPU.


The EVGA OC Scanner meanwhile is currently only available to those of you who own EVGA graphics cards and register them but the functionality it offers is currently unparalleled. Included is a benchmarking and stress testing utility with artifact scanning capability in order for you to test the stability of any overclock done in Precision. It also allows for unlocking of the GTX 400-series’ power consumption characteristics so the card can draw more power than the usual limiters will allow it to. This could in effect push overclocks to stratospheric levels if the right cooling and power supply is used.

Unfortunately, this utility’s scanning function does not yet properly load two GTX 460 cards in SLI as the profiles for the OpenGL 4.0 renderer have yet to be created. Let’s hope this gets done soon.