The Calibre X460G is an interesting card to consider, with a pretty good overclock right from the factory. Thanks to this, in most of the benchmarks it went right under the stock clocked GTX 470 and, occasionally it even exceeded its performances. Right from the outside aspect of the box to the insides, we can see that Sparkle has put in extra effort in their "special edition" Calibre series.

Thanks to the custom cooler from Arctic Cooling, the card succeeds to maintain very low operating temperatures in IDLE (26 degrees Celsius) and no more than 52°C in Full Load at a room temperature of 20.6 degrees Celsius, at decent noise levels, even if the GPU frequency has been raised from 675MHz to 790MHz. These results could invite us to overclock the GPU even more.

The only problem I can think of is the fact the cooling system occupies 3-slots and when going SLI, very little space will remain between the cards.

The card can be found in shops for about 175,14 Euros, an interesting offer considering that GTX 470 video cards (stock clocked) can be still found for about 200+ Euros.

Sparkle Calibre X460G Recommended For

I would like to thank again to Sparkle for giving me the opportunity to test out this video card.