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Featuring GeForce GTX 460 Systems Published: Tue 20th Jul, 2010 | Author: Tarinder SandhuProducts: 3XS i3 SMART Edition GTX 460Companies: SCAN (All SCAN content) printer friendly layout discuss in the forums email to a friend Next page: Up against a two-year-old mid-range PC Advertisement GTX 460 makes it into a system Scan01 Looking at the discrete graphics-card market over the past few years, NVIDIA has often been the hammer - GeForce 8800 GTX - and the nail - GeForce FX 5800. Its latest mid-range graphics-card is the GeForce GTX 460, reviewed here, and, thankfully for NVIDIA, the GPU has enough hammer-like qualities for it to be exciting to both enthusiasts and system builders. Putting value ahead of foot-to-the-floor performance, Scan, a long-time NVIDIA partner, has been quick to integrate the new GTX 400-series GPU into a desktop PC base unit costing a touch over £700. We take a close look at the 3XS i3 OC SMART Edition GTX 460, which is available as a fully-configurable system here. Mid-range appeal There's little need to ship a mid-range system in a huge, expensive chassis, so Scan opts for the mid-sized SilverStone Precision PS04B. Keeping costs down by the use of a plastic body and meshed front-panel, the construction belies the £30 retail price. The topmost of the four 5.25in bays is home to a colour-matching DVD ReWriter, and a further six 3.5in bays are available. The front is also home to the usual USB 2.0 and audio/mic ports. Cooling can taken care of by front- and rear-mounted 120mm fans, although Scan forgoes the intake for this PC. One can even connect a watercooling system into the value-orientated chassis; a couple of appropriate holes are pre-plumbed into the rear. Whipping off the side highlights the neat cabling job done by Scan's engineers. The guts of the system are based around the company's SMART Core i3 bundle that includes an Intel Core i3 530 dual-core, quad-threaded chip overclocked to 4.0GHz (4.20GHz for the bundle, we note) on top of an ASUS P7H55-M micro-ATX motherboard, and backed by 4GB of Corsair DDR3 memory operating at 1,600MHz. Interestingly, the architecture of the processor means that the motherboard supports video outputs through the I/O section, but Scan ignores these and opts for a Gainward GeForce GTX 460 768MB card - although any reference GTX 460 will do. What's pleasing is the fact that the card is pre-overclocked from the default 675MHz/3,600MHz to a lofty 800MHz/3,900MHz. Situated in the upper expansion slot due to the use of a mATX board, a DVI connector needs a little force to fit into the card's port, which sits very close to the edge of the chassis. Missing out on USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps support - the P7H55-M/USB is to one to go for if these are important - the board doesn't provide a second x16 mechanical PCIe slot to enable multi-GPU SLI, which is a shame considering how well two GTX 460s scale. System storage is provided by a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 hard-drive, and so cheap is storage that another 1TB drive will cost you under £50. Adding further drives shouldn'y be a worry with respect to power; the system ships with a decent 450W PSU from Corsair. Value for money Throwing in the now-ubiquitous Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and backed by a two-year warranty: first year insured onsite and second year labour and extended warranty, the £741 asking price also includes delivery via Scan's own couriers - £716 for collection-only. We totted up the price of the components, amounting to some £665, and reckon the system offers decent value for money, taking the overclocking, build and warranty into account. The handy configurator enables you to make wholesale changes to the specification, if the Scan-supplied components don't tickle your fancy, and integration is very sharp. Usage Mid-range components should make for a quiet PC, and the 3XS i3 OC SMART Edition GTX 460's noise profile is whisper-quiet when idling and barely noticeable when gaming - helped, no doubt, by having a quiet fan on the GPU. Indeed, the hard-drive's accesses are, by far, the most noticeable aural distraction, and the machine is just begging for a boot SSD. But just how much performance do you receive from a £700-plus base unit. We're glad you asked. Next page: Up against a two-year-old mid-range PC Copyright © 1998 - 2010, HEXUS.net. All rights reserved. Terms, conditions and privacy information. HEXUS® is a registered trademark of HEXUS Limited. 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Telephone 01244 665700. || computeractive.co.uk Home computing advice in plain english Search Search computeractive.co.uk Keywords: Mobile RSS Primary Navigation Home News Reviews Downloads Step by step guides PC Help Videos Articles Magazine Forums Games Shopping Advertisements You are here: Home > Reviews > Software > Software Applications When it comes to security, the best known isn't always best Review: Eset Smart Security Home Edition security software When it comes to security, the best known isn't always best Written by Simon Williams, Computeractive 05 Mar 2008 Larger Image Verdict: Good points: Good threat detection Does its job quietly Quick scans Few false positive alerts Bad points: Advanced controls are confusing Overall One of the most thorough, performance-friendly security programs we've tested Rating: Price: £30 Many companies are trying to combat the threats posed by viruses and spyware, but one you may not have encountered is Slovakian company Eset. Eset Smart Security combines the conventional virus database – where the company writes specific fixes for known viruses – with a more advanced analysis called Threatsense that protects against new virus outbreaks. The most striking part of Eset Smart Security is the simplicity of its design. Whether this is a good or bad feature will depend on how involved you like to get with your security software's controls.The basics are all on display so it's easy to independently turn the anti-virus and anti-spyware, firewall and anti-spam modules on and off, and there are facilities to add names to the spam blacklist and the list of trusted correspondents, but other than this, most things happen automatically. Advertisement The user can also turn on advanced controls that give a tree-based outline of all the possible settings, so it's possible to select the bit in which you’re interested. While this is an interesting alternative approach to the process of changing settings, it’s more awkward to navigate than a regular control screen with lots of buttons.Anti-spyware protection is becoming more important than anti-virus, as spyware has the potential to steal confidential data and to be more financially damaging. Under test, Smart Security took 34 minutes to complete a virus and spyware scan of just over 500,000 files, which is quick by today's standards. The scan turned up one piece of malware, which was efficiently cleaned.During the scan we continued to run the test PC using regular applications and noticed little slowdown in performance – better than with some of Eset’s competition. The program uses a scoring mechanism for spam, based on bad emails it knows about and on the blacklist to which you can add problem messages.In recent testing by independent virus researchers AV-Comparatives the virus scanner used in Smart Security was rated second overall in new threat detection and was the only product to generate no false alarms. It’s crucial to find a product that pesters you only when there’s important information to relay, and Smart Security scores well on this. 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