Too long, don’t want to read : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtbLn7wLAPk
Before we get into the dusty GTX 460, let me tell you a story. There’s a type of nostalgia that computer parts being especially if they were with you in the beginning. Anyone who’s obsessed with computers remembers the summers, the winters, the restless school nights messing around with dumb programs, playing games and especially your parents coming in and telling you to go outside. My parents were really strict about computers and game consoles, since my grades were usually pretty bad and I was crazy about that stuff. Going outside was a rare thing for me haha.
But this isn’t no ordinary GTX 460. This GTX 460 is Steves. Steve has been one of my friends since 8th grade and it was the conversation that led us to being friends. We were at one of the tables in science class and I overheard something about counter-strike. I shit my pants, I wasn’t super into counter-strike but I was fascinated with PC gaming. To me it seemed like out of reach with my piece of shit machine, so I had to ask what his specs were.
He says blah, blah, blah. GTX 460. I was like holy fuck, this guy’s got a GTX 460??? That was godly to me since at the time, my machine was a really old xeon machine with DDR1 memory and a 32mb AGP card. We ended up talking some more and we become friends.
But me and steve were talking about when we first met and he said that he thought I was a complete douche, which is fucking hilarious to me. That’s how I feel with everyone, I feel creepy and douchey when I meet people, so at least that gives me some support to that idea.
But what was hilarious though is that I remember coming into steve’s room in the summer it was 90 degrees, his room is getting torched by his shitty amd athlon quad core and his 460 crammed into this small hp case. He would always be playing battlefield and TF2.
Eventually after a while me and him end up upgrading our systems and we both got GTX 560 TIs.
A year later after we met, it ends up in Stevens computers, our other friend, which happens to be named Steve. He used it for a summer or two, blasting away at TF2 and video editing and eventually ended up on his wall.
Fast forward several years later and it’s still on his table, clueless to whether it works or not. It’s been dropped, handled like shit and even been through him moving houses. I’ve been using this crappy GPU in my main machine and Steven said sure, so we tested it out and BAM. It’s working. It made this horrific noise when it was first powered on. There was something stuck in the fan but it quickly got blown out once the fans got up to speed and the machine posted with the card. I think everyone underestimates the durability of computer parts. It’s either really fragile or a tank, the GTX 460 is a tank for sure.
But I’ve been using it in my desktop machine for gaming and video editing and I’ve had absolutely no problems with it, sometimes you don’t need a GTX 1080 to have fun.
