If you bought a regular clocked GeForce GTX 460 from eVGA then good news, they decided to increase the clock frequencies to be a little more competitive. eVGA slapped it all arround a marketing program called Free Performance Boost.
This program simply entails a BIOS update applying higher clocks on the GTX 460 SKUs. Here it is, the EVGA 460 FPB Update, changelist as follows:
- Core/Processor clock increased to 720/1440 (Part numbers 768-P3-1360-XX and 01G-P3-1371-XX Only)
- Fanspeed unlocked to allow up to 100%
- Download the correct .zip file below for your graphics card:
768-P3-1360-XX - EVGA GeForce GTX 460
768-P3-1362-XX - EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SuperClocked
01G-P3-1371-XX - EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB EE (External Exhaust)
01G-P3-1373-XX - EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SuperClocked 1024MB EE (External Exhaust)
- Extract the files to a location on disk.
- Make sure no programs are running in the background, and double click update.exe.
- Press "Y" to begin the update.
- DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RESET DURING THE FLASH PROCESS!
- After update, restart PC.
- Reinstall the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers after bootup.