The GF 104 based GTX 460 is the card that has really, really saved the mid range for NVIDIA. These cards are typically priced in the $200 to $250 range that is the meat and potatoes of the GPU market. It's the card the GTX 465 should have been! The release of new games that leverage NVIDIA's Fermi Architecture are coming fast and furious of late with Mafia II, Starcraft II and Lost Planet 2. With these games, the GTX 460 fits right into the high value price point and delivers performance above expectations and above its price point in the 1280 x 1024 to 1680 x 1050 market. Usually in the case of video cards, the overclocked and non-factory cooled cards come out well after the initial introduction.  However, the time frame for tweaked GTX 460s was well.... fast!  At launch we saw the Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum. ECS as well has now brought out their factory hot rod, the Black Series GTX 460. This card comes with a pretty substantial 90Mhz speed bump over the reference clocks on the CUDA cores and a 25Mhz bump on the 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocks to 925Mhz. If that's not enough, ECS has installed a massive heat pipe cooling solution from Arctic Cooling on the Black Series card to make sure heat is not going to be the limiting factor when it comes time to put the screws to it and work some overclocking magic. Let's see how this new addition to ECS's ELITEGROUP Black Series lineup performs and see if the good looks and massive cooling are just for show or if it really helps in the "Go" department.