MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC

sniperone · 27 Jan 2011 at 10:41

just ordered one of these bad boys . anyone have one or used a card with this cooler on ? will it be a big improvment over my 9800gtx+ in sli ?

been waiting so long for an upgrade . gona be like christmas tommorow

Doggie2k · 27 Jan 2011 at 10:49

I'm waiting for mine today cmon delivery man!!!

killzoiker · 27 Jan 2011 at 10:51

same, cant wait

Marine-RX179 · 27 Jan 2011 at 10:52

Generally speaking even GTX460 is faster than 9800GTX+SLI, so the GTX560 would be even faster than that by quite a margin.

Here's some results for your reference...:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/01/27/msi-geforce-gtx-560-ti-1gb-review/8

sniperone · 27 Jan 2011 at 10:56

Anyone else use standard next day free delivery ?
i always use next day delivery before 12am because of work . But day off tommorow so thought i would save 15 pounds . just wondered what there delivery times are like on the free service

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jan 2011 at 10:59

sniperone said:
Anyone else use standard next day free delivery ?
i always use next day delivery before 12am because of work . But day off tommorow so thought i would save 15 pounds . just wondered what there delivery times are like on the free service

All depends on your DPD courier mate and what his preferred route is. With mines I never seem to get a delivery later than 11am

anjs · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:00

I hope it has the right Bios for the overclock

sniperone · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:03

much faster than my 9800gtx+sli . im in for a shock i guess then . upgraded everything but my graphics cards in the last 3 years .

could probrably sell those 2 on for a few quid . still under warranty to

Marine-RX179 · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:11

What CPU are you using by the way? The last thing you would want is an old slow dual-core CPU holding your new card back

biuro74 · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:13

Marine-RX179 said:
Generally speaking even GTX460 is faster than 9800GTX+SLI, so the GTX560 would be even faster than that by quite a margin.

Here's some results for your reference...:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/01/27/msi-geforce-gtx-560-ti-1gb-review/8

Generally speaking GTX 460 is very slighly faster than 9800GTX+ SLI - sometimes quicker, sometimes slower. I mean 768 MB model (depends on 9800's freqs exactly).

So 560 Ti will be ~30-40% quicker. And your minimum FPS will raise a bit, too.

sniperone · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:15

no probs there mate .

asus gene 3 x58
i7 920 4.ghz
6bg corsair Dominator
hx750 psu

think im just good enough :-)

Marine-RX179 · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:25

biuro74 said:
Generally speaking GTX 460 is very slighly faster than 9800GTX+ SLI - sometimes quicker, sometimes slower. I mean 768 MB model (depends on 9800's freqs exactly).

Actually even the GTX460 768MB is faster than 9800GTX+SLI, as 9800GTX+SLI does not equal to 9800GTX+ speed x2 because SLI does not scale at 100% (only 40-70% on average) for the 9800GTX+.

bhavv · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:28

They are yummy. Mine do 950 Mhz at just 1025 mV (stock voltage is 1012 mV).

But they fail at 980 Mhz+

They wont all overclock to 1000 Mhz like I thought they would. 950 Mhz should be possible though, which is the speed that the MSI SOC will be using.

So the Gigabyte SOC @ 1 Ghz is a very good buy as well, but its super fugly!

Marine-RX179 · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:30

bhavv said:
They are yummy. Mine do 950 Mhz at just 1025 mV (stock voltage is 1012 mV).

But they fail at 980 Mhz+

They wont all overclock to 1000 Mhz like I thought they would. 950 Mhz should be possible though, which is the speed that the MSI SOC will be using.

So the Gigabyte SOC @ 1 Ghz is a very good buy as well, but its super fugly!

In what ways it fail to clock higher? Driver crashing, or start artefacting?

bhavv · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:39

Marine-RX179 said:
In what ways it fail to clock higher? Driver crashing, or start artefacting?

Black Screen. No artifacts. I tried up to max voltage and its the same. Like if 950 Mhz is possible at 1025 mV, they should manage loads more at 1150, but they dont.

Overclocking / Overvolting up to 1150 mV is covered by the warranty on these too, so dont feel afraid to try it, just dont go past the Afterburner limits.

Mlingard · 27 Jan 2011 at 11:54

Waiting for mine to be delivered today so then i can go pick up the mobo & ram i missed yesterday then start building my system

, was thinking of getting windows 7 while i am out is it a lot better than vista for gaming ???

Marine-RX179 · 27 Jan 2011 at 12:05

bhavv said:
Black Screen. No artifacts. I tried up to max voltage and its the same. Like if 950 Mhz is possible at 1025 mV, they should manage loads more at 1150, but they dont.

Well, in that case finger-cross that may be future release driver will allow your card to push higher without going black screen

bhavv · 27 Jan 2011 at 12:11

Marine-RX179 said:
Well, in that case finger-cross that may be future release driver will allow your card to push higher without going black screen

=D Thats what I hope.

With the GTX 460s I would start getting multicoloured ********** along the top of screen if they were clocked too high telling me to hit esc. With these there are no artifacts, just a black screen crash

Oh, maybe I should try these:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-266.66-whql-driver.html

This is a Release 265 driver for newly released GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU.

Instead of 266.44 from the CD lol.

Kanpai · 27 Jan 2011 at 12:32

I got my MSI GTX560Ti today.

Well what can I say, I was very impressed. Idle temps 35c and ran furmark and temp didn't exceed 60c. I have tried Mafia II with everything on max PhysX on and was getting 47fps and with physx on medium 78fps. Testing a few more games and will report back shortly

So far so good though, this is at standard clock too!

bhavv · 27 Jan 2011 at 12:36

nayan89 said:
So far so good though, this is at standard clock too!

Just turn it up a little to 900 / 2200 to pretend you got a Gigabyte OC one instead