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Gigabyte 560 900mhz OC vs 560 900mhz SOC

melat0nin

melat0nin

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Hi all

I'm about to buy a 560 when I came across two variations of the 560 on another website:

£175:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU
Core/Mem clock: 900 (std 822) /4000 MHz

£170:
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 900MHz 1GB PCI-E DVI Super OverClock
Clock Speed 900 MHz
Memory Clock Speed 4.008 GHz

According to the Gigabyte website (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/list.aspx?s=43&p=52,53@53,62&v=1,1@2,16) one is the 'OC edition' and the other is the 'SOC edition'... BUT the SOC edition on the Gigabyte website is 1000/2000/4580 core/shader/memory, whereas **** are advertising as 900/?/4008.

Do you think the SOC advertised is incorrectly labelled and has in fact got the specs on the Gigabyte site? Or is this an older, less overclocked SOC edition?

Confusing stuff!

PS the place I saw these rhymes with 'blabs' ;)
 
GTX560 is not the same as GTX560Ti...GTX560 only has 336 Processing Cores, whereas the GTX560Ti has 384 Processing Cores, so the GTX560Ti is faster, even on the same clock speed.

If it's easier for you, you can think of GTX560 as Nvidia's equivalent to AMD's 6870, and GTX560Ti as Nvidia's equivalent to AMD's 6950 1GB.
 
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Looks like one is a 560 and the other is a 560 Ti. So the vanilla 560 is ruled out.

Next question - what's better, a factory-overclocked Gigabyte (900MHz) or a MSI 560 Ti Twin Frozr (880MHz) which has a lot of scope for overclocking? Both have decent reviews re noise levels (quite important to me), and MSI gets good reviews re overclocking. Decisions, decisions.
 
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Next question - what's better, a factory-overclocked Gigabyte (900MHz) or a MSI 560 Ti Twin Frozr (880MHz) which has a lot of scope for overclocking? Both have decent reviews re noise levels (quite important to me), and MSI gets good reviews re overclocking. Decisions, decisions.
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To be honest both are equally good...both good brand, both have UK base for RMA and both offer 3 years warranty.

While the Gigabyte version is clocked at 900MHz which is 20MHz higher than MSI's, it's nothing special since basically all GTX560Ti can do 900MHz no problem. As for how much higher can overclocking goes, it is not so much about rather it is Gigabyte or MSI, it is more down to if the particular card you receive got a good GPU that can reach higher overclock.

Personally I would pick the MSI out of the two, purely because I think the cooler is better since it got a Aluminium Shroud, whereas Gigabyte's Shroud is plastic (if I'm not mistaken).
 
Thanks for the replies guys. This is really confusing.. as if NV/ATi editions weren't complicated enough, there's a further layer of trouble caused by individual manufacturers' model numbering.

I think the MSI is what I'll go for - that was my instinct before I came across the Gigabyte. Thanks!
 
One more tip is that you should have a fan on your Antec 300's side panel as exhaust. This is because the Twin FrozR II cooler dump heat into the case, and top and rear exhausts are too far away to effectively remove the heat at the lower half of the case.

My 5850 also got a Twin FrozR II cooler, and the temp difference between having the side-panel fan as intake and exhaust is that exhaust is 5C lower than intake when under load. This make sense as intake would from the side-panel would just push heat around the lower half of the case, whereas extaust actually REMOVE the heat from case.
 
THanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

I've seen some conflicting advice re PSUs on the net - some say Corsair VX450 will be fine for 560Ti, others say 500w minimum is needed. I bought the Corsair back in 2008 precisely because it would have upgrade potential... what do you guys think? Spec is as in my sig - no optical drive or USB stuff (except mouse & occasional MP3/memory stick). As it happens I have a watt meter and, with my 4850, my system pulls only 200w on load (Deus Ex HR). Thought that was quite interesting.

EDIT: this dude says the VX450 runs the 560Ti 'beautifully'.. that's good enough for me :)
 
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I have a gigabyte gtx 460 oc and was really impressed with the card, which also recomends a 500w psu. As for the gtx 560 ti soc at what price you was quoting would be an excellent buy.
 
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melat0nin said:
Thanks for the replies guys. This is really confusing.. as if NV/ATi editions weren't complicated enough, there's a further layer of trouble caused by individual manufacturers' model numbering.

I think the MSI is what I'll go for - that was my instinct before I came across the Gigabyte. Thanks!
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The MSI is the one I'd go for. I have a GB card with the WindForce cooler and I've been really happy with it, but the Twin Frozr is awesome.
 
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