• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

which GTX 560Ti

Tribellion

Tribellion

Tribellion

Associate
Joined
19 Feb 2009
Posts
20
Location
Bristol
Hay guys set my mind on a GTX560Ti but torn between these two.

Can someone who has any of these comment on performance and how quiet they are. my PC is next to my daughters bedroom and she is a very light sleeper my DVD rom has woken her up before. I have a Zotac GTX260 and thats very quiet even under load.

Heres the first - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-074-GI

Heres the second as I have an Asus P8Z68 mobo. - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-266-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

Im not overly fussed about the overclock but if it comes like that as long as its not loud and performs well I dont really care.
 
you know what an American guy on my server just said go with MSI they are the better performance that Asus and GB.... think u may have me sold on this
 
Yup, clocks speeds are not as high, however, it isn't "a lot" less, and thus the difference, if any isn't worth worrying about, you shouldn't see any difference between them really.

Would be a different story though if the difference was greater than say 90Mhz, maybe....


Have a look at this, although the GB is a super clocked one, which is heavily overclocked, costs a fair bit more and in general may not be as stable in some games:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...tx-560-ti-roundup-asus-evga-gigabyte-msi.html

Essentially there really isn't much difference between them all as I said, more so between the GB and MSI model, the asus is the better performer overall out of them all (again not enough of a difference to worry about), MSI and GB are the cooler and quieter running cards and once again not enough of a difference to really worry about.

The twin frozr cooler used on the MSI cards are pure quality and a better cooler overall than any other 3rd party vendors coolers IMO.

EDIT:

I am not talking about the super clocked GB model above, just the one you linked, there are a few reviews for it and pretty much show it to be the same more or less as the Asus and MSI model. Think guru have reviewed the GB OC model.
 
Last edited:
I see what you mean its bottom but usually less than 1FPS is most of the benchmark games.. thanks for your help nexus, appreciated.

As stated, Im not hugely bothered about an extra 2 FPS I need it quiet, which is what that and other reviews have said.

im hoping to power it with this: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-056-OC&tool=5 will this do the trick?
 
Last edited:
With the standard 560TI cards, yes it does help with min FPS (however it isn't really a massive difference between the 1GB and 2GB versions).

The 560TI really aren't the most suitable cards to run everything maxed out with 4xAA anyway, if you want to max it out at 1080P, you need a single 570 or greater in order to play smoothly online really.

And for the price of 2GB 560TI (£210-220), you might as well buy the 560TI 448 edition then, performs much better than either a 1GB/2GB 560TI and better than a 2GB 6970, whilst running cooler and quieter than the standard 560TI. If you OC the 560TI 448 a bit, it performs better than a stock 570 then, whilst also still running very quiet and cool.

GTX-560-448-34.jpg


GTX-560-448-35.jpg
 
I only really play SWTOR and used to hit WoW so def dont intend to SLI these and Im a COD fan sorry - I think Battlefield is amazin but i Suck sooo bad at it so its really not for BF3.
 
WHAT?! COD FAN!!!? GET OUT OF HERE!

Just kidding :p
Well then, you will diff be safe with a 1GB 560TI as the only games where 2GB has proved useful (not a huge amount though IMO) is BF 3 (more so with everything maxed especially the AA set to 4) and crysis 2 with the dx11 and high res texture pack.
 
Ive done some serious searching around and Im getting mixed feelings and if anything probaably meaning that there isnt anything to seperate the Twin Frozr II and the DirectCu II TOP in relation to temperaturtes and noise levels.

Performace wise (FPS) the Asus edges it but like by 1 frame most of the time. the Asus seems to run cooler at idle but under load the fans get noisey and this is where the Frozr sgines through.

At the moment OC are bundling the Asus card with BF3 for £5 more than the MSI but as i stated above I prob wont play it too much anyway but it would be nice to see it in all it glory on PC.

Ive def narrowed my choices down to these two cards but i cant see anything to pull one above the other. Yeh the Frozr looks sexy but i have a solid case so it makes no - little difference to me.

God damn you OCuk for making me make these decisions - must put kettle on and continue to scratch head until Monday (pay day)
 
Last edited:
Another thing to remember is that ASUS RMA is terrible and very slow for the UK, MSI etc. are much better for this.

Although I think that this won't be a problem if you deal with OCUK direct. Not a 100% sure on this now.

If you aren't too fussed about BF 3, you could always sell that for £25+, which means the card is even cheaper then ;)
 
Im hoping to not have to RMA either card :confused:

Im like 55/45 in favour of the MSI card simply becuase it has more reviews here on the OCuk site and more people seem to have MSI card in their signatures than Asus. I guess either way I wont be disapointed and its prob going to come down to preference. also by Monday the Asus deal will prob be off and therefore will make the decision for me.

also nexus where is the best area to post about getting the most performance from my machine when my new card and PSU arrive?

i went to Bios on my mobo selected the performance option on my P8Z68 and the thing wouldnt boot, had to clear cmos and remove a Ram module. put ram back in after cmos loaded optimized defaults now its all fine. (apart from that annoying double POST Asus screen :mad: )
 
You shouldn't have to, however it could happen, you would have to be very unlucky :p Really is a very slim chance, but personally I would rather be safe knowing that the card will be sorted out quickly. I have read that people have had to wait up to 4 months for RMA of their asus products.

There are quite a few threads here about them as well. If you just type on google something like "ASUS RMA overclockers UK" and you should see what I mean then.


There is no doubt that MSI is the most popular amongst the brands for GPUs, largely due to their coolers and customer support/service.

The current offer, shouldn't end till the 4th of Jan, however I don't know about BF 3 still being included by the time it ends. I would presume so....


If you mean just by overclocking the GPU etc. post here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=7


Although if you want my advice, don't bother with overclocking until you really need the extra performance. You reduce the lifetime of your components by pushing them to their limits and at the end of the day, all the effort put into getting the clocks etc. stable isn't worth it as you really only see the difference in benchmarks, which have no relevance to real world performance in games and sometimes the OC can not be stable in one game but works great in other games etc.

e.g. My PC in sig is all at stock clocks apart from the GPU (is factory overclocked) and it handles everything great, the only games where I have had to drop settings a fair bit is crysis 2, BF 3 (everything set to low, first game in years I have had to do this :o), homefront, metro 2033, at a res of 1080.
 
Thanks Nexus, no I wont overclock anything unless its factory OC ofc. I was refering to voltages etc.... things i dont undertand. but if u think leaving my settings at optimal defaults is fine then ignore my last post.

I think I've made the decision, MSI. Im not willing to wait a month for a new card if it goes wrong no way.. MSI as u say is prob with EVGA the most common brand. Thanks for all your help with this much appreciated. Ive purchased this machine to last so I hope ive made the right choices..
 
Ah right! :) You shouldn't need to mess with any voltages at all, unless as said, you are going to be overclocking manually through the bios.

No problem! :) And don't worry your rig with a 560TI will be great for gaming and general stuff for a long time, I personally can't see many games becoming any more demanding than BF 3, crysis, crysis 2 with high res pack and metro 2033 any time soon, until the next gen consoles are out (which won't be for a while yet).

And when you do need more GPU power, you can buy another 560TI in the future for SLI (which will obviously be a lot cheaper then) and will comfortably beat a single 580 by quite a bit! :D


One last thing, if you need to any more reassurance about the MSI card VS the ASUS one, check the cards out on the most popular etailer for the USA, *something* egg (don't think I can name the place directly....) and have a look at all the general user reviews ;)
 
Last edited:
Thanks again Nexus, they both sore equally on the egg site and therefore leaves me hanging in the wind Asus performance and their pakaging (not that packaging matters) is also awesome. the guys there complained about MSI cust support too so i think its a persoanl choice. I think if the BF3 offer is still on ill go with that purely because its a free/cheap game.

If not ill save a few quid and get the MSI.

cheers dude
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom