GTX 560 ti

[Mc808]

Looking at the Gigabyte GTX 560Ti OC. Anyone have a view on it, good/bad?

[TheMadness]

what price and what store? Scan has an Asus DirectCU II for £15 less than the £190 gigabyte OC, for that money I'd just stick with the asus (which as far as I can tell has a better cooler) and twiddle some sliders in afterburner to get the same result for less

[Mc808]

Yeah I was looking at the Scan prices. So the Asus 560Ti then further OC'ing it would be a better option, on the Scan store there are 2 Asus 560Ti one of which is slightly over the Gigabyte one, do you mean this one?

[Ferral]

How about the MSI GTX 560Ti Twin Frozr II card. Its clocked slightly lower than the Gigabyte card but there is enough headroom for a decent OC with MSI Afterburner. The Twin Frozr cards run really cool and are really high quality build.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-m...0mhz-384-cores

The ASUS Direct CU II cards are noisy apparently from what I have seen of the cooler they use in various reviews. The Twin Frozr cards run quiet until they hit about the 70% fan speed, my card has yet to go above 50% fan speed and 65 degrees under load, my processor cooler is a lot noisier than the cards cooler.

[kalniel]

The MSI 560 ti Twin Frozr II has a fairly loud resonance even at low loads - we've got one. But it's not annoying.

[Ferral]

My 570 is silent, I can only hear the fan if I crank it up purposely to 70 % or above, then it sounds like a jet taking off. Trouble with twin fan configs is lower speed and its quiet but if the card starts getting really hot and the fan has to ramp right up then it can be extremely noisy.

Also, its the Frozr III thats on mine, it is really quiet. Like I said, my processor cooler is really loud under load. I think if you have adequate cooling though (additional fans, I have an input and output to remove heat and help with circulation of air) and my card doesnt get that hot so the VGA fans dont have to go up that high.

Good thing with the Frozr cards though is they keep things really cool, helps no end with overclocking.

[kalniel]

Yeah the 570 version looks good (though the reference vapour chamber cooler for that is also excellent). Just need the price to come down for me personally, then they'd represent a decent performance/price comparison to the AMD cards and I'd consider getting one.

[Mc808]

Ok thanks for all the advice guys, the Asus and Msi cards are around the same price point so I'll have to fish around for reviews and see which one is best.

[TheMadness]

Yeah I was looking at the Scan prices. So the Asus 560Ti then further OC'ing it would be a better option, on the Scan store there are 2 Asus 560Ti one of which is slightly over the Gigabyte one, do you mean this one?

I mean the cheaper one as you can save money in exchange for a short amount of time setting clocks and stress testing, but if you want to pay extra the frozr II is the way to go

[Mc808]

I mean the cheaper one as you can save money in exchange for a short amount of time setting clocks and stress testing, but if you want to pay extra the frozr II is the way to go

Looking like the Frozr II is the one.

[TheMadness]

MSI's coolers are very nice, I have a cyclone cooler on my 460
the stock fan curve was a little bit too aggressive (70% at only 60C, still not terribly loud though) but you can set a custom one in Afterburner if the frozr's is similar

[Mc808]

MSI's coolers are very nice, I have a cyclone cooler on my 460
the stock fan curve was a little bit too aggressive (70% at only 60C, still not terribly loud though) but you can set a custom one in Afterburner if the frozr's is similar

Under full load is the noise level reasonable?

[Ferral]

On the Frozr III you can start hearing the fan at around 70% speed, under full load mine has yet to get above 55% speed and 65 degrees.

Theres a review for the MSI 560 ti frozr 2 here on HEXUS :

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=29469

[BlackDwarf]

I recently got the MSI GTX 560Ti Hawk:
http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N560GTX-Ti-Hawk.html

Has the Frozr III cooler on it. Just a wonderful card. Literally amazing. Coming from 9800GTX+, being able to crank quite as much as I am is just mindblowing.

[TheMadness]

Under full load is the noise level reasonable?

on my cyclone it's audible but it's far from unbearable, I can't speak directly for the frozr II though I imagine with two fans and a far more beefy heatsink you shouldn't have any problems

[kalniel]

Under full load is the noise level reasonable?

Full load - yes, though in our case (nice airy case) it doesn't get to anything like a high fan speed under full load, but even at lowish fan speeds there is a fairly large resonance in the frozr II (but it's not annoying, just a very low hum).