Evga 560 ti Stock Vs OC

[cadefoster]

Hi,
I am looking at buying a 560 ti as a replacement for my current gts 450. After doing alot of research, I think I am going to go with one of the eVGA models. My question is, how much of a performance difference is there between the stock speeds vs the overclocked versions of the card.? Thanks.

 

[nforce4max]

A reference card is the safest bet and you can easily overclock on your own. 920mhz core on the low side while 950-1ghz on the high. Performance is a match for a stock gtx 570 at those speeds but power consumption will be more or less the same.

Be sure it is one with the mid plate.

 

[jyjjy]

Yeah, there's no point in paying someone to overclock your video card for you. It's easy to do on your own and you will almost definitely get better results.

 

[cadefoster]

Thanks for the responses. Sorry to have to ask, but what exactly is a mid plate? Also, when it comes to overclocking, I have used msi afterburner is the past, can afterburner be used with cards other than msi? Thanks again.

 

[jyjjy]

A midplate is a metal plate that helps disperse heat.
Afterburner can be used on non-MSI cards, you just need to change a setting in the config file.

 

[nforce4max]

A midplate is a metal plate that helps disperse heat.
Afterburner can be used on non-MSI cards, you just need to change a setting in the config file.

I didn't have to even do that and that was with a gigabyte gtx 460 and a diamond 3870. No modded files. Version installer 210 something like that.

 

[jyjjy]

Maybe they've changed it since I installed.

 

[Mousemonkey]

A midplate is a metal plate that helps disperse heat.
Afterburner can be used on non-MSI cards, you just need to change a setting in the config file.

I'm pretty sure that you've always been able to use it on non MSI cards as I tested it out on my XFX cards when it first came out but I couldn't get the monitor to show CPU temps so I went back to Rivatuner.

 

[chesteracorgi]

I am using MSI Afterburner with a PNY reference GTX 470 (modded out with the Zalman 3000VF cooler) and it works like a charm. No issues to date (over a month of OCing).