MSI 560GTX-Ti, Twin Frozr II or not?

nochancemrp

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Newegg has MSI 560GTX-Ti as a Shell Shocker for $189.99 after rebate. Only difference I can see is that it doesn't have Twin Frozr II. The main games I play are SWTOR, LoL, SC2, eventually D3, and older games. I don't OC either.

Or for $209 (after rebate) I can get the one with Twin Frozr II.
 

dharmenparikh

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twin frozer will make no difference. This is a gtx 560ti...they barely get hot and as is this card has 2 fans. The twin frozer is really for the higher end cards.

Btw this one is priced regularly $190...not a shellshocker.
 


If ya gonna go there, consider another $21 and get the Asus. Both are great cards the Frozr just factory clocked 20Mhz lower and the Asus seems to get higher OC's than the MSI in the reviews I have read......I use Guru3D's version of Afterburner (Beta 9) to OC them .... most of the time i can hit 1000Mhz w/o a voltage tweak.

One other thing.....there have been 1 or 2 reports here on the forum of the Frozr not being able to be seated all the way in the slot on some MoBo's. Seems a heatsink to the right of the slot can hit the heat sink preventing card from being pushed in all the way.....IIRC it was a gigabyte board w/ the problem.

In Son No. 3's box, he gets <80 C on the top card in SLI after turning down the OC to 980. before we were at 1020 and were seeing 84ish .... highest I have seen the Asus go was 1070

http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1201&page=17
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121425

I don't think there's a wrong choice between the two, if I wasn't having such consistent good luck with the Asus TOP model, I'd be using the Frozr's....that $209 price tho is very tempting.