Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti Cards, Compared
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We gave the GeForce GTX 560 Ti a thorough evaluation at launch. But Nvidia was perhaps most excited about some of its partners were doing with GF114. And so, we set out to find customized boards. Our search lead to five factory-overclocked alternatives.
Palit VTune
Palit VTune allows the GTX560Ti Sonic’s GPU to be adjusted from 50 to 1170 MHz, and its DRAM from 270 to 5040 MT/s data rate.
As with its clock controls, Palit’s VTune fan controls put a different face on the features already available in Nvidia System Tools.
Remaining VTune features replicate a few of the key settings of Nvidia's Control Panel.
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Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
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Please add in the results idle noise level. For me, noise is one of the most important thing when considering a graphics card. I bought a Galaxy GTX 460 last year with the funny cooler and it sounded like a jet engine even when idle. I ended up replacing it with a Thermalright Shaman cooler, the 140mm fan is much more pleasant to the ears.Reply
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Annisman Thanks for the review, any news on any *new* 2GB models of the GTX 560 ? The only one currently available is the Palit version, which shares the same design as the Palit sonic edition card that was reviewed. Would love to see a Gigabyte SOC 2GB card...Reply -
ScoobyJooby-Jew These are some pretty sweet cards. Could you put up the numbers for a reference spec GTX 470. That would be interesting to see how they compare performance wise. The OC'ed cards have pretty similar bandwith to the 470. The big powerful 320 bit card vs the smaller more efficient 256 bit card.Reply -
ScoobyJooby-Jew There should have been a please in the previous post, and a question mark. -1 for bad grammar. -1 for bad manners.Reply -
mattmock I am not sure that even dual GTX 580s qualify as a status symbol. They sit in your computer and no one ever sees them.Reply -
nebun MattMockI am not sure that even dual GTX 580s qualify as a status symbol. They sit in your computer and no one ever sees them.you don't need to see it...you only need to feel it...wait, it's still in the case...lolReply -
gti88 Well, one still need to overclock to play Crysis. But who cares, when Crysis 2 is in the wild?Reply -
iam2thecrowe Why dont your roundups ever contain reference to other cards???? Please, reference to other cards. If the most overclocked card costs nearly as much as a gtx570, you need to show the speed difference of similarly priced cardsReply -
utengineer iam2thecroweWhy dont your roundups ever contain reference to other cards???? Please, reference to other cards. If the most overclocked card costs nearly as much as a gtx570, you need to show the speed difference of similarly priced cardsThis was not the intent of the article. This article was intended to see which 560Ti was the best bang for your buck. I am sure there will be future articles that compare different cards and their price points.Reply
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hardcore_gamer gti88Well, one still need to overclock to play Crysis. But who cares, when Crysis 2 is in the wild?Even a 8800GT can play Crysis 2.We have to change our spam to " can it play Crysis 1 ? "Reply