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Asus GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II review
You know how it goes: Nvidia releases a new GPU, everybody signs up to re-badge the reference design and throws it out at launch. Li'l while later, and for a bit of a premium, you'll find new spins of the card that have new coolers, higher clocks and sometimes a bit of extra graphics memory for giggles. But you are nearly always paying that premium. I say nearly because the Asus GeForce GTX 560 Ti Direct CU II, as well as being a bit of a mouthful, is also bizarrely cheaper than a lot of the competition. Unfortunately when the board is pushed to the 950MHz mark that the Zotac GTX 560 Ti AMP! sits at, it starts to become as flaky as Alicia Silverstone. It's nothing to do with the cooling, but I think this GPU, essentially a slightly re-worked GeForce GTX 460 processor, has gone as far as it can go. We were unable to get at the voltage controls to pump a bit more juice into the chip to steady the ship. Asus' bundled SmartDoctor OC utility is far from our favourite, but with an Asus card it ought to offer access to the voltage. We couldn't even get it to recognise that our board had in fact come from Asus though, even if GPU-Z hapily proved it really was.
ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP
On January 25th, Nvidia announced the release of the GTX 560 Ti. Oriented to fill the lowest high-end slot previously occupied by GTX 460, it is a card that demonstrated excellent performance, but still retained low power consumption. These factors make GTX 560 Ti an excellent contender for overclocking. Distributors, like ASUS, understood the overclocking potential of GTX 560 Ti and have already released several of their own overclocked cards to the market. While the standard GPU clock is set to 822 Mhz, some of the cards released on the market are factory overclocked to up to 1 Ghz. The ASUS ENGTX 560 Ti Direct CU II TOP has been factory overclocked to 900 Mhz in order to provide excellent performance for gaming enthusiasts looking for a satisfying Direct X 11 experience. Like any GTX 560 Ti, this card is equiped with the GF114 chip for extra performance and extra PolyMorph and raster engines for a faster rate of tessellation. With the 822 MHz model priced at $250, and and the 900 MHz priced at $270, the factory overclocked version is a serious competition to other GTX 560 Ti cards on the market.
NVIDIA, ASUS GTX 560 Ti Review
When introduced last year in July, the GTX 460 was NVIDIA's card that hit the right performance points for the right price and really shook up the mid-range segment by running the latest DX 11 games at frame rates that approached (if not surpassed) the performance of AMD's flagship single-GPU cards, the HD 5870 and HD 5850. This for a much more appealing price point, offering the gamer on a budget the ability to step up to the plate and get big league performance for minor league pricing. The GTX 460 fell into what NVIDIA calls the "Hunter" class of video cards that don't have all the firepower, but use their speed to help close the performance gap. When the GTX 460 dropped, the board partners quickly had a multitude of hopped up cards with better cooling and non-reference PCB designs that took the performance to another level. You had ECS with a massive cooler from Arctic Cooling, Palit with its Sonic version, MSI with the Hawk that featured an overbuilt beast of a board with additional voltage regulation capabilities for the enthusiast, to EVGA with its FTW edition card with an 850MHz core clock right out of the box.
Asus ENGTX560 Ti DCII Videocard Review
The Asus ENGTX 560 Ti DirectCU II is that once-rare bird: a factory-overclocked card at the beginning of a GPU's life cycle. Once upon a time, you wouldn’t ever see an overclocked graphics card. Then they started to appear—usually when a particular generation of GPUs neared the end of its run. Today’s hyper-competition between AMD and Nvidia now dictates that overclocked cards come out of the woodwork as soon as a product launches. If it’s an epidemic, it’s one we like, because manually overclocking graphics cards is a headache and generally more perilous than CPU overclocking. With its iteration of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti, Asus decided to revamp its DirectCU cooler. Like previous iterations, this second generation DirectCU II runs the heat pipes in direct contact with the GPU, rather than relying on a dissipation plate to transfer heat to the pipes. Asus suggests this is a more efficient way to move heat away from the chip’s hotspots. As with most modern premium graphics cards, Asus uses high quality components throughout, which increase the longevity of the card while minimizing electronic noise that can interfere with image quality.
NVIDIA, ASUS GTX 560 Ti Review
When introduced last year in July, the GTX 460 was NVIDIA's card that hit the right performance points for the right price and really shook up the mid-range segment by running the latest DX 11 games at frame rates that approached (if not surpassed) the performance of AMD's flagship single-GPU cards, the HD 5870 and HD 5850. This for a much more appealing price point, offering the gamer on a budget the ability to step up to the plate and get big league performance for minor league pricing. The GTX 460 fell into what NVIDIA calls the "Hunter" class of video cards that don't have all the firepower, but use their speed to help close the performance gap. When the GTX 460 dropped, the board partners quickly had a multitude of hopped up cards with better cooling and non-reference PCB designs that took the performance to another level. You had ECS with a massive cooler from Arctic Cooling, Palit with its Sonic version, MSI with the Hawk that featured an overbuilt beast of a board with additional voltage regulation capabilities for the enthusiast, to EVGA with its FTW edition card with an 850MHz core clock right out of the box.
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ASUS GeForce GTX 560 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card, ENGTX560 DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 | $243.6 | See it |
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ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 Ti | $350 | See it |
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ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 Ti | $350 | See it |
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Asus ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP : (9.2/10)
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