MSI N560GTF-448 TwinFrozr III Power Edition Review

NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 core — which faster than its predecessor as it has more shader processors, as it’s a castrated GTX 570 really.

The GeForce GTX 560 448 will certainly be a nice speed bump compared to the regular GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Being based off that GeForce GTX 570 means it also comes with a wider memory bus at 320-bit and yeah, more memory as 1280 MB GDDR5 will be placed on these products.

The new MSI N560GTF-448 TwinFrozr III Power Edition comes with a triple over-voltage function which supports voltage adjustment of GPU, memory & VDDCI. And the power indication hints towards a P/S Switch Function where two fan speed profiles (Performance / Silence) can be configured.

The product will get that new GPU seated into a custom PCB and will be cooled by that lovely TwinFrozr III cooler. Armed with a 210Watt TDP.

This card will eat up two PCI slots. Sitting on top of the GPU is the heatpipe based TwinFrozr III cooler which on top of that has two fans blowing air towards that heatpipe based cooler with multiple thick pipes.

Alongside the quality component selection, the custom PCB, the cooling and the PWM FAN switch, the card will also get full voltage support with AfterBurner, meaning that the GPU, memory and VDDCI may be voltage tweaked.

It comes with an extra 256MB of memory, a faster memory bus (320-bit) and uses that GTX 570/580 silicon with a couple of shader clusters disabled.

Gaming wise the 448 core might just be what the doctor ordered for the latest game titles though, it has a chunk of extra memory which Battlefield 3 really likes in MMOG environments, it has that little extra bite that Crysis 2 likes so much and as such it can be looked at as a really nice 1920×1080/1200 resolution graphics card.

MSI has done a terrific job with this card, it is very quiet, runs very cool temperatures and offers you a lot for the money as they throw in that TwinFrozr III cooler, which works out really nicely.

The MSI GTX 560 Ti Power Edition managed to keep up with and beat a GTX 570 in most of the testing while costing far less and still managing to have top notch temperatures, performance, power consumption at idle, and overclocking capability!

Overall, the GTX 560 Ti 448 cores is a great deal for its $289~$300 price range, but limited availability could be its downfall.

Good VS Bad

Good

• Low temperatures
• Good overclocking potential
• Overclocked out of the box
• Triple software voltage control via MSI Afterburner
• Dual BIOS
• Native HDMI output
• 4-way SLI support
• Support for CUDA, PhysX and DirectX 11

Bad

• Noisy fan in 3D (silent BIOS is quieter but not by much)
• Overclock out of the box could be bigger
• Power consumption a good deal higher than GF114 based GTX 560 Ti
• Only two active display outputs at the same time

Review of MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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