GIGABYTE Super Overclock Series GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) GV-N560SO-1GI-950 Video Card

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Free of charge HDMI CableGood Seeking cardWill handle anything I want so farQuite quiet !!!Fantastic temps I'm idling 30 degrees !!Overall I am glad I chose this over 570 I would rather have the mini - complete HDMI Adapter.Clocks not really stable as advertised(hopefully I didn't get a bad chip and can fix this)No sli bridgeAppears sort of flimsyDriver failures occasionally immediately after gaming(everything runs fine if i place in a single of my 5870s)Didn't take away a star because its nonetheless rapidly with lowered clocks paired with the 2600k this factor is awsome!

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15% overclock across the board. Got 2 of these to connect with SLI. Each cards have been rock stable at factory set frequencies and voltage.Compared these overclocked 560s to factory overclocked 580s in Unigine Heaven 2.5 DX11 benchmark at 1680x1050 resolution.2x560 SOC achieved 90.three% scaling with SLI.2x580 factory overclocked achieved 87% scaling with SLI.2x560 SOC SLI was 70.8% more quickly than a single overclocked 580 (Same expense!!!).Single 560 SOC was ten.1% slower than an overclocked 580.2x560 SOC SLI was 9.5% slower than 2x580 overclocked SLI.At high resolutions such as 2560x1600 I would count on 580s to pull additional ahead due to bigger RAM, even so at mid-range resolutions Gigabyte 560 Ti SOC is appropriate on overclocked 580's heels.Temperatures maxed out at 75C for 1st card, 66C for second card, which implies that gigabyte's heatpipe cooler is fairly excellent. Would not overclock to 1GHz with out voltage increase. Enabling SLI was a pain on my buggy motherboard, Asus p8p67 pro B3. Asus messed up SLI assistance in BIOS, and when both cards had been initially plugged in, SLI was unavailable and nvidia's driver kept crashing with black and blue screens. Only repair that worked was installing windows 7 on another hard drive, installing chipset drivers and then nvidia drivers. This somehow enabled SLI for the entire machine so I could go back to the original windows 7 install and allow SLI.

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1. Good look2. OCGuru is a excellent applicationthree. Games run wonderful... when/if you don't have difficulties 1. Massive (may want to move challenging drive to fit into typical atx cases).two. High number of defective units as other individuals have mentioned/warned. (see below) I really should have taken the warnings a lot more seriously... There actually are a high number of defective units of these 560 cards. In my case the card shows errors in testing but will overheat each and every time. Benchmarks from every single web-site shows this card won't pass 60 degrees but mine hits 80 degrees immediately after just minutes of testing.

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Runs cool: Idles at about 30 C, seldom gets above the mid 50s when gaming.Sexy Seeking: It has an exceptional looking style, and its not almost as bulky as its 5950 counterpart.Beastly Factory Overclock: Clocked ﶶ mhz, this is effortlessly the best value you're going to get for a card in this cost range.A couple of reviewers are complaining about crashes, artifacts, etc., but I've had no such complications. Plugged this card in, updated the drivers, and it's run flawlessly ever since.This easily runs just about every modern day game maxed out (excluding maybe metro). I'm operating RIFT on max settings and hardly ever dropping below 60 fps when I'm not in crowded places. Louder than my old 5770, but that's to be expected.Can't make me a sandwich. My program:AMD 975 @ 3.6 ghz8 GB G.SKILL RAM 1600Asus M4A88T-V EVO500 GB Samsung HDD

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Decent cooling. Numerous double slot cards have poor air flow, these appear to do far better than most. Very quick, the Overclocking utility is easy to use. Not NVIDIA reference style.

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Update: Card delivered. Looks sexy. Runs every thing i throw at it just fine. Not as power hungry as i believed it would have been.so far so superior.. Card is slightly longer than my 8800 GTS, not definitely a con. There is now no room in between the challenging power connectors and the video card. its literally a ideal squeeze fit. I could have moved my HDs around but i decided not to. just for kicks, ran 3Dmark11.. my score came in Š behind the very same configured PC/GPU combo. the only difference was whoever was ş had Water Cooling, I am on AIR. Unfortunatly, making use of the beta drivers from Nvidia, I could not submit my outcomes. Kept acquiring error detecting my card. my score was 3785. Core2Due Q6600 @ 3.24 Ghz / 8 GSkill / IP35Pro / 560TI-SOC

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it looked cool i was running a 4870 for the past 3ish years no troubles just old so i got the 560tiI although hey its SOC out of the box, Nvidia is good appropriate? nothing but difficultiesEver 5-10min my display driver stops responding screen goes blankdownloaded the 266.66 drivers from Nvidia internet sitethen the 267 drivers (after uninstalling 266)then down clocked to 930묰묜뫪 with matching shader and lower memnonetheless nothing but troubles reading on other forums i see there are alot of problems i would have hoped to at least be able to run at stock speeds but no its a pice of _____

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Runs solitaire and minesweeper on ultra high settings 16x AAeach and every program (including crysis) sets max settings as my suggested default nowstays cool, looks cool, plays cool heh... wish I had bought a better processor (currently phenom x2 555)Seems to be uncompatible with unlocked b55makes me want to upgrade cpu, hdd --> ssd, bigger monitor, three screens, 3D setup Obtain this card you will not regret it, appropriate out of the box it will deliver the efficiency of your very best 560 ti overclocks. Also think about that if they set this at 950mhz core for factory settings then it ought to be a genuinely stable gpu

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This card is Really fast. I was operating dual 5770s and it was struggling on BFBC2 (hitting frames in the upper 30s at times. Once I put in this card I get a solid 60 fps, if I disable VSYNC I get nicely over 100 fps in specific locations. I'm very happy. I also ran Unigine benchmarking and my avg fps went up 11 fps, and max fps went up over 30 fps. Unbelievable. I had some minor glitching early on in playing BFBC2 which produced me nervous. I am not positive if this was driver related, but it's been running solid ever given that. I'm very happy to be down to a single card remedy, crossfire was absolutely nothing but a pain. Here are my method specs for comparison to your own (this may help if you're worried about a cpu bottleneck):Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 (OC'ed to 3.8 ghz w/Corsair A50 CPU coolerƞ GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 (OC'ed to 950 mhz)Gigabyte EP45-UD3P mobo

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THIS CARD JUST Merely BEATS ALL OTHER 560 TI CARDSDON'T WASTE YOUR Cash ON ANY OTHER CARD Acquire THE THE SUPER OVERCLOCKED VERSION GIGABYTE Presents NO 1 ELSE COMPETES WITH THEM!!!! NONE But EXCEPT THE Cost I WISH IT WAS ONLY 200 BUCKS!!!! CORE 1 7 930 6 GIGS G SKILL RAM Crucial SSD 128 GIGASUS SABER TOOTH 1366 BOARDTHIS Thing Simply IS FASTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Great product. The 560 Ti has a large improvement over the standard 560 version. Worth the extra bux for getting the over clocked model. Fairly quite too compared to a 7950 GX2 which was my last video card. Have not over clocked it software wise because their is no point as of yet.

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Picked a 560TI since it was the very best performance in the price range when I made the buy. Very happy with the card and it's performance. Does wonderfully on every thing I throw at it. Plays Dragon Age II with DX11 at full settings quite effectively (haven't attempted it with the "high good quality texture" pack yet though). Runs a little warm, but better than most. I was worried I would get a DOA given all the past reviews where peoples cards would fail on them. Very glad I took the chance and went with this card instead of settling for some thing a bit much less effective. The Super Overclock version has the highest benchmarks of any 560 TI card from the factory.

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Being overclocked to 950Mhz makes this card screaming fast. It competes with the GTX 570 at these speeds. I have not tried pushing the card past 950Mhz yet as I don't have a need to yet. This thing plays BFBC2 with a Core i7 950 g 4.1Ghz on multiplayer with frames averaging the 60-70 range maxed out at 8x/8x.

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Unload ur installed video drivers, Nvidia just brought out a new driver, get that. Then it's just plug and play.Never had one issue, never locks up driver wise. Hope to get another one if there's a price drop  in the future.Thnx

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I purchased this card simply because there were none of the 1 GHZ editions in stock. This quickly proved to be irrelevant when I overclocked the card to 1 GHZ with ease. So far, the card has remained stable and temperatures remain at a very acceptable level. For the price, this card's performance is wonderful. I have been able to play Crysis 2 maxed out at a steady 50-60 fps coupled with my Core i5 760. Gigabyte has also done a good job with the overall aesthetics of the card. The "windforce" fan/heatsink combo is quite attractive to look at and appears to cool the card nicely. Currently, it seems that the Geforce 560 Ti offers excellent performance for the price. In addition, it should be noted that these cards offer a substantial factory overclock right out the box for only a few dollars more than a stock 560.