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Title: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: RotBaron on January 09, 2013, 11:23:03 PM

Wondering if anyone could make a critical comparison between these two and offer any input.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100006519%2050001315%2040000048&IsNodeId=1&page=2&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&CompareItemList=48|14-121-446^14-121-446-TS%2C14-121-425^14-121-425-TS

TIA,
 
 :salute

Rot

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: The Fugitive on January 10, 2013, 08:01:23 AM

While no pro, I'd go with the more expensive one, the "TI", because one, the other one is out of stock  :neener: and the TI has faster clock speeds. You can have all the memory in the world, but if you can't load it fast enough whats the point? Personally, I think faster is better.

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: JTs on January 10, 2013, 10:32:11 AM

Quote from: The Fugitive on January 10, 2013, 08:01:23 AM

Personally, I think faster is better.

depends what your doing

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: RotBaron on January 10, 2013, 08:25:23 PM

The TI is in stock other places  :)

It looks like $60 some odd for 50MHz more speed, that's all I see anyhow.  Is that really worth it to anybody?

With all the problems I've been having, I own the GTX560 DCUII at the moment, but I'm taking it back, and was wondering if the other one I listed was that much better.

I'm starting to think I may need to be asking what is the next level up from the 560? Also I'm warranty centered, so if you could recommend that next batch of cards that are a step/level up from here that'd be great.

Thanks much,

 :salute

Rot

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: RotBaron on January 10, 2013, 08:37:51 PM

Rrrr link isn't working anymore.

The two models that were in the link were:

1) ASUS GTX 560 DCUII

and

2) ASUS GTX 560TI DCII


At this point though, and after continued inability to keep up with AH2 and the settings I want, I'm now wondering if the next step/level of cards is in my budget and will help with framerate drop.

 :salute

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: RotBaron on January 10, 2013, 11:33:16 PM

Another option:

EVGA 02G-P4-2663-KR GeForce GTX 660 FTW Signature 2 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130833

How much improvement would I potentially see from this one above the previously listed gtx560dcuII?


Thanks,

 :salute

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: BaldEagl on January 10, 2013, 11:56:00 PM

The 660 is just a generation newer 560 so you likely wouldn't see great improvement.  Going to a 670 or 680 would be a different story.

The FTW, Signature, etc. are just OC'd versions of the stock cards.  You can do that yourself but the factory OC's might have a warranty which you'd lose OCing a stock card yourself.  The factory will typically use the best chips from a run to produce the higher end OC's.

Nvidia has a nice program called NTune that will automatically OC your card for you to a safe limit within it's tolerance.  It takes about 10 seconds.

Title: Re: ASUS 560's comparison
Post by: Noir on January 11, 2013, 01:09:07 AM

you don't like the cooling on the directCU?