ASUS 560's comparison

[RotBaron]

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,
 
 

Rot

[The Fugitive]

While no pro, I'd go with the more expensive one, the "TI", because one, the other one is out of stock  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.

[JTs]

Personally, I think faster is better.

depends what your doing

[RotBaron]

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,

 

Rot

[RotBaron]

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.

 

[RotBaron]

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,

 

[BaldEagl]

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.

[Noir]

you don't like the cooling on the directCU?