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MSI have been producing some of the highest quality motherboards and graphics cards over the last year. When we heard that they were releasing a 560GTX with their Twin Frozr II cooler, we had high expectations that this would be one of the finest mid range cards on the market. We were right.
We have had experience with the Twin Frozr II cooler before on the last generation MSI GTX460, it worked wonders then and it is just as impressive with the latest nVidia chip. Temperatures at full load hold around 60c with lightning fast return to ambient transients.
Noise levels are equally as impressive, thanks to the thick quad heatpipe design, the fans never have to work too hard to keep the card running well within specifications. Power consumption is also a positive, with the card only demanding 145 watts when gaming.
When looking at performance results, this card never fails to excite. It can churn through any engine at high resolutions without breaking a sweat, Direct X 11 titles look great and run very smoothly, without any hitching and stuttering. It can often keep up with the HD6950, sometimes even outperforming it, depending on the engine.
KitGuru says: With a two year warranty and an asking price of just under £200, this is surely one of the best purchases you could make for a new system.
damn, thats a nice card. MSI certainly have created one of the nicest looking cards !
Thats what im talking about. under £200 too ! wow, was expecting it to be 230. best buy right now? must be up there with the best.
Have to hand it to MSI, they know their card designs. I dont buy into that ‘military grade’ stuff myself, but the cards get plenty of attention to detail and thats worth a lot of credit when some other manufacturers can be very lazy.
Excellent, glad to see a good 560 here, even among the 40,000 AMd reviews 😉
I have the 460 GTX from MSI, which I read here and on bitech last year, its been the best video card ive owned. I dont really need this card, but the next generation 660 ? ill be getting that from MSI. awesome boards.
560 is an awesome card, thanks for the review Z, awesome as always.
Wish they would do a 2GB version. lets also hope the new generation will support 3 screens without needing two.
Very impressed with this board, 60c under load when gaming? thats better than a 5770 I have in another case !
Great price point to achieve. would be my first choice for a new card.
nvidia tessellation performance gets to me everytime. AMD have still such a long way to go.
proves a point too that when AMD fans say Nvidia suck a lot of power, the new designs have it sorted. 🙂