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MSI GTX550 Ti Cyclone OC Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Monday, April 11, 2011
Introduction
At this point in time I hope everyone who has been looking at the GeForce GTX 550 Ti would have already seen the reference and even some of the overclocked versions by now. If not, please check out some of the cards we have already reviewed.
In this review we are going to try something a little different and look at one of the more unique GTX 550 Ti cards on the market the MSI GTX550-Ti Cyclone II. The one thing that makes this card different is the extreme nature of GPU cooler which can improve both overclocking and longevity of the card. So without summing everything up in the intro let's just say we are going to focus on the awesome cooling of this card and look at the benefits of overclocking between the factory overclocks of this card and more relaxed performance of the reference GTX 550 Ti.
In this review we are going to try something a little different and look at one of the more unique GTX 550 Ti cards on the market the MSI GTX550-Ti Cyclone II. The one thing that makes this card different is the extreme nature of GPU cooler which can improve both overclocking and longevity of the card. So without summing everything up in the intro let's just say we are going to focus on the awesome cooling of this card and look at the benefits of overclocking between the factory overclocks of this card and more relaxed performance of the reference GTX 550 Ti.
Specifications
Fabrication Process: 40nm
Core Clock: 952MHz
Shader Clock: 1903MHz
Stream Processors: 192 units
ROP Units: 24
Texture Filtering Units: 32
Memory Interface: 192-bit
Memory Amount/Type: 1GB/GDDR5 Memory
Memory Clock: 1089MHz (4356MHz effective)
Memory Bandwidth:104.5 GB/s
DirectX Compliance: 11
Connection: 16x PCI Express 2.0
Form Factor: Dual Slot
Multi-GPU Support: SLI
Model: N550GTX-Ti Cyclone OC
Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
Core Clock: 952MHz
Shader Clock: 1903MHz
Stream Processors: 192 units
ROP Units: 24
Texture Filtering Units: 32
Memory Interface: 192-bit
Memory Amount/Type: 1GB/GDDR5 Memory
Memory Clock: 1089MHz (4356MHz effective)
Memory Bandwidth:104.5 GB/s
DirectX Compliance: 11
Connection: 16x PCI Express 2.0
Form Factor: Dual Slot
Multi-GPU Support: SLI
Model: N550GTX-Ti Cyclone OC
Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
