Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti OC Windforce Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell September 11, 2012 Featured Tech News, Graphics

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Skyrim‘s main story revolves around the player character’s efforts to defeat Alduin, a Dragon god who is prophesized to destroy the world. Set two hundred years after Oblivion, the game takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim, upon the continent of Tamriel, and the planet of Nirn. The open world gameplay of the Elder Scrolls series returns in Skyrim; the player can explore the land at will and ignore or postpone the main quest indefinitely. Skyrim has received universal acclaim from critics, selling more than 3.5 million copies within the first 48 hours of release.

This engine tends to run better on AMD hardware, but the results are still extremely positive, averaging 60 frames per second at these demanding settings. Perfectly playable throughout on the native resolution of our 30 inch monitor.

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KitGuru Games: DLSS 5 misses the point

It would be hard to argue that NVIDIA’s DLSS technologies haven’t been a net positive to the PC space, with the machine-learning based upscaler successfully translating lower resolution inputs into a final image which is perceivably sharper while hogging fewer resources. Though somewhat more contentious, the next evolution of DLSS came in the form of Frame Generation, using ML in order to generate additional frames for high-refresh rate gaming. Both techniques can have their issues, but generally speaking they’ve allowed for more people to experience higher-end titles at increased frame rates. DLSS 5, however, takes a sharp pivot, with a very different end goal in mind than the performance-boosting versions that came before.

7 comments

Joseph
September 11, 2012 at 10:56 am

delicious. well worth the money. AMD must be worrying at this price…..
Eran
September 11, 2012 at 10:57 am

Im waiting for 660, it should be under £200 and hopefully much better value, like the 460/560.
Darth Digglers
September 11, 2012 at 11:03 am

Thats a really good price. they were close to £300 when I saw the overclocked models, last time. wonder if they will drop to £230 before christmas.
Harris
September 11, 2012 at 11:05 am

I hear these cards aren’t selling well. I think the price is still too high for gamers in general.
Vincent
September 23, 2012 at 11:32 am

I own this card and I have OCed it a little higher than the displayed “Maximum” OC’s. I’ve managed to get a very stable 130MHz core and 140MHz memory boost from the stock clocks. (Using MSI Afterburner)
Zardon
September 23, 2012 at 11:38 am

Hi Vincent, nice one. You got a good card 🙂