MSI GTX650Ti Boost Twin Frozr OC GPU Review

The MSI GTX650Ti Boost OC is certainly an impressive graphics card which is almost able to keep up with the higher cost Gainward GTX660 in today's testing. When manually overclocked to the limits, the GTX650Ti Boost OC surpassed the GTX660 in the latest 3DMark test.There is no doubt that the 192 bit memory interface helps improve performance over the standard GTX650Ti, often pushing frame rates from unplayable into perfectlysmooth at 1080p.

The MSI GTX650Ti Boost OC is slightly faster than the XFX HD7850 Core Edition and around 20 percent faster than AMD's recently released HD7790.We haven't analysed Nvidia's reference cooler, however the MSI Twin Frozr is one of the best in its class. The substantial heatsink design with three thick heatpipes and nickel plated base ensure that the fans don't have to spin that fast. In fact they only spin around 1,100rpm when under gaming load. This subsequently reduces noise emissions.

While it will vary from card to card, we found there was some clock headroom and our maximum overclock of 1,100mhz core and 1,736mhz memory ensured the GTX650Ti Boost OC was able to outperform the Gainward GTX660.Pricing of the GTX650Ti Boost OC is quite competitive, it is priced at £149.58 inc vat from SCAN. Cheaper models are available for around £10 less. While it is slightly faster than AMD's HD7850, cut throat pricing means you can pick up a HD7850 for less than £130 today.

Pros:

• excellent performance.
• the Twin Frozr Cooler is class leading.
• runs cool
• quiet.
• when pushed to the limit it is faster than GTX660

Cons:

• HD7850 pricing is very competitive right now.

Kitguru says: This is a fantastic, high value graphics card and one not to be overlooked.

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