so here on the screen I have my 3D Mark 11 results with the GTX 560 Hawk
featuring the twin frozer 3 cooler twin
frozer 3 there's the logo thing so
that's with the Dual 80 mil fans you can see the hawk logo on the PCB down there
zoom zoom zoom there it is all right MSI
Haw okay so uh basically the max
overclock I was able to achieve on this particular card going to use my manual
brightness settings there we are you can actually read that now so I was able to
turn up not only the core voltage but also the memory voltage and auxiliary
voltage because of the non reference Hawk PCB so I was able to get my core
clock up past 1 gz now I was able to run
benchmarks higher than this up to about uh 1.05 GHz but this was what I found to
be 24/7 stable okay without temperatures
going through the roof uh you can't see it here I ran the back Benchmark a while ago but it Peaks at around 70° okay
Shader clock is obviously locked to the core clock as with most of the uh recent
generation NVIDIA cards memory clock you know what doesn't have a huge impact on
performance but this is as high as I was able to get stable like I said very
little impact on performance though it's all about the core clock on this
particular card so now what I'm going to do is I actually never even ran the
Benchmark um at the
reference clock speed so I will go ahead and run it at reference clock speeds
which actually aren't that much lower remember this card is overclocked to 950
MHz out of the box and I will find out how much of a performance Improvement we
got from overclocking the graphics card okay so there's clearly not much
improvement in performance to be had by overclocking the GTX 560 Hawk Edition
card from MSI but there are definitely
some advantages to it so there's the fact that it doesn't cost that much more
than the regular GTX 560 twin frozer 2
there's also the fact that it has a better PCB which includes I mean among
other things okay we've got the V check points which are here we've also got the
um where is it the what is this the oh
yeah we've got the uh different profiles for the fans so you can go to Performance mode or silent mode for the
fans we've got this rigidity plate for
the PCB itself to keep it from flexing when it's installed in your case which
the regular twin frozer 2 does not one of the other improvements they've made
to the PCB design is also the fact that the PCIe plugs come out the top of the
card rather than the back of the card which means that the overall length of
it is a little bit less you can see the twin frozer 2 whoa it fell that's no
good uh overhangs the PCB a little bit whereas here it does not the twin frozer
3 does not do that you get the propeller
style fans rather than the more traditional SW blade fans
and yeah and then you get the factory overclock so since you can't push it
that much over the factory overclock that's pretty much to be expected we're
pretty close to the limits of a GTX 560 GPU you still get that factory overclock
which is significantly more than the 560 TI twin frozer 2 which in spite of the
covered up Hawk that's down there on the PCB cuz it's the same PCB as the GTX 460
Hawk this is a true 560 Hawk not just
with a twin frozer cooler on it so thank you for checking out my little
overclocking Adventure on the GTX 560
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