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as per my usual thing i'll be taking a couple minutes to show you guys the

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overall physical characteristics of the gtx 560 ti or tie compared to some other

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video cards so right here i've actually got two gtx 560 ti's one is an MSI

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cyclone 2 edition card and the other one

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is a reference design from NVIDIA so first i

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want to compare these two for you guys they both have the same power connectors

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they both have the same dvi 8 mini HDMI mix they both use pci express 16 they

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both have an sli connector but there's a couple of things that are different

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first of all the MSI card has a cooler that protrudes over the top of the card

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itself over the top of the pcb so if you have a side fan on your case you want to

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make sure you're going to have enough clearance between a standard card and

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where this blade heatsink extends to in order for the card to be installed

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without any clearance issues so that's one thing to be aware of also the MSI

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card has a little stiffening plate on the pcb that should prevent any warping

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um when you're moving the case or if it's being shipped to you or whatever

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the case may be so that's pretty nice little feature as well i'm gonna go

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ahead and flip both of these cards over uh the reference card is a fairly

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different cooler it has just a single sort of flower style heatsink underneath

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no heat pipes no fins nothing like that compared to the MSI cooler so it

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shouldn't run quite as cool or as quietly as the aftermarket cooled card

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now if you look at the back you can see that the cards are actually identical in

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terms of overall layout so we've got six memory modules on the

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back we've got our standard yeah yeah sli

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connectors are all in the same place display connectors all in the same place

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pci connectors are all in the same place and every little trace on the back of

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these pcbs is the same so MSI has only really modified the cooler and

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potentially some of the components on the board although it would be pretty

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difficult to verify something like that without taking off the coolers

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let's see yeah that'd be pretty tricky to have a look at without taking off

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these coolers but they have definitely altered the

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cooler but not the layout of the pcb so there you go okay so let's put the MSI

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one aside and i'm gonna compare the 550 ti in terms of physical

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characteristics to the 560 ti

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as well as the GeForce gtx 570 not ti

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so here i'm just going to grab my uh grab my tape measure here just want to

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show you guys so if you have enough clearance in your case like if you got a

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Corsair obsidian 800d or something you know some ludicrous accepts anything

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case like that then you don't have to worry about this part of the video but i

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just want to tell you guys that the pcb on the 550 ti

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is about it's just a little over okay so let's let's do centimeters everyone

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always complains that i don't use centimeters in my video so it is 21

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centimeters long and that compares against the 560 ti which is a more

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advanced GPU has a more advanced cooler etc etc etc uh it's also more expensive

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which comes in at 23 centimeters and finally

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to the 570 which is 20 just under

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centimeters long so it's quite a small card but you expect that from this sort

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of class of GPU but since NVIDIA says

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that it is designed for performance at 1680 by 1050 or lower that's pretty much

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what we would want because you're not going to be throwing that in your 800d with your you

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know maximum overclocked six core Intel processor etc etc this is more for like

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a value gamer build and you want to make sure that it's going to be able to fit

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in a case that's appropriate for a value gaming build thank you for checking out

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my length and physical characteristics comparison of the gtx 550 ti reference

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from NVIDIA as well as the MSI cyclone 2

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gtx 550 ti