as per my usual thing i'll be taking a couple minutes to show you guys the
overall physical characteristics of the gtx 560 ti or tie compared to some other
video cards so right here i've actually got two gtx 560 ti's one is an MSI
cyclone 2 edition card and the other one
is a reference design from NVIDIA so first i
want to compare these two for you guys they both have the same power connectors
they both have the same dvi 8 mini HDMI mix they both use pci express 16 they
both have an sli connector but there's a couple of things that are different
first of all the MSI card has a cooler that protrudes over the top of the card
itself over the top of the pcb so if you have a side fan on your case you want to
make sure you're going to have enough clearance between a standard card and
where this blade heatsink extends to in order for the card to be installed
without any clearance issues so that's one thing to be aware of also the MSI
card has a little stiffening plate on the pcb that should prevent any warping
um when you're moving the case or if it's being shipped to you or whatever
the case may be so that's pretty nice little feature as well i'm gonna go
ahead and flip both of these cards over uh the reference card is a fairly
different cooler it has just a single sort of flower style heatsink underneath
no heat pipes no fins nothing like that compared to the MSI cooler so it
shouldn't run quite as cool or as quietly as the aftermarket cooled card
now if you look at the back you can see that the cards are actually identical in
terms of overall layout so we've got six memory modules on the
back we've got our standard yeah yeah sli
connectors are all in the same place display connectors all in the same place
pci connectors are all in the same place and every little trace on the back of
these pcbs is the same so MSI has only really modified the cooler and
potentially some of the components on the board although it would be pretty
difficult to verify something like that without taking off the coolers
let's see yeah that'd be pretty tricky to have a look at without taking off
these coolers but they have definitely altered the
cooler but not the layout of the pcb so there you go okay so let's put the MSI
one aside and i'm gonna compare the 550 ti in terms of physical
characteristics to the 560 ti
as well as the GeForce gtx 570 not ti
so here i'm just going to grab my uh grab my tape measure here just want to
show you guys so if you have enough clearance in your case like if you got a
Corsair obsidian 800d or something you know some ludicrous accepts anything
case like that then you don't have to worry about this part of the video but i
just want to tell you guys that the pcb on the 550 ti
is about it's just a little over okay so let's let's do centimeters everyone
always complains that i don't use centimeters in my video so it is 21
centimeters long and that compares against the 560 ti which is a more
advanced GPU has a more advanced cooler etc etc etc uh it's also more expensive
which comes in at 23 centimeters and finally
to the 570 which is 20 just under
centimeters long so it's quite a small card but you expect that from this sort
of class of GPU but since NVIDIA says
that it is designed for performance at 1680 by 1050 or lower that's pretty much
what we would want because you're not going to be throwing that in your 800d with your you
know maximum overclocked six core Intel processor etc etc this is more for like
a value gamer build and you want to make sure that it's going to be able to fit
in a case that's appropriate for a value gaming build thank you for checking out
my length and physical characteristics comparison of the gtx 550 ti reference
from NVIDIA as well as the MSI cyclone 2
gtx 550 ti