MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti Cyclone II Overclocking Test Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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well now I've got the GTX 560 TI tuned
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into its overclock this is the Cyclone 2 model I am not using the reference
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cooler for my overclocking testing and I am not quite able to break a 15,000 3D
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Mark score in Vantage by like 63 points
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which is really a shame but uh there you
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have it the final clocks that I ended up with are
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1.07 8
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gigz which if I could get it to focus you would be able to see come on darken
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a little bit or brighten a little bit whatever okay there look at that and
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then look at that quick can you see it whatever okay and then on the memory I
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was able to get around 2.2 GHz not uh not too too much of an overclock on the
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memory itself so thank you for checking out this
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little overclocking Adventure on the GTX
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550 TI don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and
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other computer videos well I don't have a version of afterburner yet that
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supports over volting on the GTX 550 but
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2.1.0 does support at least changing the clock speeds so here's my default clocks
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on the MSI Cyclone 2 version of the GTX
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550 and uh you can see here that uh I've
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already run my stock clock Benchmark so
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I was able to achieve 13 just over 13,000 3D Mark scores in the performance
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mode of 3D Mark Vantage so what I'm going to do is I'm going to tune this
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card into whatever clock I can or whatever clocks I can get out of it and
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see what kind of a performance Improvement we can get by overclocking
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this particular video card I'm not going to be having a look at the reference
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card but something to remember is that the reference card starts 50 MHz lower
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than this particular overclocked card so it may have more overclocking head room
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based on that it starts lower in terms of she how many mehz you can turn it up
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but it probably won't be able to get as high with the cooler that's not as good
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as well as with the absence of the heat
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sink on the vrm