MSI GeForce GTX 560 Hawk Overclocking Performance Test Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so here on the screen I have my 3D Mark 11 results with the GTX 560 Hawk
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featuring the twin frozer 3 cooler twin
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frozer 3 there's the logo thing so
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that's with the Dual 80 mil fans you can see the hawk logo on the PCB down there
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zoom zoom zoom there it is all right MSI
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Haw okay so uh basically the max
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overclock I was able to achieve on this particular card going to use my manual
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brightness settings there we are you can actually read that now so I was able to
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turn up not only the core voltage but also the memory voltage and auxiliary
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voltage because of the non reference Hawk PCB so I was able to get my core
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clock up past 1 gz now I was able to run
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benchmarks higher than this up to about uh 1.05 GHz but this was what I found to
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be 24/7 stable okay without temperatures
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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
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Shader clock is obviously locked to the core clock as with most of the uh recent
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generation NVIDIA cards memory clock you know what doesn't have a huge impact on
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performance but this is as high as I was able to get stable like I said very
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little impact on performance though it's all about the core clock on this
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particular card so now what I'm going to do is I actually never even ran the
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Benchmark um at the
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reference clock speed so I will go ahead and run it at reference clock speeds
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which actually aren't that much lower remember this card is overclocked to 950
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MHz out of the box and I will find out how much of a performance Improvement we
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got from overclocking the graphics card okay so there's clearly not much
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improvement in performance to be had by overclocking the GTX 560 Hawk Edition
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card from MSI but there are definitely
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some advantages to it so there's the fact that it doesn't cost that much more
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than the regular GTX 560 twin frozer 2
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there's also the fact that it has a better PCB which includes I mean among
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other things okay we've got the V check points which are here we've also got the
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um where is it the what is this the oh
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yeah we've got the uh different profiles for the fans so you can go to Performance mode or silent mode for the
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fans we've got this rigidity plate for
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the PCB itself to keep it from flexing when it's installed in your case which
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the regular twin frozer 2 does not one of the other improvements they've made
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to the PCB design is also the fact that the PCIe plugs come out the top of the
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card rather than the back of the card which means that the overall length of
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it is a little bit less you can see the twin frozer 2 whoa it fell that's no
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good uh overhangs the PCB a little bit whereas here it does not the twin frozer
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3 does not do that you get the propeller
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style fans rather than the more traditional SW blade fans
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and yeah and then you get the factory overclock so since you can't push it
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that much over the factory overclock that's pretty much to be expected we're
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pretty close to the limits of a GTX 560 GPU you still get that factory overclock
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which is significantly more than the 560 TI twin frozer 2 which in spite of the
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covered up Hawk that's down there on the PCB cuz it's the same PCB as the GTX 460
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Hawk this is a true 560 Hawk not just
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with a twin frozer cooler on it so thank you for checking out my little
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overclocking Adventure on the GTX 560
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