Today we will be looking at a 1GB Radeon HD 6950 from MSI sporting its latest cooling innovation, the Twin Frozr III. Will 1GB of VRAM constrain the Twin Frozr III, or will Triple Over-Voltage support give it enough boost to soar past a 2GB HD 6950 and GeForce GTX 570?

Microstar International (MSI) is a Taiwan-based computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1986. Primarily a designer and manufacturer of PC motherboards, MSI has expanded its business into barebones PCs, servers and workstations, communications devices, consumer electronics, Notebooks, Netbooks, graphics cards, and other various electronic products. Its company motto, “Quality Products Create Faithful Customer,” believes its underlying corporate strategy of designing and manufacturing quality devices for various markets and letting its high-quality reputation earn it the trust and respect of electronics consumers worldwide.

Today we are looking at the brand new MSI R6950 1GB Twin Frozr III Power Edition video card. The Twin Frozr II cooling system has had great success in the past, and we have high hopes that the Twin Frozr III will as well. With the debut of MSI’s Twin Frozr III Cooling system and Triple Over-Voltage support working hand in hand with Tier 1 components, this card is definitely built around achieving the greatest possible overclock.

AMD launched the Radeon HD 6950 on December 14, 2010, alongside the Radeon HD 6970. The Radeon HD 6900 series of GPUs sports AMD’s VLIW4 architecture, which is different from the 6800 series’ VLIW5 architecture. It features a greater degree of parallelism in its processing engine. VLIW4 was implemented in order to increase both efficiency and performance in its streaming processors.

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