MSI has put a serious amount of effort into increasing their exposure within the gaming community. Their Z68 motherboards were among the first to include support for PCI-E 3.0, the GTX 580 Lightning and follow up Lightning Extreme Edition were two of the most impressive cards we reviewed all year and their notebooks continue to [...]

The launch of the new GTX 560 Ti 448 today I think is a prime example of why NVIDIA does so well in the video card market. You just have to look at the current release schedule of games, or the games that have just recently been released and know that we’re going to have [...]

In the graphics card industry traditionally it has been the case that having the fastest product gave a company good PR which trickled down from enthusiasts to mainstream and then budget consumers. The thought of having something which was similar to the best available was always attractive but times have changed a little. With the [...]

With the all-important winter shopping season around the corner, NVIDIA wants to fortify its “Sweet Spot” segment. This segment consists of graphics cards with good price-performance ratios, that gamers making far-sighted buying decisions end up choosing. Presenting the all-new GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 CUDA cores. GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores will not [...]

Today NVIDIA and its partners are announcing availability of a new graphics card that bridges the gap between the $230 GTX 560 Ti and the $330 GTX 570 currently on the market. The new card promises to offer performance right between those two units with a price to match but with a catch: it is [...]

Can anyone remember the last time either of the two big players introduced a new graphics card? If you think back far enough, you’ll remember it was NVIDIA with their GTX 560 (non-Ti) that was first glimpsed back in May of this year. Since then we have seen our fair share of manufacturer designed cards [...]

Leading global motherboard and graphics card maker MSI today announces the release of the N560GTX-448 Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC and N560GTX-448 Twin Frozr III Power Edition graphics cards. The two graphics cards feature the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti chipset with 448 CUDA cores and 1280MB of 320-bit GDDR5 high-speed graphics memory. The N560GTX-448 [...]

For our second GeForce GTX 560 448 core review we have a peek at MSI’s finest offering. Just in time to make this article they finalized their GeForce GTX 560 448 Power OC edition. As the name suggests, the card is factory overclocked. It doesn’t stop there though as the card comes with a custom [...]

After testing two top-end graphics cards from Gigabyte and EVGA based on the Nvidia GF110 processor, we’ve got yet another same-class product to check out. This is the MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition that was announced back in summer at Computex 2011. Before the announcement MSI offered an ordinary N580GTX Lightning but the Xtreme Edition [...]

Chinese company Yeston released a new Radeon HD 6790 graphics card for gamers on a tight budget. It makes use of cost-effective cooler and PCB designs to make itself available at a price-point of 799 RMB (about $125). The familiar-looking cooler borrows its design from the likes of MSI Cyclone. It consists of a copper-plate [...]

With next generation graphics architectures still a good ways off, we’ve seen a steady stream of manufacturers introducing custom versions of current GPUs. Unfortunately these cards are meant as flagship products that make a bold statement so they are usually reserved for certain well-heeled consumers. This has led MSI, ASUS, Zotac and many others to [...]

Today MSI has given us an opportunity to check out their Twin Frozr III 6950 1GB. What makes this a bit different from other 6950′s are the 1GB of memory and MSI’s Twin Frozr III cooler which make claims of ~14 dB quieter and 11 °C temperature differences over reference cooled models. It is also [...]

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 [...]

MSI, has released N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5 and N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5/OC with double memory. In both a standard and an OC edtion the N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5 series cards feature double the memory for better HD gaming. Claiming 20°C better cooling than conventional card, along with a 25% Overclocking Potential boost [...]

The Radeon HD 6950 often gets overlooked, because it falls into an in-between netherworld of pricing. Typical cards cost anywhere from $240-$300, but most seem to hover around the $270 mark. This MSI overclocked card, built using the company’s Twin Frozr III dual-fan cooler, sits at around $280. So high-end buyers overlook this price category [...]

A few months ago I took a look at the MSI R6850 Cyclone PE / OC graphics card, a very solid mid-range card that sold for just under $180 at the time of writing. Today we will be taking a look at the ASUS GTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics card, an Nvidia-based Fermi GPU [...]

Packing a GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPU each, we have a pair of N550GTX-Ti Cyclone II video cards that we are going to evaluate against a Radeon HD 6950, GeForce GTX 570 and even an overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti. At a total cost of only $260 we will find out if this dual-GTX 550 [...]

NVIDIA saw its share in the discrete notebook graphics card market edge up 8.9pp to 50.6% in the second quarter of 2011, with the ratio likely to continue to move up in the third quarter as Asustek Computer, Clevo and Micro-Star International (MSI) are scheduled to launch more GeForce 500M-based notebooks soon, according to industry [...]

Gigabyte is best known for its blue motherboards, undoubtedly some of the best in the business, however depending on where you live you will have noticed these days they offer a multitude of other products from mobile phones to computer mice. Their graphics card division has emerged as a top contender in recent years, whether [...]

The HD 6670 is a bit of a funny model for us. Normally it’s the kind of model we’d look at once when it launches and then not pay too much attention to it since our launch coverage would cover pretty much all you need to know about it. A little later on, we saw [...]