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ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DCII TOP Included Software
Brands like ASU or MSI always ship their cards with special software for monitoring and overclocking; this time is not an exception. Once you install the drivers from the CD (or download them from the Nvidia Forceware page) you'll be able to install ASUS utilities if you find them attractive. ASUS includes Gamer OSD, which helps to capture, broadcast and save movies or screenshots from every game. As you can see, there's a maximum 720x480 capture size, and the frame rate can be increased up to 30 FPS. While the broadcasting solution sounds interesting I don't think I'll want to add this processing to my whole computer when gaming in a competition or something. It could be useful if you're working as referee or spectator though
ASUS SmartDoctor is an application to monitor and overclock your GPU. I must admit I still prefer MSI Afterburner, since it's got more options and controls to use, but SMART doctor works for basic overclocking too. One important thing is that this application ensures voltage tweaking support, at least until your favorite software adds support to the GPU model in your hands. Only 3 variables can be moved in SmartDoctor: Memory frequency, GPU Core Frequency (Engine), and Vcore voltage. Vcore can be increased from 1025mV to 1150mV, which is the same MSI Afterburner allows. Unluckily, there's no option to decrease GPU voltage, so that's a bad point. Overall, the software still looks like a BETA version and the GUI is not as good or sleek as I'd like it to be, but it does it's work.
Perhaps one of the most interesting settings from the SmartDoctor utility is the fan control, which allows you to set different fan speeds depending on your GPU temperature, but the rest of the settings are not very impressive as I thought.
When you install and power up your GPU, there will be a pair of LEDs at the back side of the PCB which will turn green if everything is working alright, or they'll change to red of something fails. For example, I intentionally didn't plug a PCI-e PSU connector and the LEDs immediately went red.
It's time to put this card into some serious tests. Well, Benchmark is our first name, so don't worry. Let's start off with a complete description of the Video Card Testing Methodology.
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Comments
(be back after I read this)
Shame, I like ASUS normally.
Hope this helps, I have this card and it's plain awesome :D
wtf do you really expect?
a new gpu and mem with the same name on the card?
it is the same card with a new bios and higher clocks no TOP written anywhere but the packaging
hmmm how can we sell the left over stock and still make a prophet
My PC is amazing, bet it is better than yours.
I do have a major headache though. When I run CPU-Z or ASUS smart doctor, it says the GPU clock is only running at 830MHz and the shader at 1660MHz.
Anyone knows if it will underclock itself in idle mode?
I am getting desperate because it IS the ?TOP? version of the card. And I can?t find an answer anywhere.
I haven?t had the time to test if with furmark or anything like that.
I really hope that?s the case with this card as well!
I haven?t been able to find that info anywhere else.......
I was really bumbed out, because it seemed like I payed for the "TOP" version of the card, but only got the stock one.
But I don?t get it, if that?s the case. Why do they even make a "top" version of the card?
If the stock version will overclock itself as well.
So the card I received is the stock version, even though the box says "TOP"
In idle mode it should underclock far more than that.
35% fan speed: inaudible
40%: humming
50%: high pitch humming/whining
65-100%: HIGH PITCHED SCREAMING
Got a Gigabyte OC card instead. 900mhz also. Don't hear it untill 60% and even then it's just an air-noise as opposed to screeching and whining
-low temp in idle and not impressing temp in full or stress i expected lower because of my case antec 900
-with my e8500 proc i'm pleased by her performance
-is relatively easy to clean her of dust
-as usual the case of this vidcard cannot be removed for a better cleanup
-it not inspire me a solid construction because the pipes are not rigidized with card enough at jonction with uppercooler