Review: Overclocking the GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Test Platform

The following hardware combination was used in our test. Scores from other graphics card are also included in the final charts for comparison purposes.

• Processor : Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
• Motherboard : Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• Graphics Card : NVIDIA GTX 500 & GTX 400 Series; AMD Radeon HD 6000 & HD 5700 Series
• Memory : 3×2GB Kingston HyperX blu. (@1600 MHz; 1.64 V)
• Storage : Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64 GB & SSDNow V Series 30 GB (no-RAID Configuration)
• Power Supply : Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 800 Watt
• Heatsink : Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
• Monitor : Philips 221E
• Input Devices : Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
• Driver : Forceware 266.58, 266.66(NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti), 267.59(NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti); Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix

Test Results

Synthetic Benchmark

3DMark Vantage

Setting : P-Rating (Default); No-PPU

3DMark 11

Setting : Performance Preset

Unigine Heaven 2.1

Setting: DirectX 11; High; AF x16, No-AA