MSI GTX 760 Gaming MINI-ITX Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 31.01.14Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Overall MSI did a great job with their compact GTX 760 MINI-ITX
graphics card. Since this is one of the new MSI Gaming Series products,
it features a black and red color scheme, which MSI managed to nail
perfectly. Although small, the cooler is able to cope with the heat generated by the GK104 GPU but unfortunately at a rather high cost, as it is a bit noisier than what we are used to from MSI's Twin Frozr coolers. |
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Cooling - Design - Compact form factor |
- Bundle | |
| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| The GPU temperatures were good with a maximum of 79°C under
heavy FurMark load with the fan at auto (32%). It would have been great
if the card was inaudible under these circumstances, but frankly
speaking, this is virtually impossible to achieve with such a small
cooler. In the end, the MSI GTX 760 MINI-ITX Gaming comes with a cooler that does a really good job for its size. |
- Cooling performance | ||
| Performance | + | - | |
| Thanks to a factory overclock and a really decent cooler design,
the MSI GTX 760 MINI-ITX is on average 5% faster than the reference card
from Nvidia in tested games. In order to achieve this results, cooler
maintains a temperature that is always below 80°C and at that
temperature, clock speeds were at 1'162 MHz. A closer look at the power consumption reveals that better results should have been achieved. Compared to other models we tested, the card draws significantly more power, especially under load, which is related to a rather high overclocking. |
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Performance/Watt - Power consumption |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| Overall the MSI GTX 760 MINI-ITX comes with a rather high typical boost clock, which gives you quite some extra performance. Other than that it also features an efficient cooler and when it comes to the price, MSI is asking about 40 Euro more than you would have to pay for a reference GTX 760. The 40 Euro premium is definitely not nothing, but it is in line with offers from competitors. If you are thinking about building a mini-ITX gaming PC and you want to go with components from MSI, then this is definitely the graphics card you want to buy. | - Gaming - MiniITX |
- Silent PC | |
| We gave the MSI GTX 760 MINI-ITX 3.5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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