Introduction

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti with Boost has been on the market for a few weeks now and was received with very positive reviews. NVIDIA's latest card provides a significant performance improvement over the GTX 650 Ti thanks to the added Boost algorithm. Performance is slightly higher than AMD's HD 7850 with very competitive pricing.



MSI's GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost TwinFrozr Gaming uses the company's famous TwinFrozr cooling solution on a custom board design. Clock speeds have received a 50 MHz bump while memory clock remains unchanged.

MSI is asking a $5 price premium for their card, which seems quite reasonable.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + documentation
• DVI adapter
• PCI-Express power cable

The Card

The MSI GTX 650 Ti Boost Gaming uses a cooler we've seen on a wide range of cards from MSI. The card is 23 cm long and 11 cm high.


Installing the card requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two DVI ports, one HDMI port, and one DisplayPort. You may use all outputs at the same time, so triple-monitor surround gaming is possible with one card.

The GPU also includes an HDMI sound device. It is HDMI 1.4a compatible, which includes HD audio and Blu-ray 3D movies support.


A single SLI connector is available, which would allow you to combine up to two GTX 650 Ti Boost cards in a multi-GPU configuration.


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