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MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk Video Card Review

Microstar's latest Hawk video card is here, packing a highly overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Can its enhanced PCB and cooler fend off the Radeon HD 6950's falling prices? Does it actually offer anything over a standard GeForce GTX 560 Ti? The end results are incredible and price drops have completely changed the landscape.

Introduction

Microstar International (MSI) is a Taiwan-based computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1986. Primarily a designer and manufacturer of PC motherboards, MSI has expanded its business into barebones PCs, servers and workstations, communications devices, consumer electronics, Notebooks, Netbooks, graphics cards, and other various electronic products. Its company motto, "Quality Products Create Faithful Customer," belies its underlying corporate strategy of designing and manufacturing quality devices for various markets and letting its high-quality reputation earn it the trust and respect of electronics consumers worldwide.

Today, we’re taking a close look at MSI’s N560GTX-Ti Hawk video card. It features a highly overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU fitted with a custom aftermarket cooling device and 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 560 Ti video card on January 25th, 2011. The "Ti" stands for "titanium," a strong and light metal often used in the aerospace industry. The GTX 560 Ti lands in NVIDIA's "sweet spot," which it say is the ~$250 USD video card market. The GPU features 384 CUDA cores clocked at 1644MHz divided into eight streaming multiprocessors, 64 texture units and 32 ROPs clocked at 822MHz configured as two graphics processing clusters. It has a 256-bit memory bus and comes equipped with 1024MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4008MHz. It boasts a maximum theoretical memory bandwidth of 128.3GB per second and a bilinear texture filter rate of 52.6 billion texels per second.

It was built on a 40nm process and features 1.95 billion transistors. This dual-slot video card requires the use of two 6-pin power connectors. It is designed to pull a maximum of 170 Watts of power for a thermal threshold of 100 degrees Celsius. It has two dual-link DVI-I connectors and one Mini-HDMI port standard.

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S107 rc : Blade mCX2 RTF Features 100% factory assembled, test flown and ready to fly right from the box Precision swashplate with user-selectable control settings Factory installed 5-in-1 control unit with Spektrum 2.4GHz DSM2 compatible receiver, main motor ESCs, mixer , gyro and fully-proportional servos Sleek new body and flashing LED lights Coaxial, counter-rotating rotor head design

So, I ordered this a while back because I had an mcx and msr, and I wanted an inbetween for inside the house.

This has fast forward flight, a super-stable hover, and the little l.e.d.s they added are a nice touch. It’s definitely something a beginner can fly, even younger children with a little supervision to start.

I compared the parts/frame of the mcx2 to the mcx and they look pretty much identical, the servo arms have a little “C” in the middle of them, I think that might give them a little more durability, other than that I couldn’t really see anything else. (mcx2 5in1 has led plug) That being said the mcx2 feels like it’s maintained it’s hover “integrity”, if you will, through more crashes. Have yet to really smash this, but I’ve bounced it off a few walls and whatnot, and nothing has broken.

I have noticed the flybar can pop off at impact, I’m not sure if this was done on purpose since the attached flybar would occasionally bust on the original mcx.

The mcx2 is a little faster in forward flight than the mcx1 if you switch the servos to the longer balls on the swashplate, also there’s an optional (sold seperately) tail with weight sold for the mcx2 that can replace the current tail that makes it a little more maneuverable.

Other than that, it looks a little sharper than the mcx1, it’s got a little white on the blades, the canopy is a little nicer (and clear), it’s got the flashing l.e.d.s for flying in the dark. It comes with the same 1 pack charger as my mcx1 came with, with a slight update, this one has the option to hook it up with a wall charger (sold seperately) vs the mcx1′s single cell charger was battery-only.

Overall, great first heli, lots of fun to fly, anyone can fly it, if you don’t have an mcx1 yet, definitely get this one instead! If you’ve got an mcx1… eh, it’s fun but not really worth the upgrade cost.

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