MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC Graphics Cards N760 TF 2GD5/OC

After 5-6 years since my trusty 8800GT, I was due for an upgrade. For reference, here are my specs:ASRock H77M mATXIntel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2 GHz (turbo 3.6 GHz)MSI N760 OC 2 GB8 GB Crucial Ballistix SportNow let's get to it!Performance:Rest assured, the card absolutely muscles through last gen games like Batman: Arkham City at 1080p with 60 FPS. No sweat. However, next gen games like Assassin's Creed IV really stress the card, but still surprisingly pulls through. With every setting maxed out (except shadows [very high] and AA [SSAA]), the card coasts at 60 FPS at 1080p. Increasing the AA to NVIDIA's new TXAAx2 technology hurts the framerate, but is still a very playable 40-50 FPS.Overclocking:This card comes factory overclocked, which means the GPU core is overclocked to 1020 MHz. The memory core is still the default at the effective speed of 6 GHz. While I have not tried manually overclocking yet, using MSI's software to automatically overclock gives me a GPU core clock of 1090 MHz and with GPU boost, I get a real world clock of 1202 MHz in game! And that's by clicking one button! Most articles I've read say that the the GTX 760 handle overclocking quite well, though how much real world benefit you can is subjective. With the modest overclock I got from the MSI application, I got about an increase of 2-3 FPS, which in the case of ACIV, was much appreciated.While MSI Afterburner is free, it should still be noted that it is an absolutely fantastic piece of software to monitor various aspects of your card as well as overclocking it. If you are interesting in harnessing the power for the GTX 760, this is a great primer: [...]l.Aftermarket cooler (TwinFrozr IV):Despite the somewhat corny name, the TwinFrozr is one of the best parts of this card. The cooling solution keeps the temperatures low (~25 C idle and high of ~65 C full load @ 1090 MHz), yet surprisingly silent as well. Additionally, the military class components means that all the overclocking will not outright kill your graphics card. Always a good thing! However, you must note that there is not heatsink to the memory module at the back of the card, so be careful overclocking those memory cores.Performance vs Price:As of December 2013/January 2014, the midrange offerings by NVIDIA and AMD are the GTX 760 and R9 270/270X, respectively. While the R9 270 is priced competitively in the $170 sweet spot (effectively outpricing its older brother the R9 270X), the GTX 760 sits around the $250 spot. However, performance-wise the GTX 760 edges out its counterpart mainly due to additional Texture Mapping Units and memory bandwidths. However, if price is a sticking point, I would suggest an overclocked version of AMD R9 270. However, for the performance that this particular card offers, you will be hard pressed to find a better card at the price point.Power consumption:The GTX 760 is very efficient and I read somewhere that under full load this MSI N760 consumes less wattage while also keeping the temps low compared to the similar manufacturers like Gigabyte, Asus, etc.And there you have it! A fantastic card at a fantastic price! If you've been looking to upgrade your system for a while, the MSI N760 OC Gaming should definitely be up there. If you are more interested in maximum performance, you might want to check out the more expensive MSI N760 HAWK for its overclocking capabilities and features (for $10 more). With the GTX 770 being about $80-$100 more, you can't beat the GTX 760. When overclocked to it's potential, it handily beats out the the Radeon HD7950 and GTX 660 Ti, even edging the HD7970 and GTX 670. That's pretty darn impressive.Bottom line: As of now, if you are looking for a midrange card for all your 1080p gaming needs, MSI N760 has the performance per price you want.

NOTE: I bought this when it came out and cost $249.99. Since then, they have increased the price of this specific model by more than 10%. This review is written based on the old price.I came from a GTX 560 Ti and have always valued price / performance. After doing research on the GTX 760, I came to the conclusion that the MSI model was what I was looking for. Most notably, it had the lowest power consumption, significantly lower fan noise, much lower temperatures than reference, as well as high clocks and still some overclocking headroom. All this while having the same price tag as the rest.At 1920x1080, it runs almost every game at max settings at above 60 fps, much of the time over 100. CS:GO and most of Valve's Source engine games run at 300 fps. Black Ops 2 is always in the 130-140 fps range. Battlefield 4 32p multiplayer on ultra settings (with MSAA off, since it murders frame rate in BF3/4 regardless of the card you have) is almost always above 70 fps, dropping one or two settings to high lets it run 80-90+ at most times. The only game it struggled with was Metro: Last Light, but turning down the graphics settings one notch resulted in 60 fps.Besides that, there was a very slight coil whine with the card in the first month of use, but quickly went away. This happens with every card but to different extents so I do not rate it negatively for that.

Card 5 stars - MSI 1 starCard install was no problem. Loved the GeForce experience compared to previous experience with ATI software. Relatively quiet. Good card for Metro: Last Light at 1920 X 1020 and very high settings.MSI customer experience not great. Just missed a game bundle by a couple of days by waiting until Cyber Monday. Supposed to have a $10 rebate but MSI failed to deliver. To qualify you have to register on their website to be able to print a form that has to be mailed in along with UPC code from box plus copy of invoice. If you want if quicker than 60-90 days it costs you $1 from your rebate. After mailing in form and all required info I received an email that said to supply even more information. What a bunch of BS. I you like the card and the price buy it but forget about any special offers from MSI.

great card and it's fast too boot but the first two i purchased was refurbished and one was doa and the other craped out after a hour or so msi you really need to check things out before sending them back out but the second two are running great and cool and silent they really do better fps then a titan

Bought this off of Amazon Warehouse Deals. It was shipped fast, and the packaging/card itself appeared to be handled gently. I have a 750w gold rated power supply, and have been building computers for over 8 years now. This card when installed, and drivers updated would produce a blue swirl on my screen, which rendered the card worthless for even everyday tasks. I tried re-installing windows 7, tried installing it in my friend's computer, and tried older drivers, nothing worked. I thought that warehouse deals were inspected, and verified to work before being sold, but apparently not.The only good thing about this purchase was the paid return shipping, and hassle-free refund. For these things alone I will continue shopping with Amazon.

Great performance for an awesome price, but my system has been incredibly unstable since installing this. Random program crashes, blue screens, failures to post... huge bummer. I had 3 month uptime before installing this, now I'm lucky to last two days. I hope some firmware and driver updates roll around soon.