MSI GeForce GTX 760 HAWK Review
Published by Christian Ney on 25.09.13Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| The MSI GeForce GTX 760 HAWK is a really nice piece of hardware.
At the end of the journey, the baby lightning showed to be flawless.
Being one of the highest clocked card out of the box on the market sure help
but that's not all of it. The oversized Twin Frozr IV Advanced cooler
makes the card also very silent and cool. In addition,
the card comes well equipped also regarding the power design that has
been beefed up and the overclocking features which make it
LN2-ready almost out of the box. One word about the bundle, the latter is good with more accessories you usually get with a graphics card. |
- Factory Overclocking
- Performance - Cooling - Power Design - Overclocking features - Design |
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| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| Here you clearly see that a manufacturers lazyness can sometimes
be good for the end user. Unlike ASUS, for example, who is reworking (downscaling)
its DirectCU II cooler for lower end cards, MSI just took the full Twin
Frozr IV Advanced cooler, made a slight change and put it on the GTX 760
et voilà! As a result, you have an oversized cooler on a graphics card that doesn't need much cooling and you see it well. In idle, the temperature of the GPU was the same as the room temp. Under heavy FurMark load, the GPU was between 10 and 20°C cooler than with the other cards we tested, which is quite an impressive result. No surprise with the fans in auto too, after playing BattleField 3 for an hour the maximum temperature hit by the GPU was 64°C. In this case the maximum fan speed was as low as 43%, translated it means a noise level of about 33.0 dBA (noiseless). |
- Cooling performance
- Noise levels |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| The 760 HAWK is fast. With 1'241 MHz on the speedometer the HAWK
outperforms the stock GTX 760 by 12.6 % on average. Too bad MSI
didn't release its card
with the memory overclocked out of the box, we would have liked to see it
closing in on the GTX 770. A closer look at power consumption shows, that our test system, equipped with the GTX 760 HAWK, burns 46 Watts under idle conditions and 192 Watts under load. Both results are very good, especially under load. |
- Performance/Watt
- Power consumption |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| With a starting price of 247 Euros excluding shipping costs accross the EU, the HAWK isn't really cheap. That's about 40 Euros on top of the cheapest 760 and 20 Euros more expensive than the DirectCU II OC from ASUS for example. But considering what you get with the HAWK we think that's a deal. So if you are looking for one of the strongest GTX 760 out there, then you can go for the HAWK eyes closed. |
- Gaming
- Extreme Overclocking |
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| We gave the GeForce GTX 760 HAWK from MSI 5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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