Sentry Safes

I recently purchased an EVGA GTX 660 after reading good reviews about it. I was very impressed with the results, and noticed a massive improvement over my PNY GTX 550 Ti 1GB. I used my GTX 550 Ti for a build I was working on, and was disappointed with the temps I was reaching and the inability to play newer games on higher settings. I enjoy tinkering with stuff a bit and most of the reviews I've read show the new Kepler powered GTX 650 ti is a pretty capable card, so I figured why not give it a shot.

First I will point out, this card uses way less power than the Fermi based GTX 550 ti. About 40W less power, which is significant considering theirs also a big boost in performance. Another key advantage is this card is much smaller, about 2.5 inches less in length. It's surprising because the next step up in the GTX 600 series is the 660, and that card is about 2 inches longer than the 550 ti, or nearly 4 inches longer than the 650 ti. This makes the 650 ti ideal for... Read more

Let me start out by saying, I have owned several video cards, most by EVGA since they are in my opinion the best board partner to NVIDIA. The card I owned previous to installing this one was the GTX 550 Ti 1GB FPB edition by EVGA and honestly never had any issues with it however I had seen in some benchmarks that the 650 Ti nearly doubled its performance and was even smaller in form factor when compared to the 550 Ti. I have tried countless games on my new 650 Ti SSC 1GB, Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, and Max Payne 3, 3 graphic intensive games. It succeeded in all 3 of them on medium settings pushing out a whopping 44-61 FPS. On high I got about 32-47 FPS but keep in mind this board is extremely affordable compared to better performing boards on the market such as the GTX 680 Ti. Even if you are getting 44 FPS minimum on a game like battlefield, you are still getting more FPS than its console version which is capped at 30FPS. Also, Even on Medium, Battlefield 3 looks gorgeous... Read more

I bought this card to replace a GTX 550 TI 1Gig.
Most people wouldn't do that as this is the replacement for that card anyway
but the performance kick (without running any benchmarks)is definitely noticeable.
With an extra Gig of memory as well as the superclocking you can really tell. Very
smooth and quick a very good mid range card. The half size construction and lower power usage/requirement
than the 550 TI were nice as well.