Final words and conclusion
Final words and conclusion
So yeah, another interesting product from MSI. It is certainly surprising to see what happened to MSI in the past two years, their sales increased incredibly as well as their market share here in Europe. It is a combination of many factors, a strong R&D and marketing department, improved product quality and of course features. Features such as the added overclock potential with MSI AfterBurner and of course options like the Twin Frozr II cooler, which admittedly does the job well.
The R6950 remains what it is though, it's a a great product yet lacks here in there in performance, and that's all to the updated micro architecture of the GPU. Anyway, overclock it a little and you can squeeze another 10% performance out of the product that already offers pretty good bang for buck.
Now one point we have to mention - with the first revision of the reference models you could flash in a R6970 BIOS into a R6950 graphics card, and get extra shader processors enabled. That trick won't work here as this card is not reference. However, we do wonder a little what would happen if you'd flash an MSI R6970 Twin Frozr II BIOS into this product ;)
Anyway, the R6950 Twin Frozr II will address the market at an estimated price of roughly 269 EUR, prices recently have been lowered a little and with the GTX 560 Ti being released real soon that price drop might extend even a little further. And that certainly is a lot of value for money, especially with a card as tested today, which looks great, performs good, is tweakable and has a cooler that matches the actual card.
So overall we feel that the R6950 Twin Frozr II OC edition is a very nice product if you can pick it up for the right price. Let's not forget, noise levels are good, power consumption is impressive and your gaming experience will run up-to 19290x1200 really well with the very best image quality settings. As such the product comes very much recommended.
Though the one tip we like to hand out to MSI -- factory overclock the product higher. Slapping OC on the box and then increasing the core frequency by merely 10 MHz, well that's illogical. Other than that there's very little we can critique on with the R6950 Twin Frozr II OC graphics card, at 269 EUR it's just an appealing graphics card for the money alright.
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