Club 3D GeForce GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream 2GB

VGA Mainstream with Extra Large Capacity Memory - NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti which was released some time ago can be said to be a graphics card NVIDIA GTX 500 cheapest desktop which can still be relied upon to run the game smoothly. With the lowest price range of U.S. $ 149 at launch, NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti is targeted for gamers who play games at settings 1650 × 1080 with 4x Anti-Aliasing. One of the interesting things is the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti does not need a super fast system to issue fully so that the performance of a gaming system at an affordable price is not impossible can be realized.

Technically, the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti uses the same GPU chip by chip NVIDIA GTS 450. However, NVIDIA has done up to the level of optimization of the transistor so that the chip on the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti has a performance / Watt better than NVIDIA's chip on the GTS 450. The result, NVIDIA GTX 550 graphics card NVIDIA Ti be the highest default clock of 900 MHz.

When first released, manufacturers of graphics cards were immediately released NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti various non-reference, no longer a reference version first and then non-reference version. One who does that is Club 3D products which we will review times in, i the Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream. Products that come from European manufacturers are offering something different than the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti we have reviewed previously, namely extra-large memory capacity of 2GB. Want to know how the performance of the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti if it has a memory of 2GB? Continues to this article Listen to the last punctuation mark.

As we have mentioned before, Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream has twice the memory capacity of more than NVIDIA's GTX 550 Ti in general, that is equal to 2GB. Not only complement these products with larger memory capacity, Club 3D also raised the GPU clock from 900 MHz to 920 MHz. While the memory clock is allowed by default.


NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti Feature

Microsoft DirectX 11.
NVIDIA 3DVision.
NVIDIA SLI.
NVIDIA PhysX.
NVIDIA CUDA.
NVIDIA PureVideo HD.
32x Anti-Aliasing.
PCI Express 2.0.
Dual-link DVI.
HDMI 1.4a.

Sales package that came with the graphics card consists of:

Quick Installation Guide.
Driver Disc.

Quite unfortunately, in the sales package that we received not one converters included display power cable or converter. This certainly can be difficult for users who need the converter when using this graphics card.

This is a form of graphic card Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream. This graphics card is equipped with a non-reference HSF reference PCB but with different colors, dark blue. Heatpipe HSF is not equipped and do not have direct contact with memory chips.

HSF Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream fan is equipped with nine 92 mm diameter fruit fan blades. To measure the temperature of this graphics card work, we run the application Unigine Heaven 2.1 and get a result like this.

Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream

Full-load: 73 ° C (fan speed: Auto @ 46%)
Idle: 32 ° C (fan speed: Auto @ 41%)

In the area of ​​VRM components, seen some of the components used graphics cards such as solid capacitors and choke. Seen this area is also left as is without any additional passive heatsink. Club 3D GTX 550 OC Ti Cool Stream has a PCIe power connector 6-pin. Prepare the power supply with minimum power output of 400 Watt to be able to use this graphics card. Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream PCIe connector comes standard Ti NVIDIA GTX 550 PCI Express x16 version is 2.0. PCI Express x16 version 2.0 is able to provide bandwidth of 64 Gbps for the graphics card. A connector for SLI multi-GPU Configuration 2-way SLI using, maximum, two NVIDIA GTX 560.

Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream comes standard display connector NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti which consists of:

2x Dual-link DVI-I connector
1x mini-HDMI connector

Conclusion

Game Metro 2033 is a game that quite voracious memory graphics card. In this game, Club 3D GTX 550 OC Ti Cool Stream Edition with 2GB memory capacity, a performance about 17% faster than NVIDIA's GTX 550 Ti with a memory capacity of 1GB. The opposite took place in other testing, performance improvement that occurred not too significant that only about 2% and it seems that the performance improvement is mainly due to the graphics card is using a higher GPU clock.

If the games you play quite memory hungry graphics card, Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream with a memory capacity of 2GB is a pretty attractive option. But if you are not the type of game like that, the 1GB version considered to be sufficient. Besides the 1GB version usually has a cheaper price.

Overall we were quite satisfied with the products offered by Club 3D this time. Considered satisfactory overall performance even though we think 1GB is enough memory capacity for Ti NVIDIA GTX 550 to run a variety of the latest games smoothly. In addition, if included in sales package converters and converter display power cable, users who need these converters would be more fun than having to buy it separately.

Excess

2GB memory capacity.
Tighten the image resolution below 1920 × 1080.

Shortage

Converters are not included display power cable or converter.

Club 3D GTX 550 OC Edition Ti Cool Stream

Manufacturer: Club 3D
Info: www.club-3d.com
Price:
Indonesia Distributor: AMTEC
Phone: (021) 3000 5417

Club 3D GeForce GTX 550 OC Edition  TECHNICAL DATA:

Chip: NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti
Interface: PCI Express 2.0 x16
Memory Size: 2048 KB
Core Clock: 920 MHz
Shader Clock: 1840 MHz
Memory Clock: 4104 MHz
Stream Processors: 192
D-Sub Output: No
DVI Output: Yes (2 fruit)
HDMI Output: Yes (mini HDMI)
Display Port Output: None
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Interface: 192-bit
Equipment: Quick Installation Guide and Driver Disc.